Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire

        How would you feel if you were a slave? Would you like it? Or would you hate it? Would you love your master until the end? Would you even choose to be a slave? These are the questions that the house elf's of Harry Potter #'s 2-7 by J.K. Rowling never got to ask themselves.
        In Harry Potter House elf's are little creatures that work and serve wizard families like slaves. They only wear old pillow cases and things that are really like junk. They are set free when they are presented real cloths. They can't use a wand and they can't leave their family. They work for the same wizard family until the day that they die, the day that the whole wizard family dies (which is very unlikely), or the day that they are set free (which is even more unlikely than the whole wizard family dieing). They get no pay and no vacation. Now, Hermione (one of Harry's friends) is trying to get them basic human rights.
        I think that it's really courageous of Hermione to do this. No one has really ever thought about the elf's before. But you can actually argue her point either way. You could say that they should be free, but you could also say that they should say as slaves.
        For one thing they seem to like work. In fact they seem to love it. When Winky (the house elf of Mr. Crouch in Harry Potter #4) was set free she started bawling her eyes out for weeks. She actually missed working like a dog for her master. And when Dobby (Malfoy's house elf in Harry Potter #2) was offered 10 galleons a week and weekends off, when he started working at Hogwarts he didn't take it. He only took one day a month and 1 galleon a week. Plus, all the house elf's themselves say that it's the elf way to work and that no one should try to change it.
        But on the other side it kind of seems as if the have been brain washed. They now think that being a slave is okay. I'm sure that if they tried freedom, they would love it. In fact, I don't think they have ever had freedom. They just know work. Actually, some have just been born in to it. That's why they love it so much. It's the only thing they have ever known. They are probably scared to go out in the real world with out their masters. And it's because they have no idea what the real world holds for them. Like Dobby, if they just went out there for a change and seed what it was like, they would love it. But of course they are tied to their masters forever.
        At first I thought that the house elf's shouldn't be free. To me it sounded like they loved work. But now that I've typed out all of these reasons, I realize that they should be free. No one should have to live a life of slavery. Even if they are fictional characters. So I have decided to applaud Hermione.
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