We few, we happy few, we band of brothers (and sisters)...
I'm badly paraphrasing the Bard, but the principle stands.
For too long, we few, we muggleborns, have been relegated to the sidelines or demeaned as unworthy of even the magic we've been blessed (or cursed) to wield. A monster tried to wipe us off the face of the Earth, all in the name of a purity that he didn't even possess. It's impossible to believe that there isn't a single wizard alive today who doesn't have at least one non-magical ancestor, even if their name or connection has been erased by time or willful ignorance or outright denial.
We have been marginalized, our contributions minimized or even rendered non-existent. Nowhere else is this more apparent than in the British and Irish Quidditch League. In the entire league, there are no more than 15 muggleborns across all teams. Why aren't there more, you're probably asking? Some of you are saying, "Of course there's not more, they didn't grow up with the sport. They're just not good enough for the professional game!"
While I agree that we should get into the game on our own merits, don't automatically assume that we aren't as good as anyone else, just because we grew up watching footie on telly. (That's muggle football on a muggle television- a bit like a wireless, but with pictures. You lot really don't know what you're missing out on.) More to the point, how can you expect us to succeed or even grow in a sport that forgot us for a year?
The League continued on during that dark year, like nothing was happening, like we weren't being hunted, weren't having our homes and businesses taken from us, our wands snapped. No, it was business as usual for them. And business means galleons, galleons that we never had a chance to earn. So our game suffered, and our families suffered from lack of support. That seems fair.
This is not to say that there isn't some glimmer of hope on the horizon from the League, because, if the rumours are true, there are rumblings that the "Thicknesse season" will be scrapped altogether. But what of the money from that season? Does it just go back into a system that neglected its players in the first place? Or will the BIL do the right thing, and donate it to charities designed to help those that were most effected by the horrors of the War?
Only time will tell, and only history will judge.
From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remember'd; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother...Henry V | Act 4, Scene 3, William Shakespeare