[HPforGrownups] Re: Grindelwald

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 4419

Jim Flanagan wrote:

> 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."

Yeah, I'd made that association, and also thought she picked this name
because it sounds so Germanic, and in context with the date of 1945, it
makes a WWII parallel inescapable.

--Amanda