radical remedy

[foxmoth at qnet.com]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., naama_gat at h... wrote:
> --- 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 said the  *thread* reminded me...not anyone's individual post. 
Judging by the response this is a subject that needed to be discussed 
and I am in no way critical of you for bringing it up. 
	There's really two issues on the table...one is that the list is 
simply too large. You suggested closing the list to newcomers and that 
unleashed a torrent of complaints, not to say accusations, about the 
newbies. The truth is that newcomers are a nuisance. I'm sure they're a 
nuisance in the wizarding world too. It probably *is* a chore for the 
born-and-raised wizards to assimilate all the newcomers who insist on 
using muggle slang, can't find the platform, etc. just like we get 
tired of people using i-talk and not knowing, or caring which questions 
should go to us and which should be directed to the lexicon...(you 
know, not everyone is good at looking things up.) Which is why I 
brought Draco into it...we're starting to  sound just like him.
	Because if the problem is  that the list is too large, then why 
not split it on some other grounds besides old-timers and newbies...we 
could divide ourselves up by birthdays or alphabetical order or Chinese 
astrological signs...why suggest the members who haven't joined yet are 
the members we could most do without?
Pippin