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

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 180664

a_svirn:
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> 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. 


Alla:

Blinks. Surely you cannot speak for the whole russian population? I 
mean, I am not being sarcastic, but this generalisation strikes me 
as not fair. I am speaking only for the existance of the people who 
had no idea whatsoever.

Let me say it again - they did not think that 
it did not concern them, they just did not know that it was 
happening. 
 I mean I am sure some people knew just thought it did not concern 
them, but some did not know at all.

Especially if one lived in villages and had nothing to do with the 
opposition to the regime whatsoever. My grandmother is dead, so I 
cannot even ask her again, but I remember that conversation very 
well.

She did not know and neither did anybody in their family and I am 
sure 
lots of people were in the same situation. I also remember reading 
some documentaries about people who did not know, but cannot bring 
the 
links alas.

So, I can imagine same being true for british wizards. After all  
even 
WW being small as it is, Voldemort does not seem to have manpower to 
target every wizarding family or even every second one.

Except when they are torturing and killing for fun, Voldemort seems 
to 
be going after someone who is direct threat to him. I do not think 
he 
considered whole WW to be such.

Alla