BOOKS FOR CHILDREN: [Harry Potter Official Club] Re: How Harry Potter Could Take Over the World

Dude..... You have way too much free time.

--- In harrypotterofficialclub@yahoogroups.com, "John Distazo"
<John.Distazo@...> wrote:
>
> As a thought experiment, I thought I would outline how Harry Potter
might
> become the ruler of the world if, for example, he were hit in the
head with
> a rock and lost all sense of morality. Let's assume this takes
place after
> Voldemort dies but before any of the events that led up to the
epilogue, 19
> years later. Taking over the world would pretty much render the
epilogue
> moot.
>
> 1. Harry would keep the Elder Wand and return to the Forbidden
Forest to
> find the Resurrection Stone. These, and his Invisibility Cloak,
will give
> him quite an advantage over any other wizard in the world. I
wouldn't quite
> call him the Master of Death, but it seems like no one wizard ever
possessed
> all three of these magical objects at once after the Peverell
brothers had
> them.
>
> 2. Harry would Imperius Kingsley Shacklebolt, the new Minister of
Magic.
> This would put him in a position to direct policy for the Wizarding
world in
> Britain. Working in the Auror Department would give Harry almost
daily
> access to Shacklebolt, allowing him to keep the Imperius Curse
strong.
>
> 3. The Ministry would begin a series of programs outwardly designed
to be
> friendly and protective of Muggles in Britain, and the Ministry
would
> maintain cordial relations with the rest of the Wizarding world
around
> the globe, as much as possible, to gauge the temperament of those
> governments for the Muggles in their areas.
>
> 4. In parallel with this, Harry would arrange for a subversive
organization
> to be set up to work AGAINST the Ministry in order to keep it from
helping
> the Muggles, and for the organization to control Muggles as much as
> possible. The top level of this organization would actually be in
cahoots
> with Harry (probably Imperiused by him as well), with the goal of
> controlling Muggle government figures in order to pass legislation
to slowly
> erode the freedoms of its Muggle constituency, and to incidentally
make it
> more difficult for Wizarding folk to coexist peacefully and
unnoticed among
> them. As time went on, Harry would expand this subversive
organization to
> other nations where Wizarding governments existed as well,
attempting to
> subvert those Wizarding governments as well.
>
> 5. Which this two-pronged attack, Harry's Ministry and the
subversive
> organization would work, the Ministry trying to "protect" Muggles
and the
> subversives trying to "subjugate" them, to make Wizarding sentiment
go
> against Muggles, to the point where the Wizarding world would feel
something
> drastic was called for, such as taking over the Muggle government
to help
> both wizards and Muggles. Once the wizarding community called for
the
> takeover of the Muggle government, the Ministry (controlled by
Harry's
> Imperiused puppets there) would reluctantly accede to their demands
and
> would stage a shadow coup d'etat of first, the British government,
then, as
> the power base expands to include more wizards sympathetic to a
wizarding
> takeover of Muggle governments, exapand the takeovers to other
governments
> in order to fight the subversive organizations abroad.
>
> 6. As this all happens, Muggle governments, now under Wizarding
control,
> will begin treating their people "better" than before; their
freedoms, while
> still curtailed, would now be "protected" by the shadow Wizarding
government
> controlling the puppet Muggle government. These governments would
slowly
> expand the level of services and uttilities they provide for
people, keeping
> costs as low as possible (through the use of magic) to make and
keep them
> popular. There would be some positive side effects: wars would
begin to
> diminish in number as once-rival governments become "friends" once
the
> shadow Wizarding government controls them both.
>
> 7. Eventually, once the major populations of the world are
controlled by
> puppet Muggle governments controlled by wizarding folk, Imperiused
to obey
> Harry, the need for the subversive organizations goes away, since
the
> Wizarding world now de facto controls most of the Muggle
governments. It
> would probably take from 19 to 20 years to get to this point, so we
would
> now be at the same time as in the Epilogue, roughly 2018 or 2019.
From this
> point on, either the Wizarding governments continue to be
benevolent shadow
> dictators or everything goes Dark and scary.
>
>
>
> John
>