WWII parallel and Ratings

[Steve Bates]

No: HPFGUIDX 1032

> > 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

I wasn't actually planning to write any kind of fanfic about this (I 
am too lazy and don't have enough time), but I'm very interested to 
see what you are doing with the premise, Brooks.  Good luck.
Brooks also seems to have desbribed the ratings system in a nutshell; 
it is an important point that children under 17 *can* see an R rated 
movie if their parents choose to bring them; it is somewhat 
distressing to see six year olds watching something like a Lethal 
Weapon movie.  As for what Joy says about being able to easily get 
into R movies when she was under 17, this really depends on the 
whether the theater goes to the trouble of "carding" the kids.  I 
look old enough that I wasn't carded after I turned 16, but I hear 
they have been cracking down more in my area in the last year or so.