Grindelwald Dumbledore Forests and Curse Scars (long)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 96905

fiondavhar wrote:
> I suppose lots of you know that the Dark Wizard Grindelwald shares 
> his name with a mountain town in Switzerland. I looked into the 
> etymology of that name, and found this. 
> 
> "Wald means "woods," but speculation over Old Germanic Grindel most 
> probably narrows the meaning down to either "fence" or "shelf." Hence 
> we can conjure up some pretty powerful imagery, such as "Wooded 
> Shelf" or maybe even "Barricade Forest"..." or this - 'Grindel 
> means "fierce, angry" and wald is German for "forest"'.
> 
> So, fierce forest or barricaded forest, in this case, barricaded by 
> the fierce mountains. "The mountains, which had previously been 
> considered threatening and inhospitable forces of nature (teeming 
> with dragons, gnomes and spectres)..." (I liked that line when I 
> found it!)
>

Carol:
This may not be relevant, but "grindel" meaning "fierce, angry" also
suggests Grendel, the monster in "Beowulf." Makes Grindelwald a little
scarier, in my mind, at least.

Carol, with apologies for the short post