[HPforGrownups] Backlash?

[SnapesSlytherin at aol.com]

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Megan:
     Something I have always wondered about in the HP books is the lack of backlash from the mixed-blood wizard community regarding the persecution that the Death Eaters and their sympathizers level at them. A lot of this comes from the fact that I live in a town full of violence and racial tension, but it still seems an odd omission.
 
 What I'm trying to say here is that even the most noble causes will have their extremists. I don't understand why there are no insults in the books characterizing all pure-bloods as inbred freaks, or diversity-minded vigilantes going and Avada Kedavra-ing pureblood families in the dead of night. That's what happens in the real world, and I think it would be interesting to see Harry and the other heroes have to deal with people on "their" side using Dark tactics against the Death Eaters.
 
 Oryomai (me): Can they afford to be open? The set up of Voldy and his DEs is that anyone who defies him is immediately killed (attempts to kill in the case of the Potters and apparently Longbottoms). This is a choice between what is right and what is easy in a way. It would be right for everyone who disagreed with Voldy to stand up and say so. It's easier (kinda, sorta...) to fight him underground. You have a chance of surviving that way. Even if some things are so eternally true they're worth dying for, who would be left to fight if we all did? 
  Oryomai Who is VP of the Gay-Straight Alliance at her college and has to stand down so things can get done (even if she thinks it's wrong).
    
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