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It occurred to me when reading the ministry chapters that almost no one was willing to stand up for what was right... Not Umbridge’s employees, not the secretary who must of witnessed tons of vile hearings, not even the janitor whose wife was under investigation or even those being investigated.

Having been in a cult that suffered a hostile takeover, I can attest that this is quite true to life.

[Accygirl]

Actually, it’s quite true to societies as a whole (See the Milgram experiments and the Stanford Prison Experiments). If the U.S. was taken over by an evil force ala Harry Potter, I don’t think that many people would resist. I think that there would be many secretaries and janitors willing to go along with evil to save their own hides...

However, I do think that by making people aware of this weakness; it will hopefully lead more people to be aware if anything were to happen.