"Yeah, but then what?" she hesitated, "There’s no place in the wizarding world for free elves, is there? Not like goblin’s, who have their own sources of income and their own clans and the such - house elves are all tied up in wizarding families, aren’t they. So, you’re freeing them into nothing basically - and I don’t disagree with you that they should be free," Harry clarified, "but maybe that should be the end goal, rather than the first step?" 