[ EU ] The Harry Potter Earth 50 years after wizards and witches make themselves publicly known to the muggles .

**The List - An Interview with the last remaining Muggle. ** 
 
 *Re-printed with permission from the Wizarding Times. * 
 
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 I have a list. 
 
 My father gave it to me the day of the announcement. I was seven years old – far too young to understand what was going on – so to make it easy for me he wrote a list of everything he thought I should “ say goodbye ” to. 
 
 At first I thought he was just trying to scare me. The list contained pretty much everything I loved – even dumb things like “ the swings and slide in the park ”. Then, one day I was at the park, and some group of kids did some – you know, magic, and next thing I knew I was being rushed to hospital. They were trying to play a harmless prank, but turning a kids left arm into a lizard ’ s arm is not something the NHS was ever set up to deal with. Terrified, the doctors and nurses removed the arm before the damage spread, but I never went back to that park. Another name off the list. 
 
 I ’ d always dreamed of owning a racing car – I mean, who doesn ’ t at that age? I remember seeing my last petrol station at age twenty. Petrol was so very expensive, and Wizards had flooded the market with all sorts of potions that replaced petrol, and weird gadgets that could replace parts of cars – and eventually cars as a whole – that well, cars just stopped being made. Another thing off the list. 
 
 But that was the least of our problems. My uncle Peter was a reverend at a small village church in Scotland. Everyone in the village loved him, and his little church would fill up every sunny Sunday with people who just wanted to be there and be together. Some of them were convinced that Christianity was real. Most were just glad to have something in their lives that brought people together, regardless of the historical voracity of the Bible. When that was taken away from them, things took a turn for the worst. 
 
 Many churches and religions disbanded soon after the announcement, leaving only the larger, more powerful, and often more fundamental ones screaming in the faces of this new perceived threat. The wizarding world caused three major issues that lead to the world as we know it today. The first problem was that the mere existence of real Witches and Wizards caused them to be labelled as enemies of god. Churches either labelled them as deserving of death, or the church would have to renounce its own beliefs. Secondly, the magical world had genuine power – unlike most religious groups. This caused terrorism and conflicts and general disharmony the likes of which had never been known before. Finally, the wizarding world made a break-through of sorts that had the potential to cross every other name off of my list prematurely. 
 
 Knowing that a world war was inevitable, the magical world proposed a last-ditch scheme to protect as many people as possible. Aaron Potter – grandson of ( well I needn ’ t say ) – created the most important potion in history – the Elixir of Erquilenne. This Elixir had the unprecedented effect of permenantly transforming muggles into Witches and Wizards – and it had a 100 % success rate. They offered the Elixir to everyone, everywhere, free of charge. All you had to do was say the magic words and your potion would appear. 
 
 The Elixir of Erquilenne served to force the issue to a head – now the world could make a collective decision as to whether muggles should exist at all. It wasn ’ t easy and it wasn ’ t fast, but over the course of the next 30 years the world became a fully magical place. Of course not everyone took the Elixir, but those who did not tended to die either in conflicts ( usually started by they themselves as they lashed out against the Wizards they hated ) or were just very very old. 
 
 Over those years I crossed many more things off the list – from specific people, to things like the internet, aeroplanes – but I refused to cross the last thing off of the list. To this day I refuse. Because If I were to take the Elixir, I would prove my father correct in his statement that I would observe all these things die in my lifetime. That is why I am the last muggle. Because when my father gave me that list, I told myself that that the day the last item was crossed off of the list would be the day I die. The last item was humanity. 

