Title: MINISTRY DECREES MANDATORY CENSUS
Description: 8 . 19 . 26 | DAILY PROPHET
TAYLOR - May 9, 2010 08:34 PM (GMT)
LONDON - THE MINISTRY OF MAGIC IS DETERMINED TO START THIS WEEK OFF WITH A BANG.
AS THE DAILY PROPHET CAN EXCLUSIVELY REPORT, THE MINISTRY ANNOUNCED EARLY THIS
MORNING THAT THE OFFICE OF THE MINISTER OF MAGIC WILL BE CONDUCTING A COUNTRY-
WIDE CENSUS OF ALL PERSONS OF MAGICAL ABILITY. THE CENSUS WILL INCLUDE STANDARD
QUESTIONS ABOUT NAME, DATE OF BIRTH, AND ADDRESS OF RESIDENCE. THERE IS ONLY ONE
SMALL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THIS CENSUS AND ONES IN YEARS PAST (THE LAST CENSUS OF
THIS SCALE WAS TAKEN IN 1998, SHORTLY AFTER THE END OF THE SECOND WAR). THE LEST-
RANGE ADMINISTRATION HAS CONTROVERSIALLY DECIDED TO ADD A NEW SECTION TO THE
CENSUS MANDATING THAT ALL PERSONS OF MAGICAL ABILITY PROVIDE A DETAILED DESC-
RIPTION OF THEIR FAMILY HISTORY, TRACING, WHEN APPLICABLE, THE HISTORY OF MAGIC IN
THEIR FAMILY. WIZARDS MUST THEN SELECT WHETHER THEY ARE A) PUREBLOODED, B) SQUIB,
C) PARTIAL-BLOODED, OR D) MUGGLEBORN. OVER A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AFTER HE-
WHO-MUST-NOT-BE-NAMED'S DEMISE, THE TOPIC OF BLOOD STATUSES IS STILL A TOUCHY
SUBJECT. WHILE THE MINISTER OF MAGIC'S OFFICE INSISTS THAT THIS ADDITION TO THE
CENSUS IS STRICTLY FOR THE SAKE OF UPDATING HISTORICAL RECORDS, MANY MUGGLE-
BORN RIGHTS GROUPS HAVE ALREADY BEGUN EXPRESSING THEIR ALARM. NOT MORE THAN
AN HOUR AFTER THE MINISTRY ANNOUNCED THEIR NEW CENSUS PLAN, A SPOKESPERSON
FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM CHAPTER OF THE MUGGLEBORN RIGHTS ASSOCIATION (MRA)
ISSUED A STATEMENT TO THE DAILY PROHPET SAYING, "THIS IS YOU-KNOW-WHO ALL OVER
AGAIN. FIRST THE MINISTRY MAKES A LIST OF WHO ALL THE MUGGLEBORNS AND HALF-
BLOODS ARE. WE ALL KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT. MUGGLEBORNS ARE SINGLED OUT,
SHUNNED FROM SOCIETY, STRIPPED OF THE INHERENT RIGHTS THEY POSSESS AS WIT-
CHES AND WIZARDS. THIS IS A COMPLETE AND UTTER DISGRACE ON THE LESTRANGE
ADMINISTRATION, WHICH PROMISED TO TREAT ALL WIZARDS AS EQUALS." THE DAILY
PROPHET WILL CONTINUE FOLLOWING THIS STORY AS THE WEEK PROGRESSES. FOR NOW,
WE STAND UNITED BEHIND OUR MINISTER OF MAGIC SOLINUS LESTRANGE AND TRUST
THAT ANYTHING HIS ADMINISTRATION IS DOING IS FOR THE BETTERMENT OF SOCIETY.
