[HPforGrownups] Re: OT: Drill Sargeant (with a tiny bit of ontopic talk...)

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 94747

In a message dated 3/31/2004 11:15:33 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
dumbledore11214 at yahoo.com writes:
Even if Dumbledore secretly believed that Voldie will 
come back all these years (that begs the question though why he hired 
those grossly incompetent DADA teachers, if he wanted to prepare 
chidren for upcoming war), Hogwarts is not an "auror" training 
school, it is a civilian institution and eleven year olds come there 
not to start their military training (although theyc an sure do it 
later, if they want to)

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Sherrie here:

No, they're not all going to be Aurors - but neither will the war be fought 
only BY Aurors.  VW II is NOT going to be a CNN war, where some fight with 
smart bombs & other "clean" weapons while most watch Wolf Blitzer commentate  - 
it's going to be an old-fashioned, down-&-dirty war, where no one can afford to 
stand aloof, because the fighting's going to be in YOUR town, on YOUR street, 
in YOUR yard...  It's going to be Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Stalingrad - and 
these children are future citizens of the Wizarding World - most of them, if 
we are correct and Hogwarts becomes a battleground, will see combat before 
they graduate (some before they have to shave). Every one of them had better be 
ready to fight, when - not IF - the time comes.

My two Knuts (okay, maybe three this time) - as ever, YMMV.

Sherrie
"Unless history lives in our present, it has no future." 
PRESERVE OUR CIVIL WAR BATTLEFIELDS!


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