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Episode 16 : The Silent Chains: The Dark Truth Behind the Enslavement of the Elves in Harry Potter
Jun 22, 2025
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What really happened to the house-elves before they were bound to servitude? In this haunting and emotional deep dive narrated in the voice of Severus Snape, we uncover the buried history of how an entire magical species was enslaved—not with chains, but with spells, silence, and centuries of forgotten rebellion.
From ancient elven freedom to the Binding Oaths created by powerful wizarding families, this video reveals the dark truth the wizarding world would rather forget.
🎧 Narration: Snape's POV
🎼 Music Credit: Dark Times by Kevin MacLeod (YouTube Audio Library)
🕯️ Watch closely. Listen carefully. Not all saviors wear cloaks... some wear pillowcases.
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mu ask about the house elves foolish
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curiosity
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and yet if you're to understand anything
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of magic anything real at all you must
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begin in the dark beneath your great
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hall where laughter and roast chicken
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abound their lie chains not made of iron
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b steel no much worse chains of silence
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chains of obedience of magic cast long
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ago by hands far cruer than your soft
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idle generation could stomach come
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closer you won't like this tale but then
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the truth rarely concerns itself with
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being liked
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before the chains long before Hogwarts
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opened its hallowed gates before the
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Ministry of Magic corrupted every
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parchment with bureaucracy before even
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the founders etched their legacies into
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stone there were the elves not slaves
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not servants but beings of raw wild
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magic the elves orea
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as they called themselves in a tongue
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now lost once lived hidden deep in
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enchanted forests across highland glenns
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and beneath the roots of ancient trees
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their magic was instinctive
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not taught not calculated like ours but
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felt they sang spells whispered to wind
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and flame they needed no wonder they
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were not weak not by any stretchome even
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say the Elevara taught the earliest
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humans how to harness magic but we
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humans wizards do not like to remember
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our debts we rewrite them the first sign
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of betrayal came when the humans founded
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their great cities magic became
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something to own to register to measure
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the Ministry of Magic didn't exist then
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but greed did fear followed close behind
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then the elves too free too
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unpredictable too powerful as the great
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binding we don't teach it in history of
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magic professor Bin's insufferable even
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in death drones on about goblin
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rebellions
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but not this secret meeting was held
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among the most powerful wizarding
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families pure bloods naturally the name
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Malfoy was there long before Lucius
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sullied it further so to the Carrows the
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NS and the Elder Blacks they saw the
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elves not as threats but as
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opportunities wizards knew they could
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not destroy them not without great loss
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so they found another path they would
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enslave them not with chains no that
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would be too obvious too easy to resist
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instead they created a spell a binding
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oath old magic forbidden magic they
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twisted the elves own instincts loyalty
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honor servitude to family into traps
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went bound the elf could never disobey
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the more loyal they became the deeper
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the bond etched into their magic and
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here's the final cruelty over
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generations the elves forgot the binding
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became part both who they were the
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chains passed down in blood memory magic
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they stopped longing for freedom they
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began to fear it
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the gift of clothes yes the clothes too
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give a house elf an item of clothing is
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to set it free that's what the law says
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but who do you think made that Lor same
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families who bound them it's a trick a
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loophole a mockery the elf bound to
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serve cannot ask for release it may only
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hope its master grows careless drops a
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sock tosses a coat due you see the
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indignity not only must they serve but
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they must wait in silence praying for
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the clumsiness of their oppressor you
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call that Mercedi was one of the few who
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ever dared speak openly of freedom brave
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yes but damaged they called him mad for
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wanting what was already stolen
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hogwarts enjoy your feasts don't you
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roast lamb trickle tart pumpkin juice on
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tap dew you know who makes it who
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prepares every meal every dish every
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single night without fail house elves
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they dwell in the kitchens below dozens
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of them unseen unpaid unthanto
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yes they smile they giggle when you
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visit they bow even when you beg them
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not tube they are not happy they are
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programmed conditioned trained to smile
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so you won't notice the chains professor
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yes I know what you think of him he
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tried he gave them choice but even he
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could not undo centuries of bondage with
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kindness and lemonrops hering granger
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formed that pitiful little group spew
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and do you know what happened laughter
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they laughed at her the students the
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staff even the elves that's how deep it
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goes the wound is so ancient that they
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can't even see it bleeds as
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rebellion there was once an uprising few
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know of it fewer still speak of it the
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year was 1320 a clan of house elves from
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Wales led by a defector named Brethther
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fled the estate of a pure blood family
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they did not go quietly the binding was
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strong but Bretha had learned to bend it
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not break it but weaken it she taught
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the others and they ran for one full
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season they lived free in the black
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mountains hidden hunted hated thee
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ministry sent wizards after them not
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auras executioners
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the event was buried disguised as a
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goblin dispute bretha was never captured
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but the elves she saved were re play
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enslaved a punishment was severe not
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death something worse memory charms
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powerful ones the elves forgot breath of
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forgot the rebellion forgot freedom
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aster a mirror in the dark i once met a
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house elf who served in the department
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of mysteries yes even they use them he
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had no name or rather he had forgotten E
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polished prophecy orbs all day every day
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for 50 years i asked him once whether he
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had ever wanted to leave he stared at me
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blankly leave what sir that was his
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answer not defiance not fear ignorant
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willed ignorance instilled so deeply
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that he could not imagine the concept of
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estor chains had reached his soul and
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now the world changes yes but not evenly
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not kindly we tell tales of Dobby and
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creature we say see they can be free but
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how many more are still hidden still
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working in pure blood homes afraid to
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speak how many more dream of liberty but
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dare not name the dream you students
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think Voldemort was the only darkness
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but the real evil the subtle one it
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lives in comfort in inheritance by in
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ancient houses with silver crests and
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velvet wars it doesn't shout it whispers
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you are meant to serve as the truth
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beneath the floorboards so How you know
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the next time you sit in the great hall
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spare a thought for the hands that lit
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the torches that cooked your feast that
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washed the floor they are not ghosts
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they are not vermin they are victims of
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a spell too powerful too ancient too
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deep for wands to undo but remember this
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the mind is a wand to end sometimes
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sometimes it only takes one voice one
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sock one foolish brave idea to break a
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cursot all chains are made of metalland
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not all saviors wear cloaks wear pillow
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cases and