Oz rather thought the first and most important step in 'helping' anyone inflicted with lycanthropy was talking about them a good deal less. He couldn't claim to know how the average werewolf felt about most things, since he had never met one personally (at least as far as he knew) but he imagined that keeping their face off the front page of the Daily Prophet was probably at the top of their list of priorities. That being said, he could hardly state that as his policy. Dempsey on werewolves: just ignore them and hope they go away, the headline of the politics section might read.

"We can't exactly do anything to help them when the majority are unregistered," he pointed out. This might perhaps be a controversial statement with the hardcore supporters of werewolf rights (which this lad might be among, based on the phrasing of his question — it was hard to tell), but it seemed self-evident to Oz that any policies designed to actually help a group of people would necessitate first knowing who that group of people was. "So incentivizing the registry would be the first step."

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