Grindelwald

[Jim Flanagan]

No: HPFGUIDX 4402

Here's another thought:  "Grendel" was a monster persecuted by 
Beowulf (unjustly, according to modern author John C. Gardner -- see 
the book cover in Files / Book Covers and Graphics / Graphics / 
grendel.jpg). Perhaps Rowling is alluding to the old Grendel legend 
in the name "Grindelwald."

BTW, I highly recommend "Grendel" to this audience.  Gardner wrote a 
handful of literate and clever novels in his too-short life.  

-Jim Flanagan


> --- 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