World War Parallels

[milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 1771

Funny you mention this because dumbledore defeated the Dark Wizard, 
Grindelwald (sounds sort of Teutonic doesn't it) in 1945...Maybe The 
Axis had a Dark Wizard working on their side?

Also, the description of Bartemus Crouch Sr..."severely parted hair" 
and a "toothbrush moustache"...was reminiscent of Adolf Hitler.

milz

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Brooks R" <brooksar at i...> wrote:
> I've been meaning to post (since I had earlier mentioned a couple 
or 
> three mild parallels) a rather different thought I had over the 
last 
> few days:  Try this one for parallels.
> 
> "Vold War I"  - ended when he disappeared upon attacking Harry
> 
> "Vold War II" - the one that is coming in the remaining books.....
> 
> What we have read so far is the "Between the Wars" period, with 
> Voldemort (enemy) rearming and recovering the power that was 
knocked 
> down, but not destroyed, as originally thought, at the end of the 
> First Vold War/First World War.   Other people than I have remarked 
> that we thought of Neville Chamberlain in character, in the 
portrait 
> of Fudge we get at the end of GoF (I was not even the first person 
to 
> say it on the list, although I certainly thought it when I read 
GoF). 
> (By the way, I have acquired an interesting analytic book lately 
that 
> suggests Chamberlain pretty much *had* to appease, to buy time for 
> Britain to re-arm).
> 
> The previously thought-of WWII parallels, of course, include the
> "Pure Blood"/Aryan kind of thing exemplified by Draco Malfoy's 
> attitude (and hair color).  
> 
> -Brooks