A Goblin's Plea for Equality

Volume I

Critique of Idea-centrism according to its representatives Mrs. Creswell, Mrs. Granger and Mr. Potter, and of Protectionism according to their representatives Mr. Goldstein and Miss. Bones

Preface

There was a promise that things have changed; that the new order has made us equal, that Magic is no longer might. History has been written far too long by wand holders. Magic might no longer be might, but wand still is.

Hitherto wand holders have constantly made up for themselves false conceptions about non-wand holders, about what they are and what they ought to be. Let us liberate them from their creations; let us revolt against their conceptions.

No doubt the majority of the wizarding community has felt the change, and perhaps sees my plea as agitation. They have felt the change because they are the ruling body. Contrary to what they claim, they, and not all of us, are the true winners of the new regime.

The illusions of Idea-centrists

Once upon a time a valiant warlock had the idea that Dementors can be fought by concentration on happiness. He argued that we can fight Dementors if we rid ourselves of fear; he performed the perfect charm to disperse Dementors. What he did not take into account was that some of us don't have wands. This valiant warlock was the type of Idea-centrists today.

I have no doubt about the good intentions of honorable Mrs. Granger and have my utmost respect for her, but it is clear to me that her recent attempt on Goblin Rights stems from her wizarding position and the beliefs our society has regarded as truth for almost twenty years. She says let us liberate ourselves from the rule of old dogma, let us teach our communities to exchange new thoughts with old ones. We are told that change is slow as Flobberworm and we need to be patient and constantly educate our societies for the old dogma to wither; she says, the war between love and evil is never ending and as long as we live we have to choose the right path. Thus preaches honorable Mrs. Granger and thus believed the first and, to an extent, the second ministries of magic after the fall of the Dark Lord.

All is well, declares distinguished Mr. Potter from his position; but has he bothered to ask elves, goblins, banshees, centaurs, vampires, werewolves, and other intelligent magical creatures whether all is well?

This, precisely, is the reason our ruling wizarding community fails to explain why after 20 years we are yet to see an issue of Daily Prophet without headlines about dark wizards killing aurors, neo-Creaturists lynching half-humans, muggle born harassments, goblin killings, et cetera. It is said that Ideas should change and crime will vanish. Which group of ideas and how many of us should change our minds is not defined.

And should it be a surprise that none of the Dumbledore-like heralds of equality can answer the most important Creaturist, nay the only Creaturist, question: why haven't the newly freed minorities, i.e. non humans, improved if we are to believe all creatures are equal?

In this essay I seek to challenge the hitherto commentators of equality, i.e. the Idea-centrists and Protectionists, and show that the most destructive force to equality and fairness is not the Creaturism beliefs of the likes of Death Eaters, but the Idea-centricity that holds true the not-challenged instructions of Headmaster Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, previous supreme mugwump of the international confederation of wizards and chief warlock of wizengamot, and instead of tangible change demands change only in the realm of mind.