Winky's dismissal and wands

[Shauna]

No: HPFGUIDX 46972

Rebecca Stephens wrote:

> They, intelligent beings, are being deprived of
> certain tools.  And it's not just them.  Am I the only
> one disturbed by the fact that wizards only allow
> themselves wands and no one else?  Seems very
> human-centric to me.  I think we'll come to discover
> that humans are by far the least magical of magical
> creatures.  They offset that by the use of wands.  And
> they handicap every other species so that they can
> even the playing field.  And that isn't right.  It's
> like all the below par artists refusing art education
> and artist tools from the average and great artists
> and making the poor souls use their fingers.
>

I think JKR is setting up a parallel between the "good" wizards 
repression of non-human magical creatures and the "bad" 
wizards repression of non-magical humans (and their magical 
descendants). 

Think of all the help the "good" side could get from non-human 
creatures - from the giants, from the elves, from Remus Lupin, 
even.  I think the "good" side is going to have to come clean 
about their hypocricy before JKR will allow them to win.

~ Shauna