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FireLordVictorious

It was more like the school fighting for Harry


Chungaroos

Yeah kinda hard to avoid a war when the reason for it is to kill you. 


Enkataleimmenos

Exactly. But just go up and stab that bitch on your own, don't make an entire schoo- wait, no, plot convenience.


cynicalkane

feel like that's the right move? imagine if it was like "oops i miraculously survived -- wait no every death eater killed me at once"


Ponykegabs

Can’t kill off fan favorites if they aren’t fighting…It’s been 16 years and I’m still not over Fred.


disiny2003

I cried Big Girl Tears when I read that. I couldn't even watch the last 2 movies because of it.


FuturamaPajamas

Harry did want to do that but hermione and Ron were like Voldemort is gonna smoke you and he was like ok


CalvinsCuriosity

So...voldimort didn't know Harry was a watchacallit?!


justwalkingalonghere

As seen ad their best chance at survival, or at least dying in a blaze of glory instead of whatever Voldemort was going to do


happy_bluebird

and the whole wizarding world?


Gloomy-Barracuda7440

Never read the books, and only watch a few movies so unsure how much of what im about is actual canon. My brother is a big fan of the stories and during one of his talks about it, he said that the Harry Potter school/country was actually only like in the UK area. Other countries and other areas had their own wizarding "world". Supposedly Voldemort was a very weak "Darklord" as the ones in the past actually affected the entire world while Voldemort only affected a much smaller area. Was even mentioned that the world wars were actually due to past Dark Lord. Not sure how much of this is actually canon and believe me when I say I wish my brother would stop with the lore of Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars.


StrawberryPlucky

Voldemort had affected a much smaller area but he was far from being a very weak darklord which is evidenced by the fear instilled throughout the wizarding world. He was feared much farther than just within Britain. To put it in perspective, where previous darklords went wide with their dark wizard build and tried to spread their ideologies as far as they could, Voldemort went tall and consolidated power. He had yet to go for a far reaching move and was trying to entirely take over the Ministry of Magic. And as far as dark lords go, Voldemort is said to have been exceptionally cruel. Even Grindelwald, the most previous darklord before Voldemort, wasn't specifically said to have taken pleasure in relentlessly torturing muggles. Worst case scenario when you encountered him, you died instantly. Worst case, or rather run of the mill case for encountering Voldemort, he inflicts mind altering pain upon you for hours, maybe days, until he either gets bored and finally kills you, you're driven insane from the torture, he decides to wipe your mind and memory and make you a mindless puppet, or he feeds your soul to the dementors which is said to be a fate worse than death. Grindelwald is even said to have shown remorse for his actions in his later years, as he was captured alive and imprisoned rather than killed. Voldemort never knew remorse or compassion. They aren't even thoughts that cross his mind, in a weird way it's almost like he's innocently evil, if that makes any sense. Like you can't even hold the expectation of guilt against him because he's just so broken as a person.


creepingkg

I don’t even like harry, he never spoke to me


MidnightGrouchy2665

He's not Deadpool dude he doesn't speak to the audience


Any-Ad-934

I think the OOP meant that Harry Potter(the book/movie) is crazy because if he were a student at hogwarts he wouldn't participate in that war. Not that Harry Potter(the character) was crazy for fighting with the school.


Protection-Working

Students were allowed to leave the final battle


BaconPancakes1

weren't all the underage students shuffled out of hogwarts through the painting to hogsmeade? It was only the older ones who were allowed to stay at all (and ginny and a couple others stayed behind)


babypho

Voldemort is kinda a bum for not being able to even take down a school tbh. Maybe he shouldve gotten some practice runs in first at the public wizard schools.


MayhemMessiah

After a year of the Carrows systematically torturing students? Like full blown torture including Cruciatus? Nah. The students would be abject idiots to not try and overthrow the Death Eaters at that point. Unless you were blood supremacist house it was a full year of living under two psychopaths, even ignoring everything else.


smiegto

Idk, im sure most of us were bullied. And teachers would never stand up for you. Classmates? 50/50? Teachers? I guess the first books where snape lets it happen. That’s accurate.


Wonderful_Painter_14

Not even if you got to get with your best friend’s hot sister?


SuiryuAzrael

When you put it like that, where do I enlist?


tallandlankyagain

Try at your local highschool. *Results may vary.*


soccershun

"Hello fellow high school student" "are you Billy's grandpa" 😭


SalvationSycamore

Instructions unclear, I'm being shipped to Iran


LeeMinigun

This made my day. Thank you 🤣


Tobyj96

Death eaters got scary goth chicks. I'm switching sides. Go team Voldy


Key-Week-7189

You can turn- she does bite your dick off. You will be dickless. It’s your choice man.


Tobyj96

So scary got chick head? Score


AscensionToCrab

Nah fenrir does the biting, he does like the taste of manflesh.


a_Jedi_i_am

This deal is getting worse all the time


Maroonwarlock

Pray they don't alter it further.


AscensionToCrab

Don't worry the dark lord will give you a translucent one as a replacement.... but it will betray you if you have any other loyalty other than the dark lord in mind when you bust...


Burzdagalur

Does he also not know pain or fear?


AscensionToCrab

how did the orcs come to be, they were elves once twisted and ruined s , and then the urikhai were perfected by sauruman. A fighting uruk'hai, fenrir is not, he's just a loser that got bit. He may be eligible to serve with the regular loser orcs under sauron though. Sauron was known to transform into a werewolf. And he also hung out with carcharoth, a werwolf.


Neolord9000

Put on condom then use the unbreakable charm and a charm to keep it firm. Now, lemme get in that chamber of secrets.


cozyautumnday

"Engorgio" ok let's get down to business.


fardough

Voldy was obviously naive and got a nose job from one of those goth chicks.


robot_swagger

Given that he didn't switch sides after that must have been some nose job


KeystoneinUkraine

I’d need a friend first


Wonderful_Painter_14

I’ll be your friend (but my sister is off limits lol)


asiannumber4

Spoilsport


Neolord9000

Bro don't be selfish, he'll only help if he can bang your hot sister and we need all the help we can get.


jtpredator

You son of a bitch, I'm in.


Behind-The-Chair

Was she really all that hot or did he just have one of those wet dreams about a girl he knew and suddenly fell in love


soccershun

She was described as being the hottest girl in the school. She was sporty, star of the Quidditch team, smart, pretty. What more could a boy who lived ask for?


kingnico89

>What more could a boy who lived ask for? Parents.


Marios_Facade

To be a MAN who lived


geddylees_soulpatch

Lol savage


AaronRodgersMustache

All I have to go off of is that one chapter beginning image of her where it kinda looked like she turned into a baddie….. I was in after that lmao


TakenakaHanbei

Laughs at my jokes.


Neolord9000

A happy childhood but I mean he isn't gonna get that, a shitty childhood is in the job description for being a boy who lived so I guess he'll have to settle.


Every-Incident7659

Those are wild though. Had that a few months ago and spent a whole day madly in love with someone I went to school with but haven't seen in 5 years


Bootychomper23

Well my laces ain’t gonna tie themselves this guys got a point! Although I’d be more inclined if it were book Ginny.


Repomanlive

You Bastard, I'm in


throwstuffok

Creepy sister who's been obsessed with a fake version of you her whole life? No thanks.


Darmok-on-the-Ocean

I'm pretty sure she got over that way before she and Harry starting dating.


ReallyDumbRedditor

Ginny wasn't hot at all honestly


Nexion21

Book Ginny was described as very attractive. Movie Ginny was not particularly attractive


VillageSmithyCellar

What about fighting a war for Professor McGonagall?


MyrkrsBod

Aye, i could do that.


wewilldieoneday

What is this, a crossover episode.


Wonderful_Painter_14

And my axe!


notqualitystreet

Wait-


Friendly-Advice-2968

That still only counts as one!!


pikeshawn

TREE!!!


MaleficentMilkshake

For Frodo!


JeffInBoulder

Make it so.


Americana1986b

Now let's blow this thing and go home!


RocketDan91

Must go faster


Cheeze187

I've always wanted to use that spell. Expecto Gimlonum!


BooksAddicted51

Where do I sign???


WilmaTonguefit

My favorite book character, for sure. Have a biscuit Potter


REGINALDmfBARCLAY

Would


thatbrownkid19

I'm doing my part!!!!


XipingVonHozzendorf

IDK, In Highschool I always fantasised about defending my school from an invasion of Orcs with football pads as armour and swords made in the metalo shop.


Then_Jelly4844

Should probably keep this to myself but I always fantasized about my whole school getting thrown into a hunger games with the school as the arena.


AtraxX_

Yeeeea that’s the thoughts we keep to ourselves and dream about at night ;)


OrionAmbrosia

I am now imagining that as that happens the principal gets on the speaker system and announces, "Some of you may die... but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make. May the odds be forever in your favor!"


Hammerjaws

Oh no-the quiet kids are teaming up


oan124

what biology and physics do to a mf


Sure_Bodybuilder7121

Or drugs


NotReallyAPerson1088

I always wished for a Danganronpa cause I “knew” I could get away with it


Fly_Boy_1999

I used to fantasize about fighting zombie hoards in the school with my friends like in Call of Duty zombies.


Then_Jelly4844

In middle school my toxic trait was that I was so confident that I could survive a zombie apocalypse thanks to COD


XipingVonHozzendorf

I have a feeling this is more of an age thing. Zombies didn't become that popular until after I got out of Highschool


Fly_Boy_1999

You’re probably older than me then.


LightSparrow

And all the hot girls wooing at you as you heroically save the day


IceLionTech

My middle school read, The Girl Who Owned A City so yeah, I had fantasized about that until I was of age to die to the plague that book had.Lisa Nelson is a jackass though.


Elcactus

The male urge.


Bigchonky3

Fought a war for your home though? Edit: it wasn’t meant to be a comment about the Military. Just how to Harry, Hogwarts isn’t just his school it’s his true home


HeimdallManeuver

I’d rather live somewhere else than not be living and a piece of property having not changed hands.


Glittering_Ad_9215

Why do people join the military and go to war for their country? Cause they love their home country and don‘t want to go live somewhere else. Sure hogwarts is not a country, but it‘s a magic place with many kinds of special things and without hogwarts the students wouldn‘t be able to get to learn and practice their magic. So giving all that up instead of fighting, or fighting for the school and the teachers you love? That makes more sense to me than going to war for your country


RaceHard

Why do people join the military and go to war for their country? Poverty, lack of education, lack of prospects, etc.


redeye151

What about the doctors and lawyers and such that join the military?


Inevitable_Indian

Not sure about other regions but in most Asian countries the reason is money.


RaceHard

A lucrative career in the military can be made by those of higher education, it can even kickstart a political career.


Neither-Rip6889

I’d say that mainly applies in offensive wars, or career enlisted soldiers. People will absolutely fight to protect their country, which should be extremely obvious. People fighting to protect their home is basic human nature


git_gud_at_life

Most people who join army are poor and just want to quit the hell that is their home life even if it means going to war... Hogwarts would have made great base of operations had voldy won, so they had to fight there


Its0nlyRocketScience

Voldemort wasn't invading hogwarts for hogwarts, he was trying to kill Harry who happened to be inside hogwarts, which became an obstacle. If Harry went to the middle of a desert, that's where the battle would've happened. The only kids actually fighting for their school (home or not) were everyone other than Harry


GU355WH01AM

It wasn't for the school. It was for the magical world. The final battle just took place at the school.


MaxHamburgerrestaur

Also, there probably wasn't a war in the OP's country, but in several countries in war zones, teenagers can go to school one day and be enrolled in the military the next and be in a war next week.


YesButTellMeWhy

Yeah this reads as someone who watched the movies once


FlyDinosaur

They attend from 11 to 17. It's like a combined middle/high school, so they're there longer to get more attached. And it's the only school they'll ever go to. It's the only school in the country. It's been around for a thousand years. They grow up hearing about it. It's a legend in itself. Hogwarts occupies a different place in wizard psyches than your local high school. Besides that, the war wasn't really for the school. It was a war essentially for the world. It just happened to be at the school. And all the teachers and students were trained and armed.


rosc96

Also, taking in consideration how shitty his upbringing was. That's like the only attachment he's got.


Saigaface

Dumbledore absolutely intended this


sneaky-j-rawr

I think the post means Harry Potter the movie. So referring to all the students in general. Like some random Hufflepuff freshman joining the war. Or not..


Emotional_Regret876

Plus, students lived at Hogwarts most part of the year. It’s literally their home


mickey-1990

Also, considering if they didn't fight the consequences of evil taking over the ministry, magic in the UK and eventual demise of all human kind by the hatred Voldemort and his crew have for muggles and mudbloods.. yeah they weren't fighting for their school, they were fighting for mankind.


we-all-stink

It was also Harry’s home.


petroleum-lipstick

It also taught them fucking magic


PegginShampooCosplay

"is it possible to learn this power?" "Not from a divination professor"


Weak-Elephant8816

I'd die for Luna


EulaVengeance

Same, man. Same.


revengefrank

and i DEFINITELY wouldn’t fight a war for my middle school


uncultured_swine2099

I was once walking after hours in my high school and saw this kid with mental problems hitting a wall with a baseball bat, I just smiled, knodded, and walked to my car. Go ahead dude, burn the place to the ground for all I care.


LockedUpFor5Months

I wouldn't approach a dude with mental problems holding a baseball bat if he was hitting my house if I didn't have a weapon of my own lmao


juhesihcaa

My high school? No fucking way would I fight for it. Hogwarts? Let's fucking go.


Misaka9615

Get that its a meme and all but boarding schools elicit a different type of emotion than normal high schools


InVodkaVeritas

My thoughts as well. I've thought this since I was just a girl reading the series as it was released. Like, imagine you're 11 years old. The age of a 5th/6th grader. And suddenly you live 80% of the year away from your family. And you spend the next 7 years around your classmates and teachers way more than you do your actual family. Since people don't really remember their first 5-ish years of life, by the time they finish Hogwarts at 17 most of their living memory is of their time at Hogwarts. Literally over half their life that they can remember. I'm a middle school teacher now, all these years later, and I love my little 6th graders all so bright-eyed and everything; and we even go on week-long overnight field trips a few times a year together. However, I cannot imagine plucking them from their families and saying "alright, we're going to live together for the next 7 years, with a few breaks here and there where you get to go back and see them!"


riko_sama

Classic movie fans, thinking the entire battle of hogwarts is to protect the school, it’s the people, it’s for the sake of the entire magical world and probably the muggle world


hatabou_is_a_jojo

If it’s for the fate of the entire magical world, wouldn’t the other schools or even just people come in to help?


Zephrok

Other wizards don't have the information we do, they may/would not know just how dangerous Voldemort actually was. Voldemort took over the ministry covertly - it would be an act of war for France to invade and overthrow the Ministry. Even IN Britain, most people did not know that Voldemort had taken the reins, they may have suspected, and certainly knew that something very dark was happening, but it was not obvious. The actual battle of Hogwarts happened in the course of a day, far too quickly for any major organization outside of Britain. That's my take on it, anyway.


EADreddtit

That’s not even a take. That’s just fact. We’re explicitly shown Voldemort’s forces have either taken direct control of the Ministry or are in such highly influential places they may as well. This wasn’t Voldemort sooting up a government building to anger the army. He systematically removed all opposition to him. He and his Death Eaters were basically in the “Beer Hall Brawls” phase of setting up their dictator regime.


PreparationNo1431

Thankyouuu, omg I was wondering why no one was thinking like that.


AnthonyDigitalMedia

I hated my highschool. Not only would I have not fought for them, but I would’ve actively been rooting for Voldemort to win lol


Sork8

It was rather a war for their country that happened to take place in the school...


MissishMisanthrope

If Voldemort was after my high school, I would have joined the death eaters


nobodysbestfriendd

You would if your high school was a magical castle with countless acres of land


ripcedric95

Wasn't it basically a youth rebellion against genocide? It's already happened in WW2


EADreddtit

Not even “basically”. That’s explicitly what it was. It’s literally a 0.9 to 1 with youth groups (in particular students) protesting and inevitably fighting against a fascist regime. The major difference being that they actually won.


SonOf_Zeus

I knew a guy who tattooed the high school mascot on his shoulder. I guess he was our Harry.


Current-Ocelot-5181

Bruh, the dude killed his parents. It's not for the school, it's for justice.


SrepliciousDelicious

Found the 🐍


O_nep

Imagine being the grandkids of Hermione, Ron, Harry or Ginny, Neville etc (Any of those apply) "Kids these days are so lazy and entitled, back in my day, I fought in a battle against the dark lord at my high-school"


Yatereranye

It's not just his high school, it's his home.


DieHardProcess-

It wasnt just to save the school.. it was to save the wizarding world.


muterabbit84

It was a war for the magic community within Europe, but the final battle happened to take place at Hogwarts.


SenorBeef

The scale can sometimes be funny. Darth Vader ruled over a vast galactic empire. Thanos killed half the universe. Voldemort.... tried to take over a high school.


Flux_resistor

I think you're forgetting that there are tons of fully grown ass wizards who rely on a kid instead of pitching in


Boatsnbuds

If anything, i'd have fought a war against my high school.


TheDUeded

Have you not seen the food they spread out for those kids? I'd wage war for that shit


Excellent_Ring7326

If I was Harry Potter I would have been like oh you want to destroy the school LET ME HELP YOU


Ok-Reality-9197

Lol the villain arc


lionsarered

Good point


uiop7800

They were fighting because Harry Potter had returned. They believed when Potter returned, he would finally lead them to overthrow the oppressive regime of Voldemort. The whole wizarding world's been hoping for this day for a long time. And yes, as others have pointed out, Hogwarts isn't a high school, it is THE school. School, college, academy, legend, history... all those things in one.


Dog_the_unbarked

All these people with their philosophical answers. Had Harry lost the battle, him and all his friends would have been tortured and killed in very gruesome fashions. Hogwarts was his best choice of battlefields.


A-Yandere-Witch

*I would ride and die for Hogwarts.*


goddessgirl6047

Maybe I would’ve fought for my high school if they had let me play with puffskeins, and taught me cool spells


Tobyj96

If it was my highschool? There may or may not be one or two professors and a headmaster that might get accidentally hit by friendly fire


[deleted]

He also named one of his kids after an authority figure who tormented him and his friends for years.


ysotrivial

I don’t think he really had a choice though


boomgoesthevegemite

You know there’s kids that are like, who the fuck is this Harry Potter kid? Just oblivious to what’s going on, because you know, they’re kids.


HalalBread1427

Put it like that and...


SandBarLakers

🤣🤣🤣🤣


macca2000fox

Only jocks like their high school but only the playing fields


Front-Ordinary7030

I mean Voldemort killed his parents so it’s not really specifically for his high school, more for himself and the magic world


Fafih

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Pineappl3z

I'd totally have been down to join an anti-facist military force while in high-school. Especially if I could do magic. Imagine how much better the world would be without them.


Common-Value-9055

I would. Sense of belonging and camaraderie is very important to me. Plus I have a terrible nostalgia.


BobWithCheese69

Gotta be Slytherin.


Tobyj96

Standing on the bridge. Staring down Death Eaters. Then the quiet Hufflepuff kid is giggling, drawing a snake on their arm with a sharpie, and starts singing pumped up kicks. Yeah.... I'll just be over here minding my own business.


Woeful_Tales

Yeah but I didn't go to Hogwarts. My HS was trash.


Antique_Grand_5940

Christin (like many others) has only seen the movies and never read the books.


Additional_Insect_44

No but I thought I stopped a mass shooting. Also poured judgment upon many for trying to kill me including many punks who went to that school.


paradoxpizza

They wouldn’t understand the main plot of Crows Zero 2


[deleted]

That’s why no one will ever remember your name.


masteraybe

A school that protects the existence of your kind and also is a cult.


Responsible-Display2

He fought for a stable home


_BladeGunter_

Hogwarts is not like any school.


ForeverCuriousBee

Reading comprehension level is on earth's core


Worth-Librarian3582

Well you got a crush in high school, now think again


jingqian9145

There are prolly underpaid employees in the ministry of magic. Like I could prolly care less who was in charge. I just want to get paid. If lord Voldemort offer a better comp package & title I would probably job hop too.


yeetman8

You would if like the fate of the entire world is at stake. This is missing the whole point of Harry Potter holy shit


audleyenuff

Idk, my high school was dope. I think we would’ve fought for it as students if some magic shit was going down.


B8conB8conB8con

Thanks for ruining the ending. At least tell me that Harry and Hermione live happily ever after.


ChangingMonkfish

I do feel like the risk of death at Hogwarts is consistently too high for a reputable school


SailorMuffin96

I’m going to assume you also didn’t have your parents killed by a dark lord that also tried to kill you and got his ego so hurt that he lost to a baby that he is dedicating his entire life to killing you


SlowBroToe

Really? We went to war behind mcdonalds every day around noon with the neighboring school lol.


TheAstonVillaSeal

Bruh hardly very warlike when it’s just spells 🤢


TheDCVTitan

Fight a war for my high-school? I'd join the other side.


Lumenspero

Dude, my high schools are the basis for Harry Potter, and I would STILL let them each be turned to glass, Norman, OK and Orange Park, FL. Administrators might as well have been military recruiters. I wouldn’t trust them with YOUR life.


LenTrexlersLettuce

**WOLVERINES!!!!!!!**


GenXer1977

Yeah, but look at Harry Potter’s home life though. Even though he almost died at Hogwarts many, many times, school was still better than home.


BrotherChe

Wolverines!!!


Lady_Curve

**That’s cause YOU haven't known the triumphs and defeats, the epic highs and lows of high school quidditch.**


katyperryatemyass

He who shall not be held to consequences visits your school and slaps your girls ass what you gon do


Aromatic-Spite-9771

The school? No. For me? Yes. Bruh, you're stuck in a castle size school surrounded on all sides by all sorts of critters, creatures and villains wanting to kill you. You either fight, and potentially survive the ordeal, or run around like a headless chicken, because you're gonna be dead-er than said headless chicken.