Really though. We have been invited to just leap to all kinds of conclusions in the backstory of what was going on in the Potterverse over the 20th century. \
We assume, upon absolutely no evidence in the text, that there was a WWI *and* a WWII. We assume that the Nazi's were kicking up their heels during Tom's schooldays, and there is no actual reason (in the text) to conclude either one.
We know there was a *war* mid-century, since Frank Bryce was invalided home from it by the summer of 1942, but we have NO idea who the Brits were fighting, or over what. Or whether the war was actually *over* by then. We know that there was no evacuation of children from London during Tom's school years (1938-1945) since he spent every summer at the orphanage *in London*. Which would not have been the case in our history.
And reasonably speaking, given that GG was visibly *young* when he stole the Elder wand, wouldn't it make a lot more sense to conclude that his real heyday was over the period of *WWI*, and the period between the wars (assuming there were two, I suspect Rowling would say there were) than that he only started making his push for dominence in the late '30s?
Like I say, I'd find it easier to believe that Grindelwald's part in whatever uproar was going on had come unraveled by 1940, and that they only needed Albus to shut *him* down, not the war itself.
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Really though. We have been invited to just leap to all kinds of conclusions in the backstory of what was going on in the Potterverse over the 20th century. \
We assume, upon absolutely no evidence in the text, that there was a WWI *and* a WWII. We assume that the Nazi's were kicking up their heels during Tom's schooldays, and there is no actual reason (in the text) to conclude either one.
We know there was a *war* mid-century, since Frank Bryce was invalided home from it by the summer of 1942, but we have NO idea who the Brits were fighting, or over what. Or whether the war was actually *over* by then. We know that there was no evacuation of children from London during Tom's school years (1938-1945) since he spent every summer at the orphanage *in London*. Which would not have been the case in our history.
And reasonably speaking, given that GG was visibly *young* when he stole the Elder wand, wouldn't it make a lot more sense to conclude that his real heyday was over the period of *WWI*, and the period between the wars (assuming there were two, I suspect Rowling would say there were) than that he only started making his push for dominence in the late '30s?
Like I say, I'd find it easier to believe that Grindelwald's part in whatever uproar was going on had come unraveled by 1940, and that they only needed Albus to shut *him* down, not the war itself.