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condwiramurs in deathtocapslock

I Would Sell Out the Nation

Aug 30, 2015 15:22

I promise I'm still chipping away at Indestructible.

But after I responded to mary's comment on my latest essay, discussing Severus' motivation for joining the DEs, I had another small revelation that snapped some massive realizations about the WW and the HP books into focus for me.* Enough strands for another essay series if I try to follow them ( Read more... )

meta, treason, death eaters, statute of secrecy, author: condwiramurs, severus snape

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oryx_leucoryx September 4 2015, 04:02:10 UTC

Trying to rethink my attempts at reconstructing the backstory and events of the first Voldemort war in light of the anti-Secrecy hypothesis.

So when Albus and Tom meet in Albus' office in the late 1950s, was Albus' criticism and expressed disbelief regarding the activities of Tom and the early DEs not about the severity of their assaults but about the risk of attracting Muggle attention?

When the Hogwarts staff, the Weasleys and their friends start fearing Vodemort and start referring to him as YKW, is that not because they feared Tom might attack them but because they feared he would cause the Muggles to attack them?