[HPforGrownups] Re: The wizarding world and the world wars

[eloiseherisson at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 46080

In a message dated 04/11/2002 18:02:05 GMT Standard Time, 
msbonsai at mninter.net writes:


> Hmm.  Well you peeked my interest, so I did some research.  I hope 
> I'm not doing something wrong by posting the quotes I found:
> 
> http://www.wizardwords.net/
> "Grindelwald is the name of a ski resort in Switzerland. Grendel is 
> the monster defeated by Beowulf in the Old English epic poem. Wald is 
> German for forest."
> 

More pertinently, in etymology, 'Wald' is Teutonic for 'power'.

Eloise


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