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But it’s better to be called a being than a beast, isn’t it?            Remus laughs long and harsh at that one. It isn’t pleasant.                   Firenze says, somewhat distantly, we have read the future in the stars and then falls silent.            Sanguini explains, a little. They tell you it is an honour. You are a being. You can think. Bon. I did not know that, I needed a wizard to tell me that. You are excited, you celebrate. This is the beginning of something new, you think. No more hiding. Then it starts. First, they ask you to sign here and sign there, so you sign, because why not? You are no animal - you can think as well as any wizard, you are a being just as them. Then they ask you to give them your names. Instead of a name you get a number. You have to remember this, it is important. Then they smile at you and tell you are dangerous so you must report to them and let them know where you are. What you are doing. That too you do. It appears on your papers. You are a being. You show that to people, they turn pale, paler than the oldest vampire and they inch away - polite, but it is there. You show that to employers and they politely tell you that the job is taken. The wizard who goes in after you gets the job. You look at your papers and tell yourself, ah but I am a being, I can think. But it is not enough. Then they look at your wands and look at you. You can smell the fear. They take those away too. For the good of society. But we can think and that is all that matters no? You know what the highest cause of death among vampires is, Mr Scamander? Hmmm? Bounty hunters? Werewolf attacks? Wizards defending themselves? Wrong! It is murder and suicide. That is what my people have fallen to. But we are beings, not beasts and that is something to be thankful for, si? -- source link

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