Although the International Statute of Secrecy separated the worlds of wizards and Muggles, the Wizarding World was likewise shaken whenever great upheavals occurred.
For instance, the Duke de Teyffre-Pike, who was sent to the guillotine during the Reign of Terror, cast a Disillusionment Charm on his own neck to fake his death.
He had actually been very fortunate. It was said that after chopping off someone's head, the executioner would seize it by the hair and hold it up for the onlookers to see.
Later came examples of "killing one to warn a hundred." In Lyon, large numbers of prisoners were executed together by cannon fire; in Vendée, people were driven into rivers and drowned in batches. Only then did the "audience" realize that they, too, might become "actors."
Factions also emerged within the Jacobins. Danton grew increasingly dissatisfied with Robespierre's policy of terror and began deliberately keeping his distance from the Sans-culottes. Robespierre, meanwhile, believed that in a tyrant's hands, terror became a weapon for oppressing the people, but once terror joined with virtue, it became the savior of the poor.
Six thousand residents of Lyon had once been deemed forever incapable of becoming Patriots, and their descendants were supposed to be relocated elsewhere in France.
Terror was a lever that drove people into action, but that did not mean people would act as the makers of terror wished. When Voldemort spread terror through the Wizarding World, there were still wizards who persisted in resisting. The purpose of terror was obedience, much like a teacher in the classroom at "Monsieur University" establishing authority and telling students what was right, expecting them to do exactly as he said.
Albus had shown himself rather enlightened in this regard. With a school song, everyone could choose whatever tune they liked; as long