What is a beast-day 2

We now ask ourselves: which of these creatures is a “being” –
that is to say, a creature worthy of legal rights and a voice in the
governance of the magical world – and which is a “beast”?
Early attempts at deciding which magical creatures should be
designated “beasts” were extremely crude.
Burdock Muldoon, Chief of the Wizards’ Council（1 The Wizards’ Council preceded the Ministry of Magic.） in the
fourteenth century, decreed that any member of the magical
community that walked on two legs would henceforth be
granted the status of “being,” all others to remain “beasts.” In a
spirit of friendship he summoned all “beings” to meet with the
wizards at a summit to discuss new magical laws and found to his
intense dismay that he had miscalculated. The meeting hall was
crammed with goblins who had brought with them as many
two-legged creatures as they could find. As Bathilda Bagshot tells
us in A History of Magic: