House Elves and Labor Laws

House Elves and Labor Laws It is commonly accepted in the Wizarding World to own servants called house elves. House elves are magical creatures with enormous eyes and bat-like ears. It seems to be that the only purpose of these interesting little creatures is to serve the homes and families of those wizards who own them. These magical creatures are devoted and loyal to the one designated as their master. They serve wizards and witches, and must do everything that their masters command unless they are freed. A House-Elf can only be freed when his master gives him a piece of clothing such as a sock or hat. To the house elves it is their duty to obey their masters, and they would consider it an insult to be freed from their duties. To some witches and wizards however, house elves are mistreated, they think the elves should be treated with more respect, and should earn wages for their services. The mistreatment of these creatures should be controlled, since house elves have a similar mindset to that of children, there should be laws to protect the house elves, much like child labor laws. Similar to the labor unions in our society, Hermoine Granger proposed the wonderful idea of creating a house elf union; this could prove to be very useful. House elves often endure many punishments during their service for witches and wizards, these punishments are very similar in nature to the punishments and torture African American slaves endured during their enslavement. House Elves have a very simple mindset, much like that of a child. Taking this into consideration there should be some laws set to protect the well being of house elves, similar to our child labor laws. House elves should not be put to work constantly as they have been, if our child labor laws were applied house elves would work no more than forty (40) hours in any one (1) work week when school is not in session; (c) Not more than eighteen (18) hours in any one (1) work week when school is in