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“Professor, while I think it would be fantastic if we didn’t have to hide as witches and wizards,” although fantastic was a bit of an understatement. “I am not sure that the non-magical world would be neither willing nor ready to allow us in. People are always afraid of what is different and unless everyone is able to accept those differences…” Like my mother…
Kurumi’s mind was racing again as everything that had happened so far this term came back in a giant whirl. She felt dizzy and her raised hand dropped to her desk and lay there. All this discussion was a bit too much for her to handle.
"I believe that some would say that the period of transition, of getting accustomed to that which we do not know, would be worth the discomfort. All change is uncomfortable." He shrugged. It was more than that little bit of discomfort that concerned him, but it shouldn't be a reason not to change in some situations.
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Edlyn raised her hand and answered. "Professor, for my own opinion. I don't think muggles need our protection because if that happened, we are exposing magic to non-wizards and that's against the wizarding rules. With that, people might harm us for we are different. Again professor, it's my opinion only."
Edlyn finished her answer half breathing.
"But the point we're debating is whether or not that law should even exist. It currently DOES exist, but some would like to get rid of it."
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Saraie Caroline had been raised in a pureblood family, anti-muggle and all that rubbish. She was always quite interestered by muggles. She thought that if a muggle needed the help and a witch or Wizard should help them, then they should, and just modifly their memories, what they don't know won't hurt them. She rasied her hand. "I think that if they really need the help then we should help them, then modify their memory. No harm. No foul. We are discouraged from helping them, but in my opinion why not help them, and like I said before then modify the memory"
"It's not so simple. Repeated memory modifications can cause memory issues in the long run," Tate offered. "Are you helping them, or are you hurting them?"
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Emily_Potter Emily raised her hand to answer the Professor's question.
"Professor, we are allowed to protect muggles, we are not discouraged from it- hence why we have the misuse of magical artefacts office at the Ministry, so that we can protect muggles from coming into contact with bewitched muggle objects which may do them harm. However because of the Statute of Secrecy it is best if muggles do not witness the magic which protects them." Emily paused for a breath, "Not that it matters too much, the Ministry always cleans things up by modifying their memory.... It's not a bad thing to protect a muggle." She finished.
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Tegz "Ministry involvement with muggles isn't at all the same as an individual being discouraged to muck in there. I mean, the ministry takes an active stance in muggle political matters too, and intervenes in large scale emergency situations, via the British Muggle Prime Minister. And you could argue that the point of bewitching muggle stuff is so that no muggle would see a magical item, and the statute wouldn't get broke or nothin', and that its our magic that puts them at risk in the first place. Our magic doesn't protect them it protects us, so does the statute. Its got not much to do with their well-being at all." Jim pointed out, speaking kinda lazily from the front of the room. He'd have winked at the pretty 'claw if he hadn't been sitting with his girlfriend.
"And you know, if muggles knew about us, we'd be in trouble. History shows that its human nature to attack and destroy stuff we don't understand or ar threatened by, that goes for wizardkind aaaand mugglekind you know. And, magic can't beat nuclear power."
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Pinky This class was making her head hurt. As was Jim's Pro Wizard stance. Sighs. "What if a Dark witch or wizard was harming a Muggle and you happened across the scene? Would you help then? Or let it slide because you wouldn't want to break the law? We could sit here and argue the validity of one situation to the next... the fact stands that the statute is old... maybe it could be changed, maybe Muggles would persecute us... who knows," she said a bit peeved.
Tate let the last few students argue amongst themselves, although he found it was interesting to see which side each student landed in the argument. There really wasn't a black or white position in this debate, regardless of what anyone thought, and they'd covered the entire spectrum in class already.
He could call it a day, really. If he wanted.
As students shouted out their answers, Tate listed them on the board:
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Bellatrix Lestrange
Voldermort
Grindelwald
Morgana Lefay
Godelot
Salazar Slytherin
Herpo the Foul
Emeric the Evil
Severus Snape
Merwyn the Malicious
Peter Pettigrew
Fenrir Greyback
Witch of Endor
Igor Karkaroff
Voldemortist
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Zoerawrr Schweeeeet. That was a smile.
Jake was smaht. He even smiled proudly himself.
And missed the comment towards Neptune becuse of it. Oops.
"That French git... erm... bloke," Jake said simply with his hand raised. He was... famous, right? Well... "He's infamous... you know... 'round here."
"Jake," Tate glowered at the boy. Constantly. Pushing. Lines. "Manners. I won't remind you again."
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Tegz "Depends. My own tail is more important to me than that of some random muggle." And to plenty of girls too, who Jim was quite sure would prefer he escaped any situation with his pretty unscathed. "Besides, most of the people in here wouldn't be allowed to intervene because of an entirely different law." Yeah. Underage magic. Jim glanced briefly to his right at Marie.
Yeah girlfriend, you totally forgot our birthday.
Dark Wizards? He looked at Tate again. Naw. Better not to draw attention to old family ties, right?
"Voldemortist. He's your buddy, right sir?"
"Absolute best buddy," Tate agreed solemnly. Or something like that.
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Roselyn Mmhmm, something about muggles.
Having decided not to answer, since she'd just go on and on about her opinion on the matter, the Slytherin instead wrote down a few random things in her notebook as she kept an open ear on the discussion. It was mostly a to-do list though.
Though the next question, she was a little slow in answering too. Mostly because people kept saying the dark wizard she kept thinking. Gah! "What about that Bullock author..." she said after raising her hand. Wrote that one book. Yea..that one.
Quite a horrible book she heard.
Tate gave her a wrinkled-brow-quizzical-look. "Not sure who you mean. Let me know if you think of her name, and we might be able to add her to the list."
He gestured at the list on the board and gave them all a moment to study it before turning back to the class. "Each of these people, for one reason or another, was deemed Dark by one of your classmates, but they were all very different in what they did and how they interacted with the Dark Arts. What are some common characteristics we can find in this group?"