Why Did Parents Still Send Their Kids to Hogwarts in Deathly Hallows? - Harry Potter Explained
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Why Did Parents Still Send Their Kids to Hogwarts in Deathly Hallows? - Harry Potter Explained

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 1, 202618 min
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The most evil and powerful dark wizard of all time takes over your child's school. Are you sending them or not? That's probably the question many parents of Hogwarts students had to ask themselves in the beginning of Deathly Hallows. Pull your child out of their routine and deprive them of a chance at magical education..Or…Send them to a school that’s been taken over by a tyrannical dark wizard. Excellent options. Topics Covered: Why students still went to Hogwarts in the Deathly Hallows Hogwarts under Vold...

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Now, I know what a lot of you are going to say. Wasn't this already answered in the books?

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mean every parent simply accepted it. I guess the real question is, if your child was in this

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The most evil and powerful dark wizard of all time takes over your child's school. Are you sending them or not? That's probably the question many parents of Hogwarts students had to ask themselves in the beginning of Deathly Hallows. Pull your child out of their routine and deprive them of a chance at magical education, or send them to a school that's been taken over by

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a tyrannical dark wizard. But I guess the larger problem is, did they really have a choice? Now, I know what a lot of you are going to say. Wasn't this already answered in the books? Didn't Voldemort make attendance mandatory? And technically, yes. But that doesn't necessarily mean every parent simply accepted it. I guess the real question is, if your child was in this

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situation, would you still send them? I don't have kids, but I'm not sure I'd ever put them in that kind of danger. And for the kids that did go to Hogwarts that year, how did they get there once, Diagon Alley was torn to pieces. Today we'll be diving into all of that and more, as we discuss life as a first year in 1997. Hey everyone, welcome to another instalment

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