Dear Editor,
I am most disappointed at your publication of the article, "Werewolves: A Danger to Our Society." You obviously have no grasp about the reality of werewolves. It is a shame that you publish such blatant lies in your newspaper that I feel I can no longer believe anything that is written in the "Daily Prophet."
Werewolves are some of the most misunderstood people in the Wizarding World. Notice that I say 'people,' not 'creatures,' and not 'monsters.'
Werewolves are just as much of a human as any of you who are reading this. Perhaps even more so, because they know what it's like to lose that humanity, unlike many of the so-called "prestigious members of society."
All of you who immediately sneer and think of werewolves as inferiors must ask yourselves this: What would you do if you were bitten? How would you handle the fact that at every full moon, you would transform into what most people, maybe even yourself, think of as a mindless, evil monster? Three days a month, you would have to make sure you were in a secure location so you would not hurt anyone else.
What would you do if you found out that the door wasn't shut, and you killed someone? Or perhaps you merely bit them and sentenced them to the same fate as you held?
You would no longer have a job, as any boss you had would fire you as soon as he found out. Any possible Wizarding employers would throw you out the back door, as no one wants to be seen associating with a monster.
If you were a Pureblood wizard, it is more than probable that you would be disowned faster than you could say, "Howl." You would be alone and friendless. No one would want to help you, because you are "such a danger to them."
Most of the Wizarding society believes that this curse is somehow the infected person's fault. They turn their head and think, "Oh, well, it's because of his own stupidity that he's a werewolf. We shouldn't help someone like that."
To me, this sounds like medieval Muggle idealism toward witches and wizards. You try to say you're so different from what Muggles are, yet all you are is more old-fashioned, and not in a good way.
I personally have met several werewolves in my life. They are sadly misjudged, and the majority of them are kinder than the majority of 'normal' wizards I have met. Only two of them had resorted to complete acceptance of Lycanthropy as the best and only way for anyone to be. One of them was Fenir Greyback, who specialized in creating child werewolves, in an attempt to achieve a complete werewolf society. I don't believe that this was such an evil plan, though Greyback went about it the wrong way. If there were a werewolf society, these people would be treated far better than they are now.
You accept vampires, hags, and lunatics who are try to wipe out the population of witches and wizards without magical lineage, so what's stopping you from accepting werewolves into common society?
Sincerely,
Hermione Jean Granger
Head of WHIM: Wizards Helping Involuntary Misfits
Founder of SPEW: Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare
Owner of Splotches and Parchment
Supporter of equal rights within the Wizarding society
MUDBLOOD