Voldemort and Grindelwald (WAS: What year was Voldemort born?)

[ggershman77 <ggershman77@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 50912

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tom Wall 
<thomasmwall at y...>" 
> <thomasmwall at y...> wrote:
> > 
> <snip> 
> > This is incredible! It seems very likely that 
> > Grindelwald was a Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts. 
> <snip>

This would fit nicely for those who like to read the HP books as 
Christian stories.
 
Voldemort==Lucifer, invading the kingdom of Heaven (Hogwarts as 
heaven, Dumbledore as God, kicking him out, etc).

There are clues to Hogwarts being Heaven.  When we first enter the 
great hall in SS/PS, "It was hard to believe there was a ceiling 
there at all, and that the Great Hall
didn't simply open on to the heavens."

Dumbledore has many omniscient qualities, for example, he tells Harry 
(in SS/PS), "I don't need a cloak to become invisible."  And many 
more.

It might help to explain the somewhat tarnished track record he has 
had in the past in spotting threats.  He knows about them, but 
chooses to let others deal with them so that they can learn.  I 
realize this does not work in all cases, but it does in some.  For 
example, Harry says at the end of SS/PS, "I think he
sort of wanted to give me a chance. I think he knows more or less 
everything that goes on
here, you know. I reckon he had a pretty good idea we were going to 
try, and instead of
stopping us, he just taught us enough to help. I don't think it was 
an accident he let me
find out how the mirror worked. It's almost like he thought I had the 
right to face
Voldemort if I could."

This does not work for GoF and Moody/Crouch, though.

Recently, I was speculating if the whole of SS/PS is not in fact a 
setup by Dumbledore to have Harry come face to face with Voldemort, 
and to teach him about power and good and evil.  In retrospect, I 
dont find this explanation as compelling as the straight forward 
explanation.  Still, it bears thinking about.  Dumbledore definetly 
orchestrated from the Chapter entitled "The Mirror of Erised" and on.

Greg
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