[HPforGrownups] Re: Lots of Topics

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 3371


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Susan McGee" <Schlobin at aol.com>
To: <HPforGrownups at egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 12:20 AM
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Lots of Topics


> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Joywitch " <joym999 at a...> wrote:
> > --- 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
> 
> Well, I lived in Ann Arbor during the year and a half when we had a 
> serial rapist/killer. In the summer, the streets were mostly deserted.
> There were no women walking alone. A few mixed gender couples. But 
> mostly people went around in crowds. Women jogged together. The fear 
> was palpable.
> 
> Voldemort killed and tortured a lot of people. The terror was in
> the uncertainty -- who would be next? Anyone was vulnerable. 
> Voldemort was "taking over" according to Sirius Black. No one was 
> sure who could be trusted. Hogwarts was a small island of safety 
> (like Britain in WWII) besieged, surrounded. 
> 
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