"What's the biggest law governing magical society?"
"Statute of Secrecy." Susan answered.
"So having someone untrained but doing magic accidentally brings attention to the magical community does it not? That is why the muggleborns must be trained."
"Because they live in this community and are required to live by the laws governing it and pay taxes shouldn't they out of fairness have some say in how it is run and how much they have to pay?"
Draco thought about that for a moment, his mother had suggested that he try to put himself in another's shoes before saying the things he had grown up saying because his father said them. He thought for a second about how he would feel if he were told he had to pay taxes and live by laws he had no say in. Suddenly he felt a lot less sure of himself and the position his family had taken for years.
"Back in the founders era, magical and muggle weren't separate. Because of the prevalence of the Catholic Church being magical was dangerous, witch burnings and what not. Superstition was rife. Also think about muggles in that era, sanitation was nearly non-existent, literacy? Only the elite were literate. Magical society even back then understood sanitation and most if not all people were literate. So how were muggleborn in that era perceived? Dirty and ignorant. Salazar Slytherin preferring students he didn't have to teach things like reading writing and arithmetic to, given he valued ambition and cunning; it's not at all surprising. Also knowing that each of those muggleborn students had relatives that might decide to come and kill and burn the "witches" his stance was supremely logical. Even today there the muggles who are superstitious and if they knew of the magical world would either try to kill us or lock us in a cage and 'study' us.
"Not that all muggles are that way. Many are very intelligent and kind. The things they've invented to do things we do with magic are amazing. Some of them are even better than what we have, like telephones instead of floo. Admittedly phones can only be used to talk to people, not to travel but they beat speaking through a floo all to finders. And music and movies, and well the list goes on. Electron microscopes to see germs and chromosomes, I got to tell you some of it is simply amazing. They have even managed to visit the moon.
"Nowadays most muggles understand sanitation and most are literate so Salazar Slytherin's main objections are mostly invalidated. We know very little about the founders, for all we know maybe the muggles of that era enacted some personal tragedy on him that pushed Salazar from dislike to outright hate." Harry paused giving his friends time to digest all he'd said.
They sat quietly for several minutes just thinking.
Then Susan spoke, "I think we should try and change things. I vote that we all vow to do our best to support each other regardless of the House we get sorted into. It will be hard. Students in older years will doubtlessly put us down and we may even have to stand up against teachers. Harry raised very good points. With our country is on the verge of making massive changes, I think if we want to grow up and be the leaders of this new Magical Britain we should start now. We need to share what we've learned today with others and-"
"There he is! That's the lad who was with him!"
"You, my lad, where did you find the prank you pulled on your dad?"
The two identical redheads were looking at Harry with matching expressions of curiosity, mischievousness, and glee.
Harry couldn't help it he smiled. "He's not my dad, he's my godfather. As to the prank, that was my own work. You are?"
"Fred and-"
"George, also known as Gred-"
"and Forge, Weasley at your service."
Harry could see that the two boys were obviously from a poor family. He could also see his cousin gearing up to make some sort of scathing remark. Which would doubtlessly be unfortunate, given that apparently these two older boys were of the trickster mindset. For Draco's own protection Harry, who had defensively drawn his wand on the unexpected entry to the compartment, cast a whispered " Langlock" at Draco before addressing the twins. "Misters Weasley a pleasure. Why so interested in my prank on my godfather?"
"WE love pranks, and we hadn't seen that one before."
"It's our dream you see-"
"to one day own a joke shop that is more successful than Zonko's-"
"and creativity like yours-"
"should be recruited!"
Harry chuckled. These two were funny. "I see… I'll have to get back to you on that."
"Jolly good, but before we go-"
"could we possibly have the name of such a brilliant prankster?"
"Sure, Harry Potter."
Harry, who had grown up away from the UK had forgotten the way most magicals here reacted to his name. Unknown to him, Neville and Susan had warned Hannah so she wouldn't react, but the Weasley twins had no such warning. So Harry was taken aback by their reaction.
"You! You're The-Boy-Who-Lived!"
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