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- "... and dear Aunt Elladora... she started the family tradition of beheading house-elves when they got too old to carry tea trays..."
- — Sirius Black regarding these house-elves[src]
These individuals were house-elves that served as servants for the House of Black in the years between Elladora Black's birth, in 1850, and Walburga Black's death, in 1985.[1]
History[]
Elladora Black started the family tradition of cutting the heads off of the house-elves when they were too old to carry tea trays.[1] Their heads were hung on plaques on the walls of 12 Grimmauld Place.[2]
Known Black house-elves[]
- Scrope's relatives – beheaded for being too old.[3]
- Scrope – served Phineas Nigellus Black during his tenure as Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the 1890s.[3]
- Kreacher's mother – beheaded once she was too old to carry a tea tray. Kreacher aspired to meet the same fate.[1]
- Kreacher – served Walburga, Orion, Regulus, and Sirius Black, as well as possibly Bellatrix Lestrange and Narcissa Malfoy, and eventually Harry Potter.[1]
Behind the scenes[]
- In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the house-elves heads are not mounted on plaques, as described in the novel, but are propped up inside belljars perched in nooks by the stairs leading to the upper floors. This deviation is repeated in the video game adaptations of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.
- All of the beheaded house-elves are described as having "the same rather snoutlike nose", which could suggest they are all related.
Appearances[]
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (video game)
- Pottermore
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
- Harry Potter: The Creature Vault
- Harry Potter Limited Edition