The Dark Wizard Grindelwald

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 3376


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From: "ht " <hilary_tamar at hotmail.com>
To: <HPforGrownups at egroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 1:02 PM
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Lots of Topics


> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Joywitch " <joym999 at a...> wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Catlady <catlady at w...> wrote:
> > I think Rita has hit upon something important here that we havent
> > discussed (imagine that!  an aspect of HP that we havent picked to
> > death yet!).  Why IS everyone so scared of Voldy?  All we know is
> > that he killed a bunch of people.  While that is pretty bad, is a
> > wizard serial killer bad enough to put a whole society in such a
> > fright?
>
> Voldy's not just a wizard serial killer. It's more like living in
> Berlin in the late 1930s, waiting for the Nazis to kick in the door.
> Gosh, you think that's what she intended? ;-)

In HP-SS, Chap. 6, the trading card for Dumbledore tells us that his
particular claim to fame is his defeat of a Dark Wizard by the very
Teutonic-sounding name of Grindelwald - in 1945! (Coincidence? I don't think
so....)

Grindelwald, IIRC, has not been mentioned again.  Is this another case of
that curious Wizardly penchant for recent-history amnesia that also
swallowed up the early years of Tom Riddle?

    - CMC