Chapter 2
Acceptance… comes in many shapes indeed. A member of a certain category of either humans or animals may do something particular, brave or exceptional in another way, and the entire category of which he or she is a part, may be seen in another light. Curious, it is.
Often enough in history there had been very powerful witches; some had been the Head of Hogwarts or the Head of the Ministry, thus settling in high ranking positions, yet… In many communities witches were still considered as less than males, whether that was unconscious or not. The wizard would 'carry' heavy stuff regardless of the possibility that the witch's Hover Charm might be more powerful. Some believed that that was a result from old times, when one didn't know for sure until after the first few months when the woman of the house might be carrying a child, and thus she was being relieved from heavy burdens just to make sure no miscarriage would ensue. Women died daily in childbed, others before they even had the chance to get that far for their state would decrease their immune system, other illnesses hitting them full force. Medicine had not been so good throughout history as it might be in later decades, whether with Muggles or with Wizarding folk.
Their ability to have children, had had many cultures put women on a sort of pedestal nonetheless. In others, women were still treated merely as brood mares, filthy slaves and existed merely to be taken advantage of in basically every way, nothing more. House-Elves might be treated better. This was an undeniable truth, but not any less harsh one. England didn't belong to that latter particular category.
Muggle-borns had been seen as less and a reason for laughs and avoidance and repulsion for centuries, especially by Purebloods – even though never had there been any proof at all, that those witches or those wizards born to Muggle families were weak in magic compared to Purebloods who might have been taught magic since birth basically.
There had been many females and many Muggle-borns. However, none had ever had the impact upon the British Wizarding World and the opinions of its members until Hermione Granger came.
She, too, had had to fight for acceptance and her spot in the Wizarding World, but in the end, bushy haired, large toothed, know-it-all Granger – like many had liked to call her in school – had gotten to be in one of the highest positions at the Ministry of Magic, where she had set a lot of laws and other to ensure equality between everyone in the Wizarding World. It had come from someone who had never known of any equality.
She herself had been the main reason for any changes that had come in mentality toward the power of witches and Muggle-borns, though. Hermione Granger had been one of the two best companions of Harry Potter, the Boy Who Had Lived and the one who had defeated the Dark Lord. She had been one of the Golden Trio and the brain behind all, which many knew as well. She had written history.
She had been one of the main reasons for witches and Muggle-borns like her to be more easily accepted in later years, while giving them the chance to enter into the entirely dissimilar world of magic and find their spot there. She had.