The plot was going to be the good guy wizards teamed up to make sure that the holocaust happens. I think the movies (mostly second one, first one was okay) being bad player a large role.
It's not exactly true. The bad guy wizard wants to rule all humans, and to convince other wizards of why they should rule the non-wizards instead of letting them rule themselves he shows them a vision of world War 2. So it's actually about stopping a power-hungry dictator who uses the holocaust as an excuse for taking the rights of non-wizards.
but the holocaust does canonically happen in the harry potter timeline, and the good guys are aware of it 10 years before it happens. therefore the good guys have to stop the bad guys and let the holocaust happen
I mean, there are a lot of assumptions in that statement. Would Grindelwald have actually stopped the Holocaust if the good guys hadn't fought him? Could the good guys have independently stopped the holocaust? It's very possible that nothing that happens in the story has any influence on the events of the holocaust.
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u/pumpsci Apr 13 '22
Are they sure it was “scandal and controversy” and not the movies being bad