Dumbledore once told Anton that no one was all-powerful. There were so many things we had no choice but to accept, and in the end, they could only become regrets.
It wasn't cowardice. It was the bleak helplessness that came from struggling ever harder against the changes of a long life, only to find yourself powerless.
In his view, revolutionaries were destined to meet with misfortune.
Anton had once analyzed all this from the perspective of magic. Given that every living being was great, the vast majority of the Collective Consciousness was ultimately made up of ordinary people. They didn't understand whether it was better to uphold the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy or Wizarding supremacy. They only knew that they hated everything war brought.
That was the cruelest part. When the Collective Consciousness detested something, that resistance would eventually become Fate's struggle against those who had brought it about.
All that resistance would fall silent when the revolution ended. The victors would enjoy all its fruits, while the revolutionary would receive Fate's benevolent gifts, borne from the Collective Consciousness that had gathered around them in the people's support.
That is, if the revolutionary had the last laugh.
Otherwise, it was just like Dumbledore reaping Grindelwald's victory.
To delve further, Anton could even use Fate Magic to explain why Grindelwald was destined to die after Dumbledore's death.
Ultimately, Fate wasn't some god that might or might not exist. It was merely magic, stirred by the gathering of the Collective Consciousness. That was all.
And yet that was precisely what made Fate so wondrous.
When Voldemort and his Death Eaters spent decades spreading terror and slaughter through the European Wizarding World, the center of the wizarding world, countless people came to know him as a "bad person," a "Dark Lord." At