Grindelwald

[Jim Flanagan]

No: HPFGUIDX 4392

Grindelwald is a major tourist destination for skiiing in 
Switzerland.  Hesse himself lived there.  JKR might have been aware 
of this, or it could have been an independent coinage 
(like "Muggles").

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Warmsley" <warmsley at b...> wrote:
> I was reading Herman Hesse's Gertrude (which is excellent), when
> the principal character goes off on holiday around Western
> Europe with his mother... after visiting Constance, Zurich,
> Interlaken, they wind up in... Grindelwald, which, if I'm not
> mistaken, is the name of the dark wizard defeated by Dumbledore
> in 1945. Anyone able to shed any light?
> 
> Jeremy