In J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, house elves “are small humanoid creatures who inhabit large houses belonging to wealthy Wizarding families” (HP Lexicon). House elves are the servants of these Wizarding families and are, for the most part, very loyal to their Wizarding families.
Some house elves even punish themselves when they feel they’ve been disloyal to their Wizarding families, or to anyone who’s been nice to them (such is the case with the Malfoy’s house elf, Dobby, who once banged his head against Harry Potter’s bedroom window in order to punish himself for thinking ill of the Malfoys, and who …read more