Grindelwald and Badge Colors (WAS: A few questions)

[Tom Wall]

No: HPFGUIDX 66678

Joe in SoFla wrote:
1- What do we know about "Grindenwald?" How soon after AD defeats 
him does LV rise?

Tom replies:
Well, you might want to check out the Lexicon timeline on this one, 
as I'm not certain of the precise dates. I wrote a post a while back 
on the subject of a possible connection with Voldemort and 
Grindelwald, at message #50772. 

All we basically know about Grindelwald comes from the one reference 
to him from PS/SS, on the back of Harry's Chocolate Frog Card. I 
don't have the book handy, but I'm almost certain that you should 
check out the chapter where the kids are on the Hogwarts Express, 
and Harry gets Dumbledore's card.

Based on several threads at the time, I (off-canon) concluded that 
because Tom Riddle was probably leaving Hogwarts around the same 
time as Grindelwald was defeated by Dumbledore, and because 
Dumbledore mentions that Riddle associated himself with the 'worst' 
of wizard kind, that there was probably an unadmitted connection 
between the two greatest Dark Wizards of the 20th century. JKR, 
however, has decided not to validate any such thing, at least, not 
yet. ;-)


Joe in SoFla asked:
2- What color are the prefect badges?

Tom replies:
I'm guessing that they are adorned in the colors for each house. In 
OoP, Ch.9, p160 (US edition,) the description of Ron's badge comes 
when one of the twins grabs the envelope from his brother's hand and 
dumps it outside down:

"Harry saw something scarlet and gold fall into George's palm."

So, since the prefects' badges are pinned to their robes, I'm 
guessing that the scarlet and gold is the actual color of the badge, 
and not of any kind of ribbon or what-not. So, if all of the badges 
come in the house colors, then probably the only common denominators 
for the prefects' badges are their shape, size, and (unless the 
prefects get a wide berth for this) the location on the robes in 
which they are pinned.

-Tom