House Elf's

Harry Potter Had just finished another "Detention" Read: Torture session, with the queen of toads Madame Delores Umbridge, and was heading towards the room of requirements his sanctuary from the less than friendly society. Harry had started to use this stress relief soon after the room was revealed, each time he used the room it provided a book, the first book was the instruction manual, interestingly enough this particular book had only read 52 times before and contained all sorts of useful info like the rooms capabilities and the method to access the higher level functions.

Harry entered the room, decked out as a combination of the Griffindore common room, the Weasley's family room and even some influence from Grimwald place with a large squishy armchair by the fire at the far end of the room, a small end table next to the chair with a goblet, a Book and a dish filled with some concoction , reaching to the door frame Harry ran the tips of the fingers along the outer edge just near the wall activating the time delay function of the room, not strong enough to stop time but more than enough to allow Harry to read an mid sized book before he was expected back at the common room.

Picking up the goblet he took a sip, every time he entered the room seeking relaxation the room provided a new non alcoholic drink, liking the taste of what he assumed to be some kind of fruit juice, he always suspected that is had something extra init as he always remembered everything in the books he read in the room, he placed his now damaged hand into the dish of liquid, again he didn't know what it was but it was better than Murlap essence. Putting the goblet down he picked up the book provided by the room and slowly turned it over in his lap, made more difficult due to only using one hand, and looked the cover over, finding nothing he opened the booked to find a rather stunning sight.

House Elf Codex

D. Potter

This book was the house elf codex, the only book in the world to hold all the secrets of the house elves, and it was written by one of his ancestors, this was both exciting and scary, finally Harry had a connection to his family and could learn more about them, but what if he found that his ancestors were just like the Malfoy's and thought that House Elf's were nothing more than creatures, well there was only one way to find out.

Chapter 2: Creation

The story of the first House Elf is one of the closets guarded secrets of the race and after hearing it I find that this is probably a good thing as you see good reader the race of House Elves was created by the legendry figure known only as Merlin's teacher rumoured to be the person who introduced Merlin to magic at a young age and who according to legend watched the rise and fall of Camelot and who apparently referred to it as a slight tussle. This person is known only as the Creator to the House Elf's and can only be identified because of one of the stories passed down concerning the Creator's staff, from this description I have likened this staff to Merlin's "Creation Staff' one of the few confirmed treasures of Merlin said to be used by Merlin in the creation of Golems and given to him by his fist teacher a master Golem builder, from other Stories I have been able to place the creation of the House Elf's some time before the year 400 A.D. and have been able to draw some conclusions as to why House elves act as they do…

Chapter 5: Servitude

At many times I have asked House Elf's why they serve humans and the only answer I have received is "That is what House Elf's do" and a quizzical look as If I asked why they breath or why they eat it's just part of there nature. After many months of questioning I was finally sent to one of the Elf-Sages, one of 6 Elf's who live on each of the primary continents keeping the history and sum knowledge of the House Elf race, this sage lived in India and after almost a week of talking and riddles I pieced together the most logical reason for an entire races servitude Power. From what the sage told me, some accident happened during the creation of the first House Elf 's apparently blamed on "That clumsy boy" I suspect to be a very young Merlin miss-transcribing a rune in the Golem matrix and making it so that the House Elf's were unable to absorb magic or create it themselves this mistake also made House Elf's dependant on magic, unable to live without a constant source and so House Elf's must be connected to a source of magic, like a Node, unfortunately they have a strict code of Honour and will not take magic without giving something back, they chose to serve the person(s) who own the node, this has gone on for over a thousand years and so the House Elf's have become a Subjugated race… all due to a mistake made by an apprentice.

Chapter 12: Power

It has been said that House Elf's have incredibly strong magic in the right area, and even thought they have no magic of there own they are very efficient at using the "borrowed" magic that they accumulate. The magic of House elf's is split into two types, professional magic to be used as part of the House Elf's job, and defensive magic, in the defence of there master a House Elf is even able to stand down an average Witch or Wizard, it's even rumoured that a House Elf in Japan was able to stand down a Yuki Onna in the middle of a snow storm in defence of her master… of course the fact that the Yuki Onna was later revelled to be friend rather than foe speaks to the House Elf's ability to overreact.

Harry picked closed the book, removed his hand from the dish and stood up from the chair, realising he now had a lot to think about Harry moved to the door, deactivated the time dilation and headed out the room. After the door closed a small "pop" sounded through the room and a pair of small wrinkled hands picked up the book cradling the tome to his chest, the House Elf unusually had a uniform of something other than Manchester, a casual suite with a coat of arms featuring a Stag and a Cat on the front pocket.

"Mistress Dorea would be proud of you Master Harry, and Master Charles would be very disappointed with the ministry,"

"Pop"

And with a small pop the Librarian of Potter Manor diapered taking the precious tome with him