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Tweak says, "No, I'm ...doesn't!"

Marcus Flint (marcedflint) wrote in finnigans_rpg,
@ 2015-08-11 17:57:00

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[Warded to Purebloods]

Traditions are the backbone of our culture. I would never argue that, and certainly they're part of our history that should be remembered. Sometimes though, traditions are outdated, and we might benefit from discontinuing them.

Specifically, I'm referring to the practice of stuffed house elf heads hanging on the walls. I cannot be the only one who finds this a little ~~creepy~~ strange.

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	the_richard 2015-08-12 02:14 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, pretty strange. Nagging portraits are bad enough. Got a few of those up at the manor. Can't see where having little elf heads on the wall would add to the atmosphere, unless you're going for a Gothic Creepy look. Might as well have the grands and great-grands up there too. Ugh. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	marcedflint 2015-08-12 02:23 am UTC (link)
	~~Don't get me started on the bloody portraits.~~ Portraits of ancestors at least ~~sort of~~ make sense. This just... doesn't seem to. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

the_richard
2015-08-12 04:24 pm UTC (link)

I blame a lot of the weird stuff on how inbred we all are. Nothing brings out the 'eccentrics' like a family tree with too few branches.

Tell the rest of your house elves to deal with the little stuffed heads as they think best since it's a tradition you won't be continuing. Saw the little buggers with knives and clubs at Hogwarts. Wouldn't want to piss them off.

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astoryuntold
2015-08-12 10:19 pm UTC (link)

~~Clearly~~ It really had nothing to do with inbreeding so much as pride. Being proud of having a house elf and a successful house elf lineage serving a proper pure-blood house. They grew too old to carry tea, and something had to be done. It also allowed the house elves to continue to serve a house even when they were incapable of literally serving by providing the house with another piece of them. They were a trophy, a piece of art, prestige, and a symbol. I'm sure you'll just dismiss that as a result of inbreeding, ~~because you strike me as the type to always need to be right~~ but that's just how it was when it was started by Great-Great Aunt Elladora, whose parents were not related closely enough for inbreeding to be a factor (unless you're counting "we're all human" or "we're all humans with magic from the same source" as a factor, which I'm not because that'd just be silly).

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	Marcus the_richard 2015-08-16 11:59 pm UTC (link)
	I rest my case. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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