Favour the wolves!
- Article written by Lexi B. Lemon (Second year, Hogwart School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.)

Witches and wizards with lycanthropy have been long fighting for the mere purpose of being accepted into the community without any discrimination and whether it is favored or not, werewolves are still human beings. They are classified and identified as such with the exception of the temporary and short time that they spend as werewolves. This is a disease that they have no choice or control over and the fact that there should even be an argument to enforce a such policy against discriminating against someone for something beyond them is something to be deeply thought about beyond politics.

To begin with, Lycanthropy is a serious disease that affects someone that has been bitten by another werewolf in their full wolf form. It is important to note that witches and wizards with lycanthropy disease only are affected during the full moon period at night when the moon is at its peak energy. When this happens they are overtaken by a wolf-like form and a beast-like mind but somehow different from an actual wolf. It is understandable that this is one of the factors that other people find most concerning due to the lack of humanity and moral consciousness, but this isn’t always the case as there are potions; such as wolfsbane, to help the werewolves mind resist the disease factors which means that even if they do transform they will still be themselves only the body would be different, but even without a potion, precautions are always taken beforehand.

However, this disease has no cure and cannot be reversed. This means that once the person is infected then they carry it for the rest of their lives and they learn to live with it. Taking that into consideration, imagine how painful and agonizing the process of transformation is on its own to the affected person. Their body and limbs change and break to turn into something twice their being and their brain is overtaken and clouded by a wolf-like creature. It’s considered somewhat as if they would dissociate from their being an entirely new creature takes over.

In addition to the physical and mental pain the witches and wizards go through with their disease, they are then met with members of their own community rejecting and discriminating against them to the extent that some would refuse to even be surrounded by them and would rather they would die than exist in the first place. This is deeply rooted in fear of and misinformation on the disease and having such a policy would further educate and assure both parties that they are safe.

To conclude, the world is constantly evolving and growing and with all that being said, enforcing this policy would benefit the movement greatly and help many suffering werewolves in the community into getting a chance to have a normal better life despite their struggle, so they would not have to lie about their identity in order to fit in and that they could be part of the community as anyone else rather than urging them to identify themselves for further hate and disrespect. This policy might perhaps aid the progress in finding a cure in the long run.