Hermione cringed involuntarily at the recounting Viktor gave. "Yeah, I don't think Teddy's cuteness could have saved him if he'd gotten resistant ink all over the place. As it was Harry had to talk me down from the edge of an overly long lecture." Lectures were something Hermione had always been good at and being appointed prefect had helped her to perfect them.
"I have thought about that but there would have to be enough masters out there willing to free their elves or allow their bonded elves to be studied." She sighed and used her fork to move around some of the salad that had been placed before her a little while ago. "Based on some of the responses I received to my question I doubt there would be many willing test subjects."