No Muggle Borns?

[Sarah]

I'm interested in joining, but in the rules for applying it said something about no Muggle borns (and non-British, but I don't really mind that part).

Do you mean, no Muggle borns (as in, "both my parents are Muggles but I'm a witch oh wow!") or Muggles ("I have no idea why I'm here since I'm in no way magical but it's cool regardless!")? I just want to clarify, because one of my ideas for a character is Muggle born and it kind of ruins my main plot line for her if no Muggle borns are being admitted.

Just checking. ^_^

P.S.,

No Muggle borns being allowed into Hogwarts would be discrimination, right?

[Little Lily]

Hello Sarah!

Now, I'm not a staff member and you'll want to wait for McGonagall to confirm, but that rule means "both my parents are Muggles but I'm a witch oh wow!" Muggleborns. The only reason we had that rule was because there were a significant number of muggleborns, making up a larger percent of the population than they should have. HOWEVER, I believe that rule was put up a while ago, and we have added to our numbers of no-muggle borns since then, and thus I don't know if that has been recently reevaluated.

And of course Muggleborns are still allowed at Hogwarts, else Lily wouldn't be here! Now, how long that will last is another story...

[Minerva McGonagall]

Hi Sarah,

The no muggle-born and no non-British character rule is, as Lily said, in place because we have a lot of muggle-borns in the game, especially concentrated around the school, and they are meant to be quite special and rare. We've put a cap on it for now so there aren't too many -- if they weren't in the minority, the Death Eaters wouldn't be a problem after all! Lily's right, we did make an exception a little while back to let an adult muggle-born into the game (so we'd have a grand total of two outside of Hogwarts!), but we do have quite a lot now and the cap is in place.

And don't worry Lils, your filthy lot kind are safe for now!