Will shook his head quickly, raising his own hand. No WAY was that poor little elf going to get flogged in front of them if he could help it. He looked at Kingston with an expression of purest disdain at his 'idiotic' suggestion. "A real man- especially a fine gentleman of Lord Borr's stature-- would never stoop to something as base and crude as physical violence against anyone, much less a defenseless house elf so far below his station in life. I suspect the right course of action, especially when one is a professor of Lord Borr's caliber, is to educate the house elf on the proper way to accomplish waste removal. " He looked to Lord Borr to see how he would react to his answer. If he had to, he'd clean up the mess himself rather than see that elf beaten.