《Hermione Granger》
Hermione tiptoed into the restricted section of the library under Harry's invisibility cloak, which she had borrowed/stolen. Her research was starting to bear fruit... fruit that was very troubling.
Sitting down at her desk, she opened up her folder, which was full of pictures she had pulled off the muggle internet. Many were in black and white- and not from an Instagram filter.
One of the black-and-whites was of what seemed like a family- except Raj and Professor Kirkland were in there. There was also a little Chinese boy that bore a strange resemblance to Yao. Raj had a tight look on his face, as if he would rather be doing anything than taking that photo.
There was also a blond man with a gentle smile holding a toy polar bear, a dark-skinned girl with a cheerful smile and pigtails, a boy with a wild grin and a bandage on his nose, and a boy with a calm smile and curls in his hair that was holding a toy sheep.
Another photo had Yao, Professor Kirkland, and Professor Bonnefoy (one of the professors from Beauxbatons that kept popping up in Professor Kirkland's classroom during class to bother him) in it. There were also two other men.
In the center was a grinning blond man with a cowlick and his arm slung around Professor Kirkland. Next to him was a tall man with an eerie smile, who had his hands on a scowling Yao's shoulders. Professor Bonnefoy was standing next to Professor Kirkland, and the two looked like they were "discreetly" pinching each other.
The men were all in authentic-looking military uniforms- Yao wearing China's, Professor Kirkland wearing the UK's, Professor Bonnefoy wearing France's, the blond man wearing America's, and the man with the eerie smile wearing Soviet Russia's. The man with the blond hair and cowlick had an identical face to that of the man with the polar bear in the earlier photo.
A third photo had a date on it- the day the Axis powers signed their pact. In it, there was a scowling blond-haired blue-eyed man with slicked back hair, a Japanese man with a bowl cut, and a beaming man with auburn hair and a stray curl. They were wearing the uniforms of the German, Japanese, and Italian military during World War II. The blond man even had a Nazi armband, which chilled Hermione to the bone.
While Hermione didn't recognize any of them, they did appear in another photo: in a selfie posted on Google maps, showing London in the background. The selfie was posted in 2015, but the trio still looked the same (albeit being in civilian clothing).
What on Earth was going on?
As she opened up another book, a cheerful voice made her blood freeze.
"Having fun, Hermione?"
So I've always wondered about how the nations kept hidden. Granted, Hetalia isn't really logic-based, but I tend to overthink things, so...
Obviously, they would have to keep hidden with all the animosity going on between nations.
Nazi Germany invaded and killed a ****-ton of people during World War II, so I doubt anyone would be happy about APH Germany just wandering around when 60 million people died in the Holocaust.
A lot Chinese and Koreans hate Japan with a passion because of what Imperial Japan did to them during World II (the Japanese also got Convenient Amnesia™ about it, an illness many nations who do bad stuff seem to present).
More examples being: Indians and Pakistanis hate each other, everyone hates America, Indians are pissed off at the Brits for the colonization, the Armenian Holocaust at the hands of the Turks, how Soviet Russia invaded its neighbours and were jerks, Spain (and England and France) killing off the native people during it's colonization of the Americas, etc.
To rub salt into these already very deep wounds, APH Germany and APH America are blond-haired blue-eyed people who are very much white.
The point being, the nations personifications wouldn't be able to walk around freely. But with today's conspiracy theorists and news channels and Google images... it would be hard to keep hidden. Someone would notice (that someone not being Harry or Ron. Seriously, there was a reason they weren't sorted into Ravenclaw).
But whatever. I'm just overthinking an anime.