The Only One He Ever Feared: The Nature of War

Abstract

From the beginning of Harry’s journey, we have indications that the tension between good and evil must end in war. So, too, it has been with many conflicts in the Muggle world. War is the longest- and most-studied subject in politics, dating straight back to Thucydides’s History of the Pelopponesian War. Such attention is natural, since war is the single most costly action a state can undertake, often gambling its very survival.