Cedric, Snape and carma was re: Chapter Discussion: Prisoner of Azkaban

[nikkalmati]

No: HPFGUIDX 190636



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bart at ...> wrote:
>
> Jacob:
> > When Dumblebore dueled Grindelwald and beat him to obtain the
> > deathstick do you believe Grindelwald was dueling to kill?
> 
> Bart:
>      I don't really follow JKR's interviews, so I don't know what she 
> has said outside of canon on the subject, but frankly, based on what we 
> have been told, it is clear that DD could not have beat Grindelwald in a 
> straight duel (from DD's contention that Grindelwald was almost as good 
> as him, the demonstration of the wand's effectiveness in its ability to 
> repair Harry's wand). Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that DD used 
> non-magical means to even the odds.

Nikkalmati

It had been a long time since they had met and I'm not sure that DD hadd not overtaken Grindenwald in ability.  I suspect DD would not have met Grindenwald, without being fully prepared.  As to the wand,  Grindenwald could not have been its Master because he stole it.  He did not get it in a fight.
 Nikkalmati

<snip>
>      Now, let's go a little out of canon. Even those of us who do not 
> read her interviews would be hard put to not have heard the well 
> publicized statement by JKR that DD was gay. One of the comments that 
> have been often made is that this piece of information was totally 
> superfluous; there was nothing in the stories which would have changed 
> if DD liked having sex with men, women, or goats for that matter. 
> However, if DD's relationship with Grindelwald was partially sexual in 
> nature, he could have used some comment alluding to that to distract 
> Grindelwald just long enough to win the duel.
> 
>      And that is my guess as to what happened.
> 
>      Bart
>
Nikkalmati

I don't know about that - they had not seen each other in about a hundred years.  I do think that DD put off going after Grindenwald (which he regretted) and did not kill him, "for old times sake".

Nikkalmati