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[Carol]

Bdclark quoted the following passage:
> > And lack of fear of the name gets you caught by the Taboo and
captured by the DE Ministry (it's hard to distinguish between them at
that point). I keep wondering if the Taboo were already in effect
during Vold War I, and was responsible for so many members of the
Order of the Phoenix (trained by DD not to fear a name) being killed.
> >
> > I hope not. Despite DD's flaws, I think he's good enough at magic
to have detected the Taboo, and I hate to think he'd throw his
followers'lives away for something that didn't even advance his plans.
> >
> > Carol


Carol responds:

I'm not sure how my name got into this quote. These are catlady's
words. She was responding to me.

And catlady, my theory is that it was safe to safe the name
"Voldemort" at Hogwarts because of all the protections on the castle,
but people outside Hogwarts discovered rather quickly that it wasn't
safe to say the name at all.

I certainly don't think that the Order members died because of DD's
throwing the Order members' lives away. They were probably aware of
the taboo if it existed, even if DD in his ivory tower wasn't. I think
it was Peter's treachery, which began at least a year before the
Potters died according to Sirius Black, that got so members killed.

Carol, sorry to snip bdclark's response but mainly pointing out that
this wasn't her post