WWII & HP

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 1101

Hi everyone --

A friend of mine (who lurks on this list & is on vacation right now in
any case) was asking me about something she remembered reading in the
Archives about the witches & wizards of Britain "casting spells" against
Hitler during WWII.  She mentioned this to her daughter, and now her
daughter's social studies teacher is interested in her doing more
research on this topic.  Given our recent discussions, my curiosity was
piqued.  I started searching our new Archives and didn't find anything.
Since my friend & I also belong to hpanonymous, I searched those
Archives.  Bingo.

31 July 1940 is allegedly the date that the witches & wizards of Britain
raised a "cone of power" that "stopped" Hitler's planned invasion of
England.  My memory is that Hitler abandoned Operation Sea Lion sometime
in Sept 1940, when it became clear that the Luftwaffe would be unable to
achieve air superiority in time for a viable crossing of the English
Channel that year.  Sea Lion was never revived for a variety of
reasons.  Nonetheless, I'm very very intrigued by this "cone of power"
business.  The person later responded that her source for this
information was Llewellyn's Witches' Datebook  for 2000 (presumably the
31 July entry).  She says there's also a fictional account of the
raising of the "cone of power" entitled "Lammas Night" -- she couldn't
recall the author.  I just searched amazon, and the author is Katherine
Kurtz (1987) but the book is out of print.  I may see if I can find it
though, as I'm quite interested.

BTW, Brooks I'd be more than happy to beta-read your fanfic if you want
some comments.

Penny