Manifesto: Stop the Outrageous Abuse of Our Fellow Magical Creatures and Campaign for a Change in Their Legal Status

Short-Term Aims: To secure house-elves fair wages, benefits, and good working conditions.

Long-Term Aims:

Rallying for a minimal magical and academic education for those elves who wish to pursue one

Changing the law about non-wand use

Getting an elf into the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, where they are shockingly underrepresented.

What S.P.E.W. Does Not Support:

The interruption of magical household or establishment without undue cause

The removal of a happy house-elf from a home or job with fair, cordial relations between Master and Elf, good working/living conditions, and/or

Pressuring an Elf (freed or no) whose has family secrets to keep to admit said secrets, though it may involve a history of house-elf abuse or other broken laws.

Despite the unignorable fact that house-elves are bound and indeed enslaved, most I have interviewed seem to express contentment at their position and have no desire to be educated or "set free," though many would benefit from an education. S.P.E.W., unlike some people seem to think, exists because there are house-elves who would like to pursue other options than a life of service and cannot; their bound life is a punishment for a crime never committed. I believe it is crucial to help the elves that wish for freedom or who are being unjustly treated, thus S.P.E.W.'s creation, and the House-Elf Outreach Programme.

Other information:

Meets weekly (or whenever, if there's exams!) in the library

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Leaflets: 1 free, or 15 sickles for every 10 leaflets (to help cover cost of production)