Suspension of disbelief -Idiots of War

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 182430

---  "dumbledore11214" <dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
>
> Pippin:
> <SNIP>
> But what I was really thinking of was Neville, looking so 
> beat up when McGonagall hadn't a scratch on her. And I 
> thought Alla's point, though I can't speak for her, was 
> that it seems so weird and wrong for Dumbledore to ask 
> these young people to fight for him. ...
> <SNIP>
> 

bboyminn:

Well, on this point, Dumbledore did not ask Neville or any
of the other students to fight for /him/. Instead they 
volunteered to fight for themselves.

> Alla:
> 
> ...
> 
> It is the action of the society as a whole I find weird and
> wrong. 
> ...
> 
> ...
> 
> Hmmm, I am sure you have examples of entire nations being 
> paralyzed, and could it please not be Stalinist Russia  or 
> Franko Spain? Because to me there is a huge difference of 
> peace times where millions had been put in prisons and dead,
> but at the same time there are a lot of people who are pretty
> happy with the regime  and war time. 

bboyminn:

Oddly, this precisely describes what did happen and what is
happening in the wizard world. This is not a declared war
with battle grounds and front lines. This is a country at
peace being taken over from the inside. 


> Alla:
> Of the top of my head I do not remember the example of entire
> nation being paralyzed when war, especially OFFENSIVE war had
> been lunched upon them. Nations get concurred, oh sure they do,
> but not as a result of  EVERYBODY doing nothing IMO.
> 
> 

bboyminn:

How about Russia and Spain? How about Bruma, Laos, and
Cambodia? How about many many starving nations in Africa that
perpetually go from dictator to tyrant? How about similar
nations in South America? How about El Salvador? Bolivia? Chile?
How about the many Eastern European nations that suffered under
the boot heel of Russia? How about the Croatian/Serbian conflict? 
How about ancient Rome? Ancient Greece? Armenia? 

And since the example has come up so many times, how about 
France? How about Poland? How about Germany? How about any of
the countries occupied by the Nazis in WWI and WWII? 

Really, history is littered with examples.

Steve/bboyminn