neeples (neeples) wrote in neeps, @ 2017-12-18 19:42:00 |
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Letter: Chairwizard is misguided
To the Editors of the Prophet and Chairwizard MacFarlan,
You want politics out of quidditch. Out of the BIL. Fine, I get it. I thought the same thing years ago, back before a war.
Back before every muggleborn attached to this League was ripped out. Because of politics.
Back before we were registered.
Back before we lost our jobs for that status.
Back before we started fleeing for our lives.
Back before those of us who didn't were thrown in Azkaban.
And back before I was dragged off the pitch in the middle of a match because I wasn't born to wizard parents.
What is more of a political statement than that? When the ministry sends its goons to drag you off to a prison island where every single day Dementors suck the soul and joy from you. When they drag you from a place supposed to be 'apolitical', so apolitical that we fly without even our wands. And when they know you'll be defenseless and out in the open and think you're safe because "the quidditch pitch is not the time or place for it".
Politics off the quidditch pitch didn't protect us from that. Maybe if we hadn't been so foolish to think we could separate quidditch from a sense of humanity we might've stopped a bit more.
What are you protecting the public and the players from here? Bright colours? Mismatching robes? Developing a sense of moral responsibility?
Stadiums full of fans had to watch me and other players be dragged off defenseless, kicking and screaming.
I think they can handle a little pink.
Dawn Withey,
Beater
Muggleborn
[OOC Note: This is the 20th draft which had to be extensively edited to tone it down and remove the constant swearing. ]