DD: an appreciation (Was Re: Snape, A Murderer?)

[nessaaldarion]

No: HPFGUIDX 96217

 Kneasy wrote:
> I think people are taking this Hitler/Nazi/WWII thing a bit too far.
> Yes, JKR has intimated that that's one of the templates for Voldy
> and the DEs, but it doesn't *necessarily* mean that the Grindelwald
> affair happened in Germany. 

and nessa says:
just a tiny point, but Grindelwald is an area of Switzerland...  I 
always assumed that was where the pre-Voldy Big Bad hailed from.
Im looking into any connections/myths/etc with that region that are 
applicable to HP, but I find it interesting that there might have 
been a war going on in a 'neutral'country...
nessa xxx