Hey everyone welcome back to another video.
Today I want to take about the First Wizarding War and the weasleys, or more so why they
didn’t participate or have anything to do with the war in general.
I think it’s an area that kinda get’s over looked really.
Where was Arthur Weasley during the war?
Where was Molly?
The husband and wife were heavily involved in the second war and members of the order
of the phoenix.
Arthur was also involved in the late night raids due to his role as head of the Office
for the Detection and Confiscation of Counterfeit Defensive Spells and Protective Objects, a
promotion that was well overdue due to his refusal to tolerate corruption and bribery.
Anyway it’s not really the second war that I want to talk about, it’s the first war,
when voldmeort was really making name for himself, attracting lot of attention and ultimately
gathering a mass amount of followers.
Now for those of you who don’t know, Arthur and Molly both met in Hogwarts, they began
dating in hogwarts, they left hogwarts a couple and married rather quickly.
However during their school days they had heard of voldmeort and there was a lot of
talk about those who planned on joining him when they got outta school.
Molly had 2 brothers Fabian and Gideon who were well established wizards and integral
members of the newly established order of the phoenix under the leadership of albums
dumbledore.
Now I’ve said this in several videos before and I’ll say it again, the order never had
an easy ride in their fight against voldemort, they were almost always on the back foot and
it was more a case of delaying the inevitable while they looked for a way to defeat the
dark lord.
The first war was pretty awful, it wasn’t a good time to be in the magical sector of
Great Britain.
The death eaters and the order were going back and forward, former friends stood opposite
of each other, people were going missing, it just wasn’t good.
Fabian and Gideon, molly’s older brothers, had been in what would appear initially to
be a 2v2 dual with the death eaters that actually resulted in them being lured, ambushed and
ultimately both murdered at the hands of Antonin Dolohov and several other death eaters who
had awaited them.
This was a massive blow to the order but more so to Molly herself, who had just lost 2 of
the closets people to her.
She had also fallen pregnant rather quickly which meant that she needed to be cared for,
protected and hidden from open conflict at all costs.
There was no way Molly would lose her husband so close to losing her brothers so with that,
Arthur refused to join the order or participate in any war.
His new family’s preservation was all that mattered to him.
He used vanishing cabinets quite a lot during the war and bought a large stone pigpen in
the Devon countryside, far away from conflict.
The pigpen was transformed into a home and built upon as the years passed by going by
the name of the burrow, which we’re all familiar with today.
As I said, protecting and building his family was a priority.
Naturally, as a father to a growing family, Arthur would be very busy at the time caring
for his children when home and establishing a career as a wizard fresh out of Hogwarts.
This would mean that Arthur likely had to put in long hours to get noticed and then
come home to a busy household.
The man had no time to join a secret society with the goal to defeat voldemort on top of
that.
Molly also said that he was often called away on weekends during the first war, so on top
of his career and family, he was also on-call a lot.
There is also an implication from Moody/Crouch that Arthur had some sort of negative experience
with the Imperius curse during the first war, so it is possible that Arthur was, at some
point, under the imperius curse as Voldemort and the Death Eaters infiltrated the Ministry.
As I mentioned earlier, Arthur refused to be part of any corruption or do anything shady
for any of his, you could say, darker minded colleagues and this did hamper his means of
any promotion, it would be close to a decade before he got the detection and confiscation
gig, originally working in the misuse of muggle artefacts office, something I cant see being
so enjoyable personally but Arthur genuinely loved it as it did leave him with burning
questions like the famous rubber duck fuction that we so often hear from basically everyone.
Even after the birth of their first child, it was not long before their second and third
and it seemed like the weasleys would never really be hands on with any anti-voldemort
campaigns you could say.
However, when their children did come of age, and probably due to a sense of responsibility
to act from the lack of participation in the previous war, Arthur and Molly were front
and centre when the dark lord returned to power.
They were heavily involved with all order meetings and played a crucial role in the
defence of the school during the battle of hogwarts.
In addition to that, despite losing their son fred, they continued to fight with Molly
even defeating and killing Bellatrix Lestrange, something that caused voldmeort to let out
a loud scream of anger and frustration and receiving some sort of vengeance for her son.
Arthur held his own during the battle but even before that he refused to leave his guard
post at the hall of prophecies and suffered a devastating and basically life threatening
attack by nagini, leaving him with woulds that would not heal.
He still returned to work and even questioned the morality of Albert Runcorn for his information
that led to the discovery of dirk cress well forging his family tree in order to stay clear
of the dark lords ruthless new heritage legislations.
So although Arthur and Molly didnt participate in the first wizard war, for legitimate purposes,
they certainly made for up for it in the second war judging by the numerous examples I’ve
shown today.
It’s also noteworthy to mention that Arthur did in fact return to his old job after the
war ended, maybe he just wanted to focus on figuring out what a rubber duck actually does.
Anyway everyone with that being said, thats my take on why the weasleys refused to help
during the first war, if you wanna add anything down below then please do, its always appreciated.
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