22nd March 2016
Free our Saviour!
A speech by Teddy Weasley, aged 18, at a Public's Party demonstration in Diagon Alley. Also present are President Hermione Granger and Secretary Luna Lovegood.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Today, I bring before you a question. Why in Merlin's name is Harry Potter, Saviour of the Wizarding World, father of a girl who has never known him, and my godfather, locked up in Azkaban? Can someone please explain to me when doing what you believed in, whatever the cost, became a crime? All Harry ever did was what he had to. Can the Ministry not see that? Without him, there would be no Ministry. Don't you remember what it was like? The year I was born held an unprecedented level of murder and bloodshed. Harry stopped it. Let us imagine for a little while what it would be like if he had not used all the powers he possessed to do so.
You are scared all the time, terrified that the dark mark will be hovering over your cosy London flat one day, frightened that something you say will lead to another murder or atrocity. You don't know who to trust. Remember now? Your children cannot go to Hogwarts, because Hogwarts would be destroyed. Or, if it does still exist, it is a school for the Dark Arts. Your kids learn how to hate muggleborns and 'blood traitors', how to torture, how to kill, how to become one of Voldemort's Death Eaters, without even realising it. They are brainwashed. They don't know how to think for themselves. You can't talk about events in front of them, because they would report you to their teachers. Although this parallel world may please certain members of our community, I am certain that the majority of the Wizarding World would do almost anything to prevent it from happening.
That's what Harry Potter did. He knew it was wrong, but he also knew what the future would be like if he didn't do what he was predestined to do. Sure, you may criticise what he did now, because you're all safe and don't have to worry anymore, but the facts remain. Raymond Hollyback didn't save us. What right does he have to judge the man who saved him?
Harry James Potter. The Boy Who Lived. The Chosen One. The Saviour. Father of a girl he has never seen. Locked up in Azkaban, that dreadful place where he is surrounded by Death Eaters and dementors. For twenty eight years! He has served eighteen years of his sentence. Let him go! He has been punished enough, for crimes he did not even deserve to be punished for in the first place. Let him return to his life. Let him see his daughter. Get him out of that hell hole he lives in, because people were too afraid to stand up to a Ministry grasping at straws eighteen years ago. Help the Public's Party free Harry Potter!