LeakyCon: Helga Hufflepuff Did Not Enslave the House Elves

After breakfast and Wrock discussion, we went to a Wizard Rock Opera written by Lena Gabrielle of the Butterbeer Experience.  She wrote a musical of the story, Fair Fortune, in the Tales of Beedle the Bard.  It was wonderful.  The entire production was beautiful and although I was far away from the stage, I loved every minute of it.

Immediately following the musical was a live PotterCast.  I was really excited about this because I have been listening to PotterCast for over a year and have participated in live ones on uStream, but never in real life.  This one was particularly good because the Wrock band, The Ministry of Magic, performed songs every ten minutes.

For a very long time, two of the people on PotterCast have had this argument about house elves.  John Noe, who is a Slytherin, claims that Helga Hufflepuff, founder of Hufflepuff House, enslaved the house elves that work at Hogwarts.  Sue Upton, the most spirited Hufflepuff I have ever met, insists she did not.  This argument is still going on, over a year after J.K. Rowling herself was interviewed on PotterCast and informed everyone that Helga Hufflepuff merely gave the house elves a safe place to work.

Five people were picked to ask questions on the segment, ‘Canon Connundrums’.  One person asked a question about house elves.  I cannot remember the exact question, but as soon as it was asked, Melissa got up and left.  The entire audience burst out laughing.  Frak soon joined her and the two of them left the room while John and Sue had their house elf argument.  I must say that it was priceless to be able to witness one of these arguments.

Then a girl in a yellow shirt stands up and points to her shirt.  She went up on stage and I was able to see that it said ‘Helga Hufflepuff Did Not Enslave the House Elves’.  It was brilliant.  Then John, who was wearing a green shirt that said ‘Yes, She Did’ stood next to her.  Unfortunately, I did not get a good picture of this.

And for the record, Helga Hufflepuff did not enslave the house elves!