Slytherins come back WAS: Re: My Most Annoying Character/Now Rowling's control

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 180661

> Pippin:
> In real life he wouldn't have the Imperius curse so he wouldn't
> be able to make people obey him without training them.  Not 
> only are many of the the visible agents of Voldemort's will 
innocent, 
> they can't be intimidated by the punishment of other collaborators. 
> So the WW takeover is faster. 
> 
> But the end result is the same: ruthless suppression of opposition 
> and an atmosphere of distrust make it impossible to organize a
> meaningful resistance. 
> 
> 
> Alla has answered  in regard to Stalinist Russia but I'll add that 
the 
> same thing happened with Nazi Germany. People not directly involved 
> did not realize the scope of what was happening. For example, the 
NY 
> Times printed thousands of stories about what is now called The 
Holocaust, 
> but it was never treated as major news.

That doesn't mean that ordinary Germans didn't have an inkling of 
what was going on.   They did alright, and so did Russians, they just 
thought that it didn't concern them. And like in Stalin's Soviet 
Union or in Hitler's Germany, the British wizards couldn't possibly 
fail to notice that their neighbours and their children's school-
mates were disappearing. Especially since there weren't that many of 
them – the WW is a very small world indeed. 

a_svirn