"Oh no, they actually enjoyed it. It's twisted. I tried setting them free but you wouldn't believe how they wailed. And it wasn't in my power anyway." His father had made that clear. Granted, his desire to set them free was purely so they would get out of his face.

Sirius shrugged. He wasn't motivated to try and paint a bigger picture of house elf and wizard relations. And he recognized that his own experiences were warped to say the least.

"Speaking of the Daligig, are we going to do something about them? It seems I miss out on all the announcements until after they've happened." He kept forgetting to check the omnicomms. He kept forgetting to do a lot of things, really.