The REAL Reason NO OTHER Countries Helped Fight Against Voldemort - Harry Potter Theory

Notice how in every year at hogwarts somebody tells harry, this is the safest place in the world, yet ib every year he almost dies while attending hogwarts

Wizarding Britten is in many ways the Wizarding world's version of Germany. Other countries would take one look and say not my problem right up until it is their problem.

I also heard of a theory about this that Hogwarts has always had at least one death and countless serious injuries each year, in it's student body, since it's founding. Far far far higher than any of the other countries Wizarding schools. So other countries looked down on how The British Isles' wizarding community trained their witches and wizards.

There was a reason why Voldemort used Pius Thickness as MINISTER OF MAGIC. According to the official record, Rufus Scrimgeour was not murdered and the Ministry wasn't taken over by a terrorist. Pius Thickness was "legally" the next Minister after Scrimgeour's accidental death. The ICW either didn't know Voldemort had taken over or at least had plausible deniability. Britain was officially acting as though nothing wrong was going on. Some of the new policies may have raised ICW eyebrows, but not enough to send in troops.

I think it might have been a mix of all of the theories. Another one might be: There was no precedents on which to act. Meaning that it never happened that wizards and witches from another magical country sent troops to another country to bring back order to said country. It is also probably why there was never an international wizards war because secrety is the priority and an open conflict would have brought too much attention on them.

Technically, just because it wasn't brought up in the books, it doesn't mean the other wizarding governments weren't preparing just in case V ended up ruling in the UK. They could very well have had something in the works from the last time V was around.

Nothing in the books says that the first wizarding war only took place in UK. What the books do however says is that people worldwide did not dared to speak Voldemort's name. Voldemort have done something in the first wizarding war that shocked the whole world...

One more possibility. They did help but under the radar. As in real life countries share intelligence etc without letting others know.

My guess would be that many of the magical persons were very afraid of Voldemort. Others might not have cared or might even have agreed with The Dark Lord and his followers. The people fighting him in Britain didn't have much of a choice in the matter. They were marked for death, so they had to fight. Since Voldemort's attention was focused primarily on Britain, magical persons in other places had other options rather than to fight one way or the other. They could also just hide, wait for the danger to pass, and try to get back to business as usual when the fighting was over, regardless of who won. Also, it could be that some passive assistance actually was given to "The Good Guys" from other areas in the world, only it had to be done in secrecy, because it wasn't a certainty on who would win.

internal affair..............real world most civil wars are considered internal issues and rarely the UN gets involved except for humanitarian aid

It's also worth noting that when the trio are breaking into Gringotts, Ron's cover was as a foreign wizard who wished to support the deatheaters' cause in his own country.

It's not my fight until the problem crosses a line, entering my territory, then it's gloves off. Voldemort was a big threat but was curiously stuck across the pond. He probably wouldn't have even stepped foot far north in fear of getting stabbed by a drunken Scot's beer bottle.

Other countries usually take quite a while to intervene in a country’s civil war without huge incentive, why soul the Wizarding world be different?

I think that any action taken by the international wizarding community had to be covert operations, not to blow the secrecy agreements and such operations would take time to set up. Now, in the first Wizarding War, this likely happened. Covert agents of other nations, tracking down and killing Death Eaters, while also keeping their own nations under control. The likes of Karkaroff proved that there are foreign wizards with a keen interest in Voldemort's agenda, so that would definitely be the first focus of each country. Ending those threats before they could become a problem. And this was all not so hard, because the Ministry of Magic in Great-Brittain held strong during the First Wizarding War, it was keeping strong. In the second Wizarding War, it was completely different story and the keyword in this story is without a doubt: politics. Any action that the international community would have taken against Voldemort would have been considered an act of war and would have drawn them into a conflict they had no stakes in. When Harry announced the return of Voldemort, Fudge denounced it as hysteria and probably this was a year where the international wizarding community couldn't do all that much. It wouldn't have been appreciated by the Ministry if for example the Americans or the French sent their agents to deal with the issue, as there was officially no issue. It would have been considered a breach of Magical Brittain's soevernity if one country sent their agents to the British Isles. It was politically an unwise move to do something. Even preparing to send troops might have been taken the wrong way by the ministry, so to appease the government, if foreign ministries did anything, it was domestic protection. Then, Voldemort's return was announced and Fudge was out, the international community wasn't only not prepared to send help, it isn't even sure if they were all that happy to help the Ministry clean up the mess they allowed to fester for a year. Politically speaking, it wouldn't be a popular measure for any government to take, to risk their citizens by sending them to Brittain as magical aid. But they were likely preparing to have some help ready as Voldemort was known to be too big of a threat to be left alone at this point. And than the unimaginable happened, a year after his return was officially recognized and the magical communities could finally, openly starting to thinking about a response, Dumbledore (the man who defeated the last large international threat) and the Ministry fell with Voldemort taking over. Fighting Voldemort was no longer an ethical question but a suddenly an open political question. Going against Voldemort for the policies he enact in Brittain, would go against the countries' soevernity now, violate potential peace treaties and could even be considered a clear declaration of war. Economic sanctions and trade embargos might have been levied against his regime but not much more than that. This is likely the reason why the Death Eaters moved so quickly this time. They took over the Ministry in just over two years while the last time they didn't get this far, despite being active for far longer. They likely made the mistake last time to allow the international community to rally against them and bolster the Ministry, keeping them up, so this time, they focussed on the take over first (working from the shadows for a year, really must have helped them a lot) as well as the assassination of Dumbledore, before making other big moves. They were exposed prematurely off course, putting a slight damper on the original plan (for the second time, the first time was with Harry escaping death) but with the right focus this time, they managed to almost pull it off successfully.

I'm kinda confused as to why the first theory is cultural intolerance. I mean just for an immediate example: Japan has been known to look down upon other peoples, be it foreigner or not. The discrimination against the Ainu can be brought up. While we don't know exactly everything going on in each wizarding school, I'm much more willing to chalk it up to Rowling's not really knowing too much about other cultures and their own tumultuous histories.

I don't think Voldy would be able to conquer the world even if he killed harry....anybody else?

I'm sure that others have noticed the parallels between Voldemort and Hitler and the events leading up to and during WWII. I don't know if JKR did it on purpose or it happened simply because the aftermath of WWII is still being felt.

I think the severity of the war was suppressed by the Ministry and other magical governments. Foreign governments wouldn’t want to add fuel to the fire of any of their own supremest factions. The ministry would in addition want to suppress their own incompetence.

You missed a theory that i think is more of a possibility and far better explanation that since the story takes place in England would explain why we don't hear about other countries and would also explain why krum wasn't at the battle of hogwarts. The theory is that voldy had death eaters world wide and was already attacking them in the other countries. Other countries couldn't help because they were already fighting his forces

The The second rise of Voldemort all happened in a year ( school year) where half of it the Ministry was in complete denial - if we look at Hitlers rise to power it was a good few years until he was noticed internationally as anything suspect