I’m sorry in advance if someone already has mentioned these ideas but I’m not sorting through 1000+ comments to find out
Quirrel/Voldemorts ultimate goal with battlemagic is to teach the students of Hogwarts how to be more useful soldiers in an army to be lead by Harry. The purpose of the three armies is obviously a continuation of this plan, with the goal of teaching harry to be a good general, giving Harry a platform to develop a cult of personality around himself (an important thing to have for any aspiring Dark Lord), and finding and developing lieutenants for Harry. However I’m not sure yet as to Voldemort’s plan for the army and Harry as its leader.
Harry could either be magically dominated and used as a figurehead OR Harry could be puppet-mastered into leading the army of his own volition. One likely scenario is to raise the Death Eaters again forcing Harry to raise his army in opposition. Then he has harry publicly defeat voldemort, followed by an immediate introduction of an outside existential threat, probably war with magical Russia or something, I will use Russia as a placeholder for this existential threat. This forces harry to pardon and enlist the death eaters and conquer magical Russia to end the war. During the war with Russia some sort of system of political thought is introduced which requires them to conquer even more countries, like how Communism advocated World Wide Revolution. Perhaps based upon science and rationality governing instead of tradition, with Harry as a de facto benevolent Dictator.
Upon victory against Russia they enlist their fallen foes and with the new Political system as an excuse continue to spark wars to conquest other nations until they rule the magical world and therefore the muggle world as well, after all no one will be able to stop them from imperiusing anyone they damn well want to.
tldr—Step 1 - Turn Hogwarts students into useful soldiers via teaching battle magic, Step 2 - Manipulate Harry into raising an army, Step 3 - Control Harry via magic/manipulation and use the army to conquer the world.
I’m sorry in advance if someone already has mentioned these ideas but I’m not sorting through 1000+ comments to find out
Quirrel/Voldemorts ultimate goal with battlemagic is to teach the students of Hogwarts how to be more useful soldiers in an army to be lead by Harry. The purpose of the three armies is obviously a continuation of this plan, with the goal of teaching harry to be a good general, giving Harry a platform to develop a cult of personality around himself (an important thing to have for any aspiring Dark Lord), and finding and developing lieutenants for Harry. However I’m not sure yet as to Voldemort’s plan for the army and Harry as its leader.
Harry could either be magically dominated and used as a figurehead OR Harry could be puppet-mastered into leading the army of his own volition. One likely scenario is to raise the Death Eaters again forcing Harry to raise his army in opposition. Then he has harry publicly defeat voldemort, followed by an immediate introduction of an outside existential threat, probably war with magical Russia or something, I will use Russia as a placeholder for this existential threat. This forces harry to pardon and enlist the death eaters and conquer magical Russia to end the war. During the war with Russia some sort of system of political thought is introduced which requires them to conquer even more countries, like how Communism advocated World Wide Revolution. Perhaps based upon science and rationality governing instead of tradition, with Harry as a de facto benevolent Dictator.
Upon victory against Russia they enlist their fallen foes and with the new Political system as an excuse continue to spark wars to conquest other nations until they rule the magical world and therefore the muggle world as well, after all no one will be able to stop them from imperiusing anyone they damn well want to.
tldr—Step 1 - Turn Hogwarts students into useful soldiers via teaching battle magic, Step 2 - Manipulate Harry into raising an army, Step 3 - Control Harry via magic/manipulation and use the army to conquer the world.
I dont think the story will be that long, but if you write that as an alternate ending ill read it.
War with Russia? Because that usually turns out well!