Longevity and Youth (was Re: Why Voldemort is a fascist..)

[Bex]

No: HPFGUIDX 109220

Eustace_Scrubb mused (thanks for the word, commented is getting 
boring):
> Then again, the WW's attitude toward history is another thing that
> gets me musing...it doesn't seem to be valued much academically, 
> does it?

Yb muses now:
Yes, definitely. Hogwarts has a ghost teaching History of Magic 
(which I'll bet is a really interesting class), and Binns is a pretty 
inattentive teacher: he never gets anyone's name right, and he 
doesn't seem to mind that everyone is falling asleep in his classes. 
Of course, who could blame them? I know lecture-only classes without 
a practical part or application are pretty sleep-inducing :).

Pl;us we have Fudge, who was fresh out of the box around the first 
war, and he refuses to believe (until it stares him in the face--
literally!!) that the one person who started it is back. Those who do 
not learn from history are doomed to repeat it, anyone? 

I'd like to know what the WW did during the first war: strategy, 
offensive or defensive position, how did they handle themselves? Were 
they like chickens minus heads? Obviously Aurors were employed, but 
they seemed to be doing a lot of their work after LV fell. (of 
course, that's all we are seeing and hearing about. The Order was 
established long before Halloween '81.) 

The Goblin Rebellions have been mentioned many times, and we all know 
that Goblins control the WW's pursestrings. What were these 
rebellions about? Does Fudge even care? Probably not: they 
are't "human", so they are below his notice. DD said that LV gained 
power by spreading distrust among the magical population. If LV can 
bring up these historical rifts that Binns covers in his class, he 
can probably get some people/creatures on his side that we don't want 
siding with him. If the MoM and Fudge, or the new Minister of Magic, 
can't learn from past mistakes, this war will be a lot more difficult.
I think those kids need to sit up and pay attention, because some of 
the stuff Binns is talking about could be important.

~Yb





> "To be without a history is like being forgotten...
> to be forgotten must be the worst fate of all."--poet Donald Hall, 
in
> String Too Short to Be Saved.