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A Discovery
Jul. 12th, 2009 08:43 amWell, it seems that my instincts were right. I followed up and requested that auror file I found in the personnel file of a mudblood boy, Dean Thomas, based at the Epping Forest camp. Took it home and spent yesterday afternoon perusing it and I've made a rather astounding discovery.
The auror file is a record of the investigation of the murder of a wizard, Louis Thomas, back in 1981. He's the boy's father, I believe. And that means that Dean Thomas isn't a mudblood at all. He's a half-blood.
I wonder why he was mistakenly classified with the animals? The only thing I can think of is that for some reason his widow wasn't aware that her husband was a wizard, which would be highly unusual, but I suppose it has happened before. At any rate, it is a terrible mistake and the boy doesn't belong at Epping Forest at all. He belongs, in fact, at Hogwarts.
The question now, of course, is what to do about him. He's twelve now, so he's missed his first year, but that shouldn't be a basis for keeping him out entirely. In fact, I think it's quite urgent that the deficit must be made up in his education. Perhaps some remedial tutoring can be arranged? His parchment work must be processed and reclassified, and I've also sent an owl round to the Hogwarts headmistress to discuss. I imagine that there will be quite a bit of publicity concerning the case, as the circumstances are quite dramatic in a human interest way: boy robbed of his true birthright by his father's murder, but the Ministry steps in to make things right, etcetera, etcetera. In fact, if the boy manages to make the transition successfully, I think it will be an interesting demonstration of the Ministry's truism that true blood will out, that the superiority of a wizarding heritage (even partially diluted, as in the case of a halfblood) will allow him to shine, once he is placed in the circumstances in which he truly belongs, as befitting his true blood status.
At any rate, I plan to go to Epping Forest this week to see the boy and to interview his mother, if I can track her down. And then we'll see about getting him admitted to Hogwarts.
The auror file is a record of the investigation of the murder of a wizard, Louis Thomas, back in 1981. He's the boy's father, I believe. And that means that Dean Thomas isn't a mudblood at all. He's a half-blood.
I wonder why he was mistakenly classified with the animals? The only thing I can think of is that for some reason his widow wasn't aware that her husband was a wizard, which would be highly unusual, but I suppose it has happened before. At any rate, it is a terrible mistake and the boy doesn't belong at Epping Forest at all. He belongs, in fact, at Hogwarts.
The question now, of course, is what to do about him. He's twelve now, so he's missed his first year, but that shouldn't be a basis for keeping him out entirely. In fact, I think it's quite urgent that the deficit must be made up in his education. Perhaps some remedial tutoring can be arranged? His parchment work must be processed and reclassified, and I've also sent an owl round to the Hogwarts headmistress to discuss. I imagine that there will be quite a bit of publicity concerning the case, as the circumstances are quite dramatic in a human interest way: boy robbed of his true birthright by his father's murder, but the Ministry steps in to make things right, etcetera, etcetera. In fact, if the boy manages to make the transition successfully, I think it will be an interesting demonstration of the Ministry's truism that true blood will out, that the superiority of a wizarding heritage (even partially diluted, as in the case of a halfblood) will allow him to shine, once he is placed in the circumstances in which he truly belongs, as befitting his true blood status.
At any rate, I plan to go to Epping Forest this week to see the boy and to interview his mother, if I can track her down. And then we'll see about getting him admitted to Hogwarts.