Many famiies have two parents, and having the blessings of children shouldn't mean that one of them has to give up their hopes and dreams to stay at home with the little ones.

Creating a magical daycare/pre-school system would address this issue, and it would also provide the necessary supervised socialization opportunities that so many youngsters these days lack.

Continuing on with this ideal, I would also establish a unified pre-Hogwarts educational system by creating a primary and secondary school for children to attend in Hogsmeade, as well as providing the same education via an online learning option for those traditionalists who wish to stay at home with their children.

It's important that all children have the same opportunities and standards of education..much like they have in the muggle world. A unified school system would be the solution to this.

Standardized testing would be done so that every child has the requirements met to attend further (magical) education, as well as the opportunity to interact with their peers, so as to become well on their way to being well adjusted members of our society.

This educational reform would create many new jobs as well, as positions from teachers and day care specialists to support and advisory personnel would need to be filled.

In summation, the children are our future, and we owe it to them, and ourselves, to make that as bright as possible.

Many witches and wizards had and have to suffer under decisions made under false circumstances. I'm specifically referring to former Professor and gamekeeper of Hogwarts, Rubeus Hagrid. He was stripped off his wand rights after he got wrongly accused of being responsible for keeping the creature that murdered Myrtle Elizabeth Warren, commonly known to Hogwarts students as the Moaning Myrtle. It was also forbidden to him to visit school lessons anymore.

Although Rubeus Hagrid's good name was established after the Second Wizarding War, he didn't retain his wand rights and also had no chance to made up the missed classes and years of education. This is something I would change for all people if I were Minister for Magic. Considering the fact that every witch and wizard has inborn magic, they are - under certain circumstances - able to use this magic, even without a wand, which leads me to the point that a proper education to use their magic through a wand should be required. Stripping a person off her or his wand rights simply results in possible accidents, coming from uncontrolled emotions. For the special case of expelled students who got their wands taken away by the ministry, I'd issue a law that ensures the possibility of visiting the school again after a complex inspection of the person's intentions - or, when people are older, special courses which provide a fundamental knowledge, similar to the one at Hogwarts. These courses and the inspection could even build a new department in the Ministry of Magic - and therefore create many new jobs. In my opinion, it is important to teach every witch or wizard the proper use of magic, even if they did something wrong. Making magic is not strictly bound to wands - therefore the proper education to use it in a correct way is even more important.

If I were to become the Minister of Magic the first thing I would change would be to place magic children who are orphans in an environment that understands them better. Muggle orphanages are not suited to help maintain Wizarding Secrecy. When I was attacked by a werewolf, I was force to living in Saint Mungo's for a year. This is because they could not send me back to the Muggle orphanage and had nothing in place for orphaned wizards. It was a rather lonely year.

Furthermore, I would help make the relations between werewolves (and other would half breeds be correct word here?) and the community. Better understanding of the victims of lycanthropy and how the disease affects loved one would help lessen the fear I hope. Everyone at Hogwarts has been great but still people aren't always the most open and fear us. Many of us werewolves never asked for this and would love nothing more than to take a potion and never again shift. Loved ones would never have to watch in horror as the bones crack and the painful transformations happen three times a month. Maybe further cooperation and understanding with the rest of the magical community would lead to a cure?

Magnus looked over his essay and frowned, it did not really sound like much to him but it was the best he had.

She had no platform as such and was happy for the status quo to remain for the present. She had no doubt that changes should be made to many aspects of the wizarding community but she felt that if she were to become the Ministry of Magic things would have to be taken slowly and she would have to feel 100% that the change was a necessary and more importantly make a vital differerence to the wizarding world.

	My platform, if I were to be Minster of Magic, would be to bring equality to all magical kin and to technologically modernize to help bring our community into an ever changing world.

My first point, which focuses on bringing us together as a community, discuss the belief that house elves, goblins, and many other magical kin deserve to be on equal standing with wizards. In the past a lot of animosity and tension has existed between both parties. I believe that every magical person deserves the same rights and wages as wizards. I also believe that those who possess the potential should be allowed access to schooling and other employment opportunities. Breaking down the walls of division I believe will build a stronger community.

Which brings me to my next point, which is technologically modernizing our world. I believe with a collaborative effort, with technomancy, we can successfully create our own wizarding internet and a cellphone system. This will help to offer a standardized educational program for homebound students as well as expand our communication and information. My ambitions lead me to hope this will bring not just our community together but that it will expand to our fellow witches and wizards throughout the world. Of course, all precautions would be taken to keep our society and children safe.

I also believe the ignorance of the wizarding community about muggles is what makes them look at them as inferior and make other wizards repulse the muggle born wizards. There are many things we could learn from the muggles and I think muggles should be the ones explaining us their world and behavior. I am not saying to tell the muggles we exist but those muggles that do know we exist could collaborate with our mutual understanding so in the near future there would be peace between the two and all wizards can love and appreciate each other equally even if born and raised originally as a muggle.

There should also be help provided to those wizard families with less economic advantages than others, for example families in which the head is an old man or woman that can't work anymore but still have to support themselves. Lonely mothers without a great income that have lost their husbands and now have one or more children under their care, or families of too many children. They can have tasks assign to them in order to get the help, the task being something that the person can do depending on their physical condition. Our community still has many flaws and if we all cooperate it could become even greater than it already is.

Despite the modern times where relations between Humans and so-called Half-Breeds are at an all time high, after the fiasco I read about with Professor Umbridge and a herd of Centaurs, the wizarding community still has an inherrant fear of Werewolves. I know we are naturally dangerous at the full moon, with with all the medical advances over the last decades and continued use of Wolfsbane, we can be perfectly safe.

So, I would like to see a future Minister for Magic focus on improving the relations between the Wizarding community and the Werewolf community. Prevent them from being shunned from the small Wizarding villages, and allow them to be more integrated. I know that will take years to develop, but anything would be a start.

While Kingsley Shacklebolt is a model figure in addressing blood purity discrimination as well as uprooting the blatant corruption that has poisoned government infrastructure, there are still many old, oftentimes unspoken, cultural practices in place that prohibit wise, experienced individuals from acquiring positions of power both within government and other places as a whole. These include, of course, discrimination due to race, class, gender, and species.

I believe it takes the spirit of a social movement and a society that learns to critically think for itself, and also to take accountability for its actions--simple declarations from a Minister of Magic won't and can't unravel such a vast, deep-rooted system of privilege. But a Minister can do a lot in creating a culture where these things can be more frequently talked about and communicated. Raising up the voices of oppressed and silenced individuals instead of just focusing on the mainstream "version" of what the average citizen looks like is a disservice to our world's integrity.

Her biggest issue right now is that different magical species do not have rights. A lot of Wizards/Witches think themselves above the masses because they are “human,” however there are wizards/witches who are not fully human who do wonderful amazing things.

She knows for a fact that there are werewolves in this very class – and yet out in the world they would be look down upon and not trusted. House-elves are mere servants, and even the intelligent centaurs are looked upon as less. This needs to stop. She would make sure that every species of magical being would have rights. A committee would be made with heads for each subsection of being so everyone would have someone to speak for them.

Another thing Gwen is very passionate about is Muggle/Magical relations. She thinks it is time that wizards/witches know more about muggles. They need to interact with them more and understand how they do things. It is important to create friendships with muggles because she believes we could all benefit from each other.