house-elves

Updated: June 6, 2025

I fancy that the difference between the feelings with which they and the fishes inspire us is much the same as that between our mental attitude towards hill-men or house-elves, and towards men and women. The spiny lobsters are red. The common lobsters are blue.

Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing - Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men