Children of the Seventies: Choosing an Allegiance

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Severus Snape, Lucius Malfoy, Remus Lupin, James Potter, Lily Evans; Sirius, Regulus, Bella and Narcissa Black. Some of most interesting adult characters of HP verse were the product of a decade marked by the first rise of Voldemort, and all of them made a choice in the war which shaped and defined them thereafter. Approximately at an age when most of us in RL were concerned with no more than beginning university, they were pressed to make a choice that would forever lock their fate.

In this essay, I look at what the choices looked like to them, and what their choices revealed of their characters and psychological bumps.

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