It's a really striking far-right turn in the middle of that plot. The House Elves really are being abused, and we see it constantly. Dobby is terrified constantly. Then suddenly, it just stops being anyone's problem and Hermione is a joke.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
I mean, why the fuck did she bring it up at all just to shoot it down? How was that supposed to work? If we want to figure out when she got the brain weasels, that's probably it.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
"Lol at the super-earnest, out-of-touch child trying to end chattel slavery" is a helluva B-plot.
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Replying to @andrewdridgway @arthur_affect and
Yeah, and I mean, it's not like house elves' plight is irrelevant, and Hermione can actually be shown to be wrong. She's obviously right, from the HE's perspective, just it's not done for Wizards.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @andrewdridgway and
The resolution is super weird too. "Oh they actually like being slaves, so we made them *wage slaves* and they just never bother with their money so the banks can do bank things with it and this is good somehow".
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Replying to @Teknogrot @mssilverstein and
They didn't actually do that Dobby and Winky get paid wages, yes, but the en masse emancipation of house elves never happens in the books (and in the closest thing we have to a sequel, Cursed Child, it's never mentioned)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and
Does Winky get paid? I remember it as Dobby specifically demanding wages and time off, then getting freaked out when Dumblemore offered him too much of both and negotiated down to one day off a month and some pocket change. Winky I thought just had the normal room-board deal.
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Replying to @ShieldingC @Teknogrot and
Yeah you're right, I don't think she actually even worked at Hogwarts when we catch up with her after she gets fired by Crouch, the other elves shun her and Dumbledore is just letting her live there
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and
I don't remember her being shunned, but she was totally traumatized by having been liberated and not interested in socializing, and the cute ensemble her master gave her in parting had grease splatters and tears whereas Dobby's cherished oddall garments were all like brand-new.
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Replying to @ShieldingC @arthur_affect and
Her alcoholism means she's not productive, so when she slumps drunkenly unconscious, they look at her in disgust and cover her with a cloth in shame--where they c/d so easily be covering her out of care, putting something under her head, actually *helping* if that's their nature.
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Yeah it describes them as being openly disgusted by her -- a house-elf who's been fired and given clothes is the lowest of the low in their society, they carry shame with them wherever they go They hate Dobby too but they have to tolerate him because he officially works there
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