LV's reign from the older Weasleys

[harpdreamer]

No: HPFGUIDX 32012

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Aja <aromano at i...> wrote:

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> 
> > Something I'm wondering: the kids of Harry's generation don't 
seem to know
> much at all about the way things were when Voldemort was in power. 
They
> wind up hearing most of their information first hand from grownups.
> Wouldn't the older Weasleys have been old enough--i'm not sure 
about Bill
> and Charlie's ages, but I'm guessing they'd've been around 8 or 9 
at the
> time Voldemort was vanquished--wouldn't they have been able to 
provide a
> lot more info to their younger siblings about what times were like 
when 
> Dark Lord was around? If nothing else, it sounds like something a 
younger
> Bill would have used to scare Percy, Gred and Forge on Halloween, 
and been
> passed down as a kind of lore.  We don't hear a lot about that 
aspect of
> Voldemort's first reign, and that puzzles me.  Thoughts on why this 
is?
> 
> Aja


Excellent question, Aja!  

It may be that those times were just too scary to be talked about 
much.  Hagrid says that you didn't dare trust strange witches or 
wizards and Sirius tells the Trio that you didn't know who to trust 
(truthfully, as it turned out). 

I know people who were in WWII and Viet Nam who just didn't talk 
about what happened. Brought back too many painful memories.    

We may see those times talked about now that Mouldy Voldy is in human 
form again.  

Peace & Plenty, 

Parker