Things better for House Elves? - People Against Themselves.
Steve
bboyminn at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 31 19:28:33 UTC 2005
No: HPFGUIDX 126893
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, tyler maroney <tmar78 at y...> wrote:
> Lindsay:
>
> Steve beat me to it, but yes, ...
> I also imagine a lot of Death Eater owners were thrown in Azkaban as
> well, and the rest of the family they then served were not so cruel,
> or at least, on their best behavior.
> Tyler:
> But according to OotP, only 10 DEs were in Azkaban and there were
> at least 30 present when Voldemort was rejuvenated. Surely that
> wouldn't have made much of a difference? ... If the HE pop.
> for the whole country is a thousand or less, maybe it would have
> had a huge impact.
>
> Okay, I guess that mystery is solved! :)
bboyminn:
Let's not forget the mob-mentality that comes into play. As Voldemort
and the Death Eaters grew more lawless, the general population,
especially those who were somewhat sympathetic to Voldemort alledged
Pureblood philosophy, would have also become more lawless. Although
subconscious, people would have felt that either the DE's or the
anonymity of the crowd would have protected them from repercussions.
More so, I think it is a case of people acting on there subconsious
urges which are re-enforced and validated by the actions of others,
that leads people to do cruel things that they wouldn't otherwise dare
to do.
Given this, I think the cruel sense of superiority would have spread
beyond the top level Death Eaters. You need only look at the action of
normal citizens in Hitler's Germany, Pol-Pot's Cambodia or parts of
todays Middle East to see it doesn't take much to turn a population
against itself.
Just a thought.
steve/bboyminn
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