Which, finally, brings me to my point. What I was trying to explore in this drabble trilogy, especially in Once More and I Will Not Forsake, was the idea that because the wounds of the First War are still festering under the surface of Wizarding Society, most everyone is almost literally born to their place in the Second War. Marcus is on Voldemort's side not necessarily because he truly believes in Voldemort's cause, but because his father was, and Flint Sr spent most of Marcus' childhood and teenaged years as a bitter man, convinced that he'd been cheated out of things (social position, money) that were rightfully his if it hadn't been for the First War, and it's difficult to go against that sort of thing even when one is an adult, I think. Percy, OTOH, is in a way upholding his family name--he "takes it almost as a personal affront", tries to be his father, in a way, almost like Marcus is trying to be/become what his father never was. And I'm rambling now.
Getting back to what I said in the beginning, many HP fanfics mention a backlash and paranoia against, say, Draco, but I never see the more subtle consequences that WW2 had parallelled in the fanfic discriptions of the aftermath of the Second War: the paranoia, the "nazi whores," head shaven and locked in cages, the accusations of collaboration that are still affecting people in Belgium even today, etc. I think perhaps (and this is me playing amateur antropologist, but) it's that very few HP fanfic writers are from continental Europe, and they forget that there's a difference between fighting a war somewhere else, or even having your own cities bombed by airplanes, and actually having been occupied by the enemy, which, effectively is what the Wizarding World was/will be under Voldemort.
I can't help wondering what the influence of the war against Grindelwald had upon the first war with Voldemort -- were the same parties, or at least their offspring, involved?
This is purely my own opinion, and I don't know that I've any basis for this, but I've a feeling that Grindewald was much more an "old school" World-dominating Wizard Wannabe, that he worked on his own with perhaps a handful of minions, but not playing on people's prejudices and fears the way Voldemort did. Grindewald, I think, just wanted power.
Slowly, however, we're discovering why they were Sorted into Gryffindor. It all starts making sense.
Especially since OP, I personally think the Hat considers it more important where you want to be sorted than where you should be sorted, as it were. It's not so much about where your talents lie, but about what's important to you.
And oh, yes, he seems to have gone over to, well, a semi-dark side, betraying his family in the process (though I'm not quite convinced as I've explained once before, if you remember), which in JKR's world seems to be a Slytherin thing to do. But. She even has him looking through books about Prefects who want to gain power, for goodness' sake. Can you scream Slytherin even louder? So I'm really waiting for the other shoe to drop. What is it that makes Percy a Gryffindor?
Well, see above, but also, I think going against your family to do what you think is right takes a great deal of courage, and I do think that Percy believes (believed?) that what he is (was) doing is (was) right. Which is why I'm so afraid of Percy. I've always liked him well enough, but I had this undetermined, uneasy feeling about him, and then from about a third through GF, it occured to me that Percy would make the perfect unknwling pawn for Voldemort. "Ich habe es nicht gewust," indeed. (And I'm sure my spelling of that was shite, but there you go.)
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Which, finally, brings me to my point. What I was trying to explore in this drabble trilogy, especially in Once More and I Will Not Forsake, was the idea that because the wounds of the First War are still festering under the surface of Wizarding Society, most everyone is almost literally born to their place in the Second War. Marcus is on Voldemort's side not necessarily because he truly believes in Voldemort's cause, but because his father was, and Flint Sr spent most of Marcus' childhood and teenaged years as a bitter man, convinced that he'd been cheated out of things (social position, money) that were rightfully his if it hadn't been for the First War, and it's difficult to go against that sort of thing even when one is an adult, I think. Percy, OTOH, is in a way upholding his family name--he "takes it almost as a personal affront", tries to be his father, in a way, almost like Marcus is trying to be/become what his father never was. And I'm rambling now.
Getting back to what I said in the beginning, many HP fanfics mention a backlash and paranoia against, say, Draco, but I never see the more subtle consequences that WW2 had parallelled in the fanfic discriptions of the aftermath of the Second War: the paranoia, the "nazi whores," head shaven and locked in cages, the accusations of collaboration that are still affecting people in Belgium even today, etc. I think perhaps (and this is me playing amateur antropologist, but) it's that very few HP fanfic writers are from continental Europe, and they forget that there's a difference between fighting a war somewhere else, or even having your own cities bombed by airplanes, and actually having been occupied by the enemy, which, effectively is what the Wizarding World was/will be under Voldemort.
I can't help wondering what the influence of the war against Grindelwald had upon the first war with Voldemort -- were the same parties, or at least their offspring, involved?
This is purely my own opinion, and I don't know that I've any basis for this, but I've a feeling that Grindewald was much more an "old school" World-dominating Wizard Wannabe, that he worked on his own with perhaps a handful of minions, but not playing on people's prejudices and fears the way Voldemort did. Grindewald, I think, just wanted power.
Slowly, however, we're discovering why they were Sorted into Gryffindor. It all starts making sense.
Especially since OP, I personally think the Hat considers it more important where you want to be sorted than where you should be sorted, as it were. It's not so much about where your talents lie, but about what's important to you.
And oh, yes, he seems to have gone over to, well, a semi-dark side, betraying his family in the process (though I'm not quite convinced as I've explained once before, if you remember), which in JKR's world seems to be a Slytherin thing to do.
But. She even has him looking through books about Prefects who want to gain power, for goodness' sake. Can you scream Slytherin even louder? So I'm really waiting for the other shoe to drop. What is it that makes Percy a Gryffindor?
Well, see above, but also, I think going against your family to do what you think is right takes a great deal of courage, and I do think that Percy believes (believed?) that what he is (was) doing is (was) right. Which is why I'm so afraid of Percy. I've always liked him well enough, but I had this undetermined, uneasy feeling about him, and then from about a third through GF, it occured to me that Percy would make the perfect unknwling pawn for Voldemort. "Ich habe es nicht gewust," indeed. (And I'm sure my spelling of that was shite, but there you go.)