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Sep 16 2007, 12:21 PM
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Modelling lime-green bowler hats at Madam Malkins


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QUOTE(Professor_Nigellus @ Sep 16 2007, 06:05 PM)  The war is over! Lord Voldemort is dead and the Death Eaters are scrambling for cover. Kreacher no longer has any information for Harry to fear he could take to the dark side, so is there any reason for Harry not to set him free?
Now that Kreacher has come to accept (perhaps even love) his new "master" would he appreciate it if Harry did free him? Would he be willing to work for Harry as a Free Elf, accepting wages, or would he run to Malfoy Mannor to ask to take Dobby's place. Most house elves don't want to be free, and I suspect Kreacher is with the majority. I do think that Harry would give Kreacher the choice of whether to be free or not, but Kreacher's time with the trio at Grimmauld Place seems to have made him loyal to Harry and he would probably refuse, though I think Harry would give Kreacher permission to act freely in any case, if he hadn't already done so in DH - Kreacher's actions in DH such as going to Hogwarts and leading the house elves suggest he has been allowed a lot of freedom in the way he acts.
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Sep 16 2007, 05:39 PM
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Modelling lime-green bowler hats at Madam Malkins


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QUOTE(morgiana @ Sep 16 2007, 10:08 PM)  Since he appears to be happy as he is, Harry will probably let him be. Though I do think Harry would make sure that Kreacher had many of the benefits of freedom even if he wasn't actually free (such as permission to come and go freely, permission not to punish himself, permission to take days off and some money from the household budget, and making sure that instructions were requests, not orders).
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Sep 16 2007, 06:18 PM
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For what it's worth, which is next to nothing, I'm about to publish the first five chapters or so of a post-war fan fic, and Harry will offer Kreacher lifetime employment if he wants it, but he will present Kreacher with clothes. Neither Ginny nor Harry are the type of people to support slavery, but will make sure Kreacher knows he has lifetime employment available -- that they are not cutting him loose.
Kreacher deserves freedom by virtue of being a living, feeling, thinking being. He has also earned it by finding Mundungus Fletcher and leading the Hogwarts elves!
This post has been edited by Tom Bombadil: Sep 16 2007, 06:19 PM
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