by DrT - Sahits

Harry broke the mood. "You may check with the goblins, if you wish."
"You seem to be friendly with them," Dumbledore managed to probe.
"I am," Harry answered. "I believe in a much more democratic wizarding world than you do, and a
more cooperative magical one as well." He shrugged. "In any case, you know your options. Oh, and
the Grangers are visiting me for the week. Where we're staying is under the Fidelius, so questioning
them, even under Legilimency or a truth potion, wouldn't help. Please keep an eye on the
dementors; they allowed the Death Eaters in Azkaban to escape in late autumn. Oh, and Hagrid's
mission to the giants will fail. A few of the remaining giants showed up next summer. You might
want to get the International involved."
"What can we do? Giants are by nature dangerous, perhaps even vicious, and I really do believe
there is almost no chance of them surviving much longer as a species. At current count, there are
likely less than a hundred, perhaps less than seventy, and nearly all of them are females."
"Grab all the largest, most aggressive males left and set them in a fight to see who gets all the
females, let them kill each other, and then kill the winner," Harry said. Dumbledore's eyes went
wide. "Only let the few that aren't so aggressive or who are a lot smaller survive. Then split the
women up evenly with the few remaining males and set them in separate reserves. See if there are
any wizards as crazy as Hagrid's father to mate with a few of the women if any are interested."
Harry grinned, "I'd hate the first part as much as you, but it might allow the giants to survive as a
species, even if a little selective breeding helped them down-size a little and have a little less
aggression. As for the second, I think the wizarding gene pool could use a bit more giant blood in
it."
"A practical, if immoral, solution," Dumbledore agreed.
"Is it really more immoral than letting them all die out?" Harry asked. "I know enough to know each
is immoral on a different level, but not enough to know which is worse." Harry shrugged. "We, well
'we' meaning the wizarding world, would then have to keep splitting the groups up and culling some
of the males, so there is only ever one relatively unaggressive male per female group. New females
would have to be sent to the other groups, most new males would have to be killed or castrated
young or else they'd just restart the internal cycle of slaughter. It would take an on-going effort, and
most would object to helping giants survive in the first place, and the others would have the moral
qualms we feel, or more likely have the same objections that would first occur to Hermione."
"True," Dumbledore agreed.
"So, I'm sure the real wizarding response will be to do nothing, except kill any giants deemed to
have gone 'rogue', and then congratulate themselves for being tolerant of the dwindling number of
survivors," Harry went on. "We're doing similar things, in less violent ways, to the merpeople and
centaurs and most other magical creatures and beings, as the Muggles slowly take over their
environment." Harry looked downcast. "Even if wizarding world survives, the magical world isn't
likely to, except a few small pockets. Right?"
"Very likely," Dumbledore agreed. "Granted, large tracks of North and South America, and
Australia for that matter, are magically protected, the rest of the magical world has been very
careless, especially in Europe and north Africa." He sighed sadly.
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