The basilisk gateway, was: Preparing

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "constancevigilance" <constancevigilance at ...> 
wrote:
>
> 
> > But Tom gets unlucky (or lucky, depending on your poinnt of view),
> > 'cos old Sal is in, active and looking for a new partner now that
> > Grindelwald has proved such a disappointment.
> > The rest, as they say, is history.
> > 
> 
> CV, confused here. You think Salizar had something to do with 
> Grindelwald? I was just thinking that Grindelwald was a Nazi wizard 
> who was sent to occupied Norway to open a magnet school for the Dark 
> Arts. I thought that even before JKR said that the magical world was 
> involved in WWII. In my thesis, Dumbledore used (or created) the lake 
> portal to Durmstrang as part of that battle.
> 

Mmm. A previous idea - the evil that is Sally is recurrent, though with
different hosts; the good/evil battle has continued for 1,000 years,
with different incarnations of the leaders of both sides. (Why else
would DD be associated with a phoenix?)

Grindelwald.. Germanic name, but there again Voldemort is French...
and while he was defeating Grindy, DD was teaching at Hogwarts -
full-time too, not the lecture-free sinecure of headmastership. 
Still, I suppose he could have sneaked off early on Fridays.

But one has to wonder just how 'German' Grindelwald was.
Nothing to prevent him being a local lad with an ego that demanded
a fancy (and fashionably timely) moniker to impress the gullible.

 
Kneasy