Abstract
Is elfin bondage morally justified, or is it as evil as the human institution of slavery? Rowling shows Hermione as a crusader, as an abolitionist. Yet as narrator Rowling does not interject a moral judgment. The reader is left to decide whether Hermione's cause has great merit, is half-cocked, or is somewhere in between.
Repository Citation
James C. Smith,
Harry Potter & the Law: Status, Rules, and the Enslavement of the House-Elves
(2005),
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/fac_artchop/567
Texas Wesleyan Law Review, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Fall 2005), pp. 456-459