[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore's Grindelwald defeat

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 20907

Stephanie Roark Keener wrote:

> According to the chocolate frog card, Dumbledore is famous for his
> defeat of the Dark Lord Grindelwald in 1945.  Does anyone else see
> the WWII connection here?  Is it plausible that such a huge war was
> the result of upheval in the Magical World -- or even that Hitler was
> controlled by or WAS Grindelwald?

At the very least, I find it easy to believe that Hitler and
Grindelwald were in some way connected (possibly allied?).  IIRC
it's a documented historical fact that Hitler was "into" the
occult (a fact that many writers of fiction have pounced on with
glee.  Remember "Raiders of the Lost Ark"?).

Though I wouldn't go so far as to speculate that WWII was the
=result= of an upheaval in the Magical World.  More the other way
around, if anything, or at the very least the outside causes of
the one were the causes of the other.  IMHO the two "worlds" are
not so separate as either of them likes to believe.  :)


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>