Dumbledore's past

eccleston at clara.co.uk eccleston at clara.co.uk
Wed Jun 20 17:46:14 UTC 2001


No: HPFGUIDX 21224

> Hi, Steve,
> 
> great post, but, er, I think we're not allowed to talk about WWII 
and 
> HP due to past unpleasantness on the list (which predates me as 
well 
> as you). I can certainly see why it would raise people's hackles. 
But 
> generically speaking, yes, I think it's not hard to imagine 
> Dumbledore as a resistance fighter in his day, and given what we've 
> seen of JKR's economy as a writer, I can easily imagine that, 
having 
> been mentioned so specifically, Grunwald and Dumbledore's past 
> heroics in general will resurface later. 
> 
> ~Rosmerta, who also read HP to her 7-yr-old and now understands a 
> little better why that's legally considered "the age of reason."


Sorry! I hope no one was offended.

Steve





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