house elves
Magical household helpers
House elves are small magical creatures in the Harry Potter universe, bound to serve wizarding families with fanatical devotion.
They perform domestic labor—cooking, cleaning, maintaining households—and can only be freed when their master gives them clothing.
The term has escaped the books to describe anyone who cheerfully does thankless household work: I've been a house elf all weekend, scrubbing floors.
- servitudeCompulsory labor under masters
- socksCloth foot coverings
- freedomAbsence of constraint
- bondedFastened or emotionally connected
- kitchenFood preparation room
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house elveswage earners
Paid workforce members
freemen · independent contractors · self-employed · citizens
house elvesdragons
Mythical fire-breathing reptiles
centaurs · phoenixes · giants · werewolves · hippogriffs
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