[HPforGrownups] Grindewald?

[Katze]

No: HPFGUIDX 32514

Lily Potter wrote:
> 
> Margaret Dean said:
> > Oh ho, don't kid yourself!  Before Voldemort (just as an example)
> > there was Grindelwald, and after Voldemort there will be other
> > Dark Wizards, you can bet.  Voldie's just the latest and
> > greatest.  Wizards are, after all, only human . . .
> 
> Who is Grindewald? I don't recall that name. But you're right - evil will
> always exist and have to be fought.
> 

Dumbledore defeated "the great wizard Grindelwald" in 1945. You can find
this reference on the first chocolate frog that Harry finds on the train
to Hogwarts in SS/PS. You can also find a reference to him through
Dumbledore on the Lexicon. Some folks speculate that Grindelwald may
have been Hitler.

-Katze