[HPforGrownups] Grindewald?

[Laura Hale]

No: HPFGUIDX 32517


----- Original Message -----
From: "Katze" <jdumas at kingwoodcable.com>
To: <HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: [HPforGrownups] Grindewald?


> Lily Potter wrote:
> 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

Didn't JK once say she named people after places she has been too such as
Snape, Dudley and Dursley?  Grindelwald is an actual place in Switzerland.
http://www.grindelwald.net/Grindelwald_live.htm  Perhaps this is just
another place she can't go (assuming it's evil since Dumbledore defeated
Grindelwald.)

Laura Hale
http://writersu.s5.com/