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"His life's ambition is to have his head cut off and stuck up on a plaque just like his mother. Is that normal, Hermione?"
Ron describes Kreacher's ultimate ambition to Hermione[src]

The mother of Kreacher served as the house-elf of the Black family sometime before her son. When she became too old to carry a tea tray, she was beheaded, and her head was mounted on a plaque and hung on the wall above the front hall stairs at 12 Grimmauld Place just like all of the other house-elves that used to serve the Blacks. It was once Kreacher's sincere wish to suffer the same fate as his mother.

Many house-elves met their demise through the gruesome tradition which Elladora Black began. All of their heads were described as having a snout-like nose like Kreacher. This implies that Kreacher's family served the Blacks for several generations.

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