It's given in the chapter 35 King's Cross. D didn't know who killed his sister and was afraid to hear from G that he did that. *have just checked the book, it's explicitly stated*
Actually, there's not much doubt that DD killed his sister, as Aberforth tells us there were four people in the room at the time, and three of them were doing the following things:
1) Grindelwald was torturing Aberforth with Crucio. 2) Aberforth was, well, being tortured. 3) Ariana was getting upset about the fighting and the torture.
And then there's Dumbledore.
I mean, I don't see who else could have killed her. The other two wizards were otherwise occupied at the time.
And DD certainly had a motive for wanting Ariana dead; she was in his way. He couldn't take care of a mentally ill sister AND grab the political power he and Grindelwald wanted so badly.
So I don't think there's much doubt about who killed Ariana--whatever DD later admitted.
Imo, in Rowling's universe there were 2 different wars at the same or nearly the same time - one in the wizarding world & another in the Muggle world. Wizards have stayed hidden from Muggles for centuries, so they couldn't/didn't take part in Muggle wars. Dumbledore could have prevented deaths of wizards, not of Muggles.
It's pretty clear from the text that Grindelwald's war is intended to parallel the Muggle one. And she has said repeatedly that the Death Eaters and their predecessors were based on Nazis. Some of the DE ideas--racial purity, the perceived inhumanity of those considered to be of a lesser species, the planned genocide of perceived inferiors, the enforced registration of said "inferiors" with the government bureaucracy, the Mengele-like twisted experiments of Grindelwald--it's just too close.
And, based on Grindelwald's backstory and DD's letter, we know that wizards didn't pick up the ideas from the Nazis. They were thinking of the same things...only decades earlier.
Therefore, I don't think it's unreasonable to believe that the ideas of one group fed into the ideas of another, and influenced them heavily.
It's an odious idea, precisely because Rowling handles the notion so clumsily. But I think that it fits the world.
Yes, it got on my nerves too. I hated chapters, like Magic is Might, which were full with that. Rowling isn't able to properly handle such material, or at least, hasn't shown the ability in HP.
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Re: Nice sporking.
Date: 2008-01-26 05:27 pm (UTC)Actually, there's not much doubt that DD killed his sister, as Aberforth tells us there were four people in the room at the time, and three of them were doing the following things:
1) Grindelwald was torturing Aberforth with Crucio.
2) Aberforth was, well, being tortured.
3) Ariana was getting upset about the fighting and the torture.
And then there's Dumbledore.
I mean, I don't see who else could have killed her. The other two wizards were otherwise occupied at the time.
And DD certainly had a motive for wanting Ariana dead; she was in his way. He couldn't take care of a mentally ill sister AND grab the political power he and Grindelwald wanted so badly.
So I don't think there's much doubt about who killed Ariana--whatever DD later admitted.
Imo, in Rowling's universe there were 2 different wars at the same or nearly the same time - one in the wizarding world & another in the Muggle world. Wizards have stayed hidden from Muggles for centuries, so they couldn't/didn't take part in Muggle wars. Dumbledore could have prevented deaths of wizards, not of Muggles.
It's pretty clear from the text that Grindelwald's war is intended to parallel the Muggle one. And she has said repeatedly that the Death Eaters and their predecessors were based on Nazis. Some of the DE ideas--racial purity, the perceived inhumanity of those considered to be of a lesser species, the planned genocide of perceived inferiors, the enforced registration of said "inferiors" with the government bureaucracy, the Mengele-like twisted experiments of Grindelwald--it's just too close.
And, based on Grindelwald's backstory and DD's letter, we know that wizards didn't pick up the ideas from the Nazis. They were thinking of the same things...only decades earlier.
Therefore, I don't think it's unreasonable to believe that the ideas of one group fed into the ideas of another, and influenced them heavily.
It's an odious idea, precisely because Rowling handles the notion so clumsily. But I think that it fits the world.
Yes, it got on my nerves too. I hated chapters, like Magic is Might, which were full with that. Rowling isn't able to properly handle such material, or at least, hasn't shown the ability in HP.
No, she hasn't. It's disturbing.