The question before Me, Myself and I today is one that digs deep to the very foundations of Magical Society. It is one that I know will raise eyebrows, and perhaps even cause a few agitated letters to our esteemed Editor. But before you put quill to paper, Dear Reader, hear me out. Because the question is this: Is Quidditch Safe for our Children?
Leave alone the question of whether our most Precious Lives and our Hopes for Tomorrow are at risk merely by playing the game. It seems, as last year's tragic events at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry show, that our Young Ones are at risk from the Equipment! Although the Authorities have done their best to keep the situation hushed up, it is now clear that one boy's life was cut short and another (a brilliant Ravenclaw scholor) was reduced to state of a vegetable by what is being called an ‘unfortunate accident’ by the school’s so called Head Master, Bumbledore. (And no, that’s not a misprint, Dear Reader.)
I will leave the matter of whether a so called sport that involves the danger of broken linbs, repeted concussion and internal injuries is something our children should engage in to Wiser Heads. Because another question surrounding the Wizards’ Favorite Sport has come up. If the equipment can’t be trusted, can the Players?
This week sees the start of a trial which promises not only to put the reputation and name of a Quidditch player to the test, but stands as a trial of the whole sport. Because with this trial, we are forced to ask ourselves, What Kind of a Man plays professional Quidditch?
The charges against this man are of the most revolting kind. The suduction, molestation, abuse and Rape of an underage girl is nothing less than abominable. And the man (if we can call him that) is not Just Another Player. He is this past season's winner of the Dangerous Dai Llewellyn Memorial Best Player of the Year, Kaleb Broadmoor. The scion, we must also remember, of one of our community’s most honored Pureblood families. A Pureblood Hero who beats up and forces himself onto an innocent child?
Is this the kind of man we want our children to honor? To Praise? To (Merlin help us) to COPY? If you ask Me, Myself and I, the answer is a resounding NO!
(Tomorrow: The Making of a Hero?)







Jane Scrivener
Millicent Helen Skrumpkin