Dumbledore is Beowulf

[Morgan Adams]

No: HPFGUIDX 135412

I'm sure there is someone more well read than I could explain this connection. All the theories about Gindlewald got me thinking about a literary connection between JKR's books and some literary classics. I'm sure this has been mentioned before, but it just occurred to me.

Do we know that Grindlewald was a human or a monster?

The monster in the Beowulf (AKA Dumbledore) legend is named Grendel (AKA Grindlewald). In the legend Beowulf tears off Grendel's right arm. Grendel's mother returns to avenge her son. Beowulf eventually overcomes the monster when he sees a legendary sword and cuts off her head and the head of Grendel. The sword melts on his way back. 

When Beowulf is an old man he is threatened by a new monster, a dragon (AKA Voldemort). A younger kinsman, Wiglaf (AKA Harry) is the only one to stand by Beowulf. Wiglaf slays the dragon (actually Beowulf gives the last jab). As he dies, Beowulf gives Wiglaf his kingdom. Beowulf is honored with a magnificent funeral rite - burned on a pyre. 

This is not a really fleshed out theory, but I thought there were too many similarities to JKR's work to ignore it.

--Morgan