Kitty was sitting near the back of the class this time. Of course she'd said good morning like everyone else, but it was understandable if some of her classmates didn't realize she was here since her usual spot was in the front row.

All right, let's get into this! Her hand shot into the air as Professor Marchand asked the first question, ready to give her a variation of her usual dissent. But before she could even open her mouth, Ronan gave an answer perfectly designed to trigger her. And to top it all off, he even started saying her name. "Kit-" who else could that be but her???

Turning to frown at the annoying Gryffindor, the head girl directed her response to him as much as to Rosalyn. "All of us are living in a Wizarding community right now. It's our second home and I appreciate it. There are many wonderful wizarding communities. There are also many wonderful Muggle communities. While SOME people believe that Muggles are a vicious race who would kill us all if they had the chance, I know that is not true. The fact that many of us fear Muggles so much is the downside of living only in Wizarding communities. Skylar is right in saying that living in only Wizarding communities can lead to close mindedness. A popular Muggle movie series called Star Wars has a saying: 'Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.' I won't name any names, but it is clear that some people in this very castle are deeply afraid of Muggles. The reason they're scared is because our society teaches them to be afraid. The Statute may have been useful in the past, but today all it does is create fear and division between humans - classifying us based on our blood rather than our character."

That would have been a good place to end it, but Kitty was still upset hot SOME people still seemed to think she was to blame for all the strange occurrences that year. "And yes, there are some bad Muggles and many close minded ones. But it works both ways. When I was brutally possessed and forced to write a message in blood underneath the hawk, some people accused me of being in the Cult of Walpurgis just because I disagreed with them about the Statute. I was the victim in that case, but I was accused of something that would have sent me to Azkaban if it were true. And I never did anything to the people accusing me. So I'd say there are at least as many close minded wizards as there are close minded muggles.