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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., foxmoth at q... wrote:
> This thread reminds me of something...
> 
> "But they were *our* kind weren't they?"
> "They were a witch and wizard if that's what you mean."
> "I really don't think they should let the other sort in, do you? 
> They're just not the same, they've never been brought up to know 
our 
> ways.Some of them have never even heard of Hogwarts until they get 
the 
> letter, imagine. I think they should keep it in the old wizarding 
> families."
>    
> Pippin
> seriously on topic

Since I started this thread, I really feel I must answer this.

Can you please read my original message and tell me how closing the 
list to ALL new members is remotely like the racist attitude quoted 
above? 
I would be the first to object to any kind of selection in accepting 
new members. Not by age, not by IQ, not by anything. That is so 
hurtful. But simply saying that the list is too large and that at the 
present it is closed to all new members is not offensive (nor is it 
elitist). 
I myself have problems with the idea of closing the list (because, as 
Heidi pointed out, we might miss wonderful people), but I certainly 
don't see anything morally wrong with it.

Please think twice before you throw such horrible accusations at 
people.

Naama