Minister Weasley

JULY, 2036

MINISTER WEASLEY

DO HER DREAMS ALIGN WITH THE PEOPLE?

The new Minister of Magic, @hermione has great confidence. Confidence that what has been done in the past is wrong. In an interview, she declared that she wanted change and was willing to do “anything to make it happen.” Change to Minister Weasley includes freeing the house elves.

The condition of the house elves has been a lifelong passion of Minister Weasley’s as she started the Society of the Promotion of Elfish Welfare (S.P.E.W.) during her days in Hogwarts: “I really would like to free the house elves, as well as many sure other magical creatures and beings with any sort of sentience can participate in our community without prejudice.”

Would the freedom of house elves be a childhood dream come true?

Magical creatures have always been treated with scrutiny within society. Whereas many abilities or conditions must be registered, creatures go through other regulations in order to participate in society. The Ministry has created various guidelines for treatment of other creatures, such as the “Guidelines for the Treatment of Non-Wizard Part-Humans.”*

Vampires must in from governments of their permanent leaving and coming. As long as differences have existed, there has always been opposition, such as the “Society for the Tolerance of Vampires.”*

Werewolves have been hunted by witches and wizards for sport. Due to the work from Professor Marlowe Forfang, we were able to understand more clearly the relationship between wizards, muggles, and werewolves.

Werewolves are supposed to lock themselves up instead of run free during a full moon to stop unexplainable changes (Werewolf Code of Conduct, 1637). But the registration process has always been unsuccessful, for who would want to sign their lives away when others hunted them?

Even now, when registration is more accepted, if on the registration a person must be able to prove adequate supply of Wolfsbane potion at any given time. Whereas, I, a wizard do not need to prove where I hide my wand and magical objects for the safety of non-magical peoples.

Additionally, there are regulations for veelas, giants, centaurs, goblins, dragons, and others. Magical creatures have been othered in society, there have been, and continue to be prejudice wars between pureblood, half-blood, and muggleborns. Terms like “mudblood” have graced our society to discriminate against muggleborn wizards.

Furthermore, the ministry requires registry for wizards who have other abilities including, but not limited to occlumency, legilimency, animagus, broomless flight, invisibility, metamorphagus, seer, and wandless magic. With so many regulations, being different seems more a crime the more steps you take for just being you.

In a world of many regulations and unfairness, one must ask where is the line between keeping everyone, including those with difference safe, and creating an unstable environment for people living with a difference? Perhaps Minister Weasley’s intended plans of change will address some of these issues.

While Minister Weasley wants justice for magical creatures, she wants a different kind of justice for wizarding kind. Minister Weasley stated: “I'd like to make the magical community safer. Even if it means undoing some of the things that @miller and I worked on while she was Minister:

"I've taken things into consideration, and I feel like it might have been a mistake to reveal magic to the muggles. We've had so many problems with groups like the witch hunters that have terrorized us since day one. I really would like to go back to the way things were before muggles were so aware of our world. I think it would be safer indeed, and I plan to act on that soon."

Here we see another kind of othering from Minister Weasley, and a surprising one having two muggle parents herself, who she protected during the war. The Minister continued in some detail of her plan to utilize our Auror department to “make arrests” and “find ways to erase any unwanted memories form their minds.”

When questioned about the ethical and moral implications with such a widespread, and worldly endeavor, the Minister discussed the history of non-magical folks prosecuting magical folks.

However, does one group speak for the masses? Does a group of witch hunters mean that all muggles are going to try to kill our kind? While one must condemn these groups, but one witch hunter does not symbolize the whole of the muggle community. But, as Minister Weasley indicated, she’s “the Minister of Magic” and does not “have to get permission from anyone.”

The Minister of Magic, Hermione Weasley has large goals in her new role. What will she be able to accomplish?