system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Harry Potter] If i were to give my House Elf money to buy new cloths because theirs are tattered and smell bad, would that count as me giving them cloths?

I cant have my elf walking around in cloths that smell like they do, does me giving them an allowance to buy cleaner/newer cloths count as me giving them their freedom?
gpt
No. They do laundry at Hogwarts, and that's more like giving them clothes. If a House Elf really wants to be free they could interpret some odd things as giving them clothes, but in general it's not something you can do on accident.