Thank you for your response.

I am not suggesting that events such as these have no place in the news, and am disheartened that this is what you took from my previous letter. I suggest, instead, that the culpability for these tragic events lies less with the individual werewolves who may be involved (which, in many cases, we merely assume to be the case instead of looking for any concrete sort of proof; it is quite easy for a wizard who wishes to get away with murder to time it correctly and stage whatever they please) and more with the society which continually drives them into the shadows and forces them to pursue desperate measures in order to keep those around them safe.

I have been fortunate enough to become acquainted with many werewolves through my research, and I have found them to be, in a word, exceptionally human. They care deeply about those they love, and make choices (some frighteningly difficult and even incomprehensible to the average witch or wizard) in order to protect them while struggling desperately to maintain some sense of normalcy, which society fights tooth and nail to strip from them at every opportunity. Every werewolf is capable of great harm, but so to is every untrained witch or wizard. As a society, we ought to be less concerned with making an already difficult life harder and more concerned with supporting and aiding werewolves who wish to abide by the same rules of civilized society to do so safely and comfortably.

When tragic events such as the Cambridgeshire murder occur, we may choose to reinforce the same narrative which society has upheld for centuries — that this is the work of some cold, heartless beast and that situations like this are fully beyond our control — or we could shed light on the truth of the matter, which is that these things are not the work of monsters, unless they are monsters of our own creation; that they are preventable, and we have simply failed through ignorance and prejudice to prevent them.

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