A/N: I struggle to find time to focus on the actual story part, however, I have figured out I can squeeze in working on stuff like this between other things. Hope you enjoy


How to Increase Equality in Our Basic Terminology

(A paper by the Ministry of Magic's Representatives of Witchers)

If you're reading this you already know that Witch, Witcher, and Wizard are commonly used to refer to separate genders amongst the citizens of the magical world. These terms have led to discrimination in laws and certain careers. The origins of these terms had no correlation to gender or sex. We will present a possible alternative option to use. Terms such as Witch, Witcher, and Wizard are outdated.

Firstly, many of the laws brought about by the Wizzengamont have excluded a majority of the population simply by using the term "Wizard" to refer to a person to which the law would apply to. Now, the majority of individuals simply use it as implied and applies the law to everyone, however, there have been a number of people, specifically within the "Sacred 28," recorded to have followed those laws to the letter. Member of the Wizzengamont and prominent figure in the magical side of Britain, Lucius Malfoy has been seen and confirmed to be using his wife's vote in any and all affairs, claiming that "the law states that any wizard who meets the requirements is given the right to vote, yet they still send her a ballot." So a citizen with every right to vote has had it taken from them, and many other of his Circle, such as the Crabe, Goyle, Diggory, and Crouch families have been recorded saying similar thoughts. However the discrimination doesn't end in the courtrooms, studies such as "The Effect of The Title 'Mediwitch' on Potential Healers" and "Craftswizard and Mediwitch, Can They Really Be For Both Witches and Wizards?" Show that employers are more likely to hire a Witch to be a Mediwitch than a Wizard even if the Wizard is more qualified.

The bases for this discrimination isn't even relevant to the title. The origins of the terms Witch and Wizard -- and subsequently Witcher, which was meant to be somewhere in between the two whilst being it's own individual term -- have nothing to do with the gender or sex of an individual. Many will recognize the words Witchcraft and Wizardry, however many simply assume they are simply different words for the same thing: magic. While both are magic, studies show that only magical historians and few others know that Witchcraft and Wizardry are subsections of magic with their own subsections. Now each of the subsections of the subsections are taught separately from each other with no regard to their connection to each other. To reference it all in a way that everyone could understand, we will use a subject list from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to separate the subsections: Witchcraft encompasses Potions, Herbalogy, Magizoology (Care of Magical Creatures on the school list) and Divination; Wizardry however encompasses Transfiguration, Charms, Curses and Counter curses(Defense Against the Dark Arts) and Arithmancy. Everything else on the school list we used for reference is purely informational and does not involve magic. Many forms of both are only taught under apprenticeships with specialists, however this is usually explained early in the lessons such as Nicholas Flamel teaching his current successor about Alchemy as a part of Witchcraft. As you can see, none of those fields are specific to gender or sex, are they?

By now you are probably wondering "oh what ever could we possibly do to rid us of this terrible occurrence in our community!?" Well, the first step is to remove terms such as Witch, Wizard, and Witcher. Now we don't expect the world to change overnight, so don't stop calling yourself it just yet, unless you're very confident in yourself and those around you. Secondly, we need to replace it with a newer term that can encompass Men Women and Nonbinary people who possess magic. Our team of entomologists have been working hard to figure out what term we should use and by the end felt rather silly because of how obvious they felt their suggestion is. We suggest that the term Magi be used to encompass us and separate us from muggles. The term Magi would refer to anyone of the human race that is able to use magic, and it's plural form would be Magi. An example would be "Many Wandcrafters say that the wand chooses the magi, and that a magi's wand will learn from the magi and develop a personality."

So, in conclusion the terms Witch and Wizard are pointless and sexist, with Witcher just being a good attempt. "Purebloods" tend to be sexist and if one of 'ems still reading they should hopefully reevaluated their opinions, and Magi is an amazing term for as all.