Connection: Almost everybody/Mr. Kurtz and Dumbledore/Grindelwald

Please don't eat me for making a Harry Potter connection! I couldn't help but notice similarities between Mr. Kurtz in HoD and Grindelwald in Harry Potter. Grindelwald was anti- Muggle and was planning a plot to have wizard domination over Muggles. Dumbledore was captivated by Grindlewald and joined him in his quest for wizard domination. On the surface, the pair made their plot seem okay by saying all progress would be for "the greater good," while in reality what they were doing was domineering and evil. In Heart of Darkness, Mr. Kurtz had a captivating quality over not just one person, but many, particularly the Harlequin. In his text, he said "we whites 'must necessarily appear to them [savages] in the nature of supernatural beings- we approach them with the might as of a deity.'" He said "'by the simple exercise of our will we can exert a power for good practically unbounded.'" In the margin, however ,the words "Exterminate all the brutes" were written. This is very similar to Grindelwald, who got Dumbledore to believe they were doing good, when reality he was all for the extermination of Muggles. Both Kurtz and Grindelwald had power, and people were attracted to it. Both examples show how people's views of what is right can be skewed by the unquenchable thirst for power.