The Grim?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 92791

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kathy King" <kking0731 at h...> 
wrote:

Kathy:
> Also, Grimmald sounds very much like the dark lord that Dumbledore 
defeated 
> in 1945, Grindelwald. Wonder if there's anything with that?

Geoff:
It has been suggested in the past that this is another of JKR's puns 
on names along the lines of Diagon Alley and Knockturn Alley. 
Grimmauld= grim old. Auld is a Scots dialect word for old. Edinburgh 
has the nickname of "Auld Reekie" and JKR has Edinburgh connections.