Dumbledore and the Rat, Map; also: WWII parallel

[Brooks A. Rowlett]

No: HPFGUIDX 1020

This is in response to two different people's comments:

> But, I want to agree, Fred and George just did not notice "Peter 
> Pettigrew" among hundreds of names. The name didn't have the 
> significance to them that it did to Lupin, Sirius, etc. 

Except we know that at some point RON had been told by his dad about
Pettigrew, because the day after Harry learns in 3 Broomsticks about
Pettigrew and Sirius (at least the known version) it is Ron who tells
Harry that all Pettigrew's mother got was the Order of Merlin and the finger.


> When I read in Dumbledore's short bio in SS that he "defeated the 
> dark wizard Grindlewold in 1945" .... I 
> immediately thought of the parallel event happening in the Muggle 
> world that same year--the defeat of Hitler.  Is it too much of a 
> conclusion to jump to that WWII might have spilled over into the 
> wizard world?  Perhaps Grindlewold [sp?] was aiding Hitler somehow--
> didn't I hear somwhere that Hitler was very interested in the 
> supernatural?.....  But at the very least, my idea would make an interesting 
> starting point for a fanfic.

Uhm - if anybody else is doing this, fine, but I actually have three and
a half chapters of this done (time to confess that, for the first time
in years, I am inspired to try my hand at a bit of fan fiction).  I
spent part of this weekend reading _The Occult History of the Third
Reich_.  I'm waiting to get more done and have someone do a proofread &
sanity check for e before i sent it to anyone else.

-Brooks