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To: alt.fan.harry-potter From: "JB"Subject: Re: Wizards and WWII Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 13:18:17 +0100 "Stephen Thomas" wrote in message news:pan.2003.05.13.10.08.50.579312@stephenthomas.uklinux.net... > Reading CoS recently (I've been mentally limbering up for OotP), > I reasoned Moaning Myrtle must have been killed in either 1942 or > '43, based on what we know of the HP timeline. > > Now, those were the deepest, darkest years of WWII for Britain > (and many other places), and this got me wondering how the war > would have affected the wizarding community, and what they would > have done during the war. > > Would the wizards have kept their heads down, considering the > war to be a muggle-only problem, or would they have tried to > assist the war effort, in whatever way they could? I'm inclined > to think that many would have tried to do the former (I say tried > because WWII's effect on Britain and the rest of Europe would be > rather hard to ignore), but that some people (like Dumbledore) > would be pitching in somehow. I also wonder to what extent the > non-muggles would have been subject to the privations the rest > of the country had to endure in the war years (and afterwards). > > I do not recall any mention of WWII in any of the books, but > I've not read too many JKR interview transcripts, either. I > don't recall seeing this issue discussed here (but then I haven't > been subscribed here for long). I'd be interested in opinions. > > Stephen > I always figured the remark in PS was something to do with WWII: "Considered by many the greatest wizard of modern times, Dumbledore is particularly famous for his defeat of the dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945..."
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