[HPforGrownups] Grindelwald reprise

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 53444

Jodel said:

>I thing that the 1945 date firmly ties the Grindlewald clue (if it is
>actually a clue to anything) into the Riddle plotline. From what we already
>know, the events which took place in 1945 are;
>
>1. Tom Riddle finishes his 7th year at Hogwarts.
>2. Tom Riddle, no longer an underage wizard,  kills his father and
>grandparents in Little Hangleton, using the AK curse.
>3. Tom Riddle drops off the face of the earth.
>4. Albus Dumbledore defeats the Dark wizard Grindlewald.

>Add to this the observation that Riddle learned what he knew of the Dark
Arts
>from *somewhere*. He was Muggle-raised and did not arrive at Hogwarts with

It's interesting to speculate about whether and where there are repositories
of "dark" knowledge where an aspiring power seeker like Tom Riddle would
find what he was looking for.

It would suggest that there is some sort of wizardly "underworld" where
someone like Riddle might find the kind of contacts that would lead him into
the "dark" conspiracy of his day (and I'm fairly sure that conspiracies go
on all the time, though they only sometimes erupt into full blown
insurgencies - we don't even know whether Grindelwald went as far as
Voldemort before he was defeated).

When Voldemort was reduced, he ended up in Albania. Why there, I wonder?
Maybe that's where he was in the missing years. Maybe there was some sort of
"dark" seminary to which he was passed in the late 1940s through the
wizardly underground and where he did his dark arts training.

Cheers

Ffred

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