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[Joywitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 3244

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Catlady <catlady at w...> wrote:
> Meanwhile, just how bad were things "when Voldemort was in power"? 
We
> hear that during the 11 years before That Halloween, Voldemort 
killed so
> many families that everyone was scared all the time, they couldn't 
even
> bear to say his name, no one trusted even their best friends because
> "anyone" (not just Slytherins) could have gone over to the Dark 
Side, or
> been put under the Imperius Curse by the Dark Side --- but the 
Quidditch
> World Cup still went on, people still had jobs and got married and 
sent
> their kids to school, the Marauders cared about their mischief 
making,
> and sneaking out of school to have fun, not about protecting their
> families from being attacked by the Dark Side....
> 
I think Rita has hit upon something important here that we havent 
discussed (imagine that!  an aspect of HP that we havent picked to 
death yet!).  Why IS everyone so scared of Voldy?  All we know is 
that he killed a bunch of people.  While that is pretty bad, is a 
wizard serial killer bad enough to put a whole society in such a 
fright?  Maybe it is, because I would guess that wizards are pretty 
hard to kill.  But it is interesting that JKR has done such a good 
job of convincing us that Voldy is EVIL and HORRIFYING without even 
really telling us that much about why.  Reminds me of Darth Vader - 
all he had to do was stroll on camera in the 1st Star Wars movie, all 
shiny-black-masked and tall, and snap that guys neck and we were all 
hiding under our beds.  I was anyway.

And, speaking of wizards being hard to kill, I was re-reading the end 
of PoA last night.  When Harry is contemplating killing Sirius Black 
(when Crookshanks jumps on Blacks chest)...what exactly is it that 
Harry was thinking that he was going to DO?  How does a 13 year old 
wizard know how to kill someone?  Obviously he didnt know how to do 
Avada Kedavra.  Was he going to turn Black into a pincushion?  Charm 
the axe in the corner to hack him to death? (yech)

--Joywitch