[HPforGrownups] Re: Feeling his pain

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 15849

Katie Kearns wrote:
> 
> At 10:07 PM 4/2/01 +0000, you wrote:
> >
> >BTW: Does anyone find it strange that Dumbledore calls Voldemort:
> >Lord Voldemort, instead of just Voldemort - It is a honourary term in
> >his case, after all, and I would have thought that Dumbledore would
> >have been one of the last people to use it.  Any thoughts?
> >
> >Catherine
> 
> Maybe he knows where the name came from and it sort of reminds him that
> this horrible evil person is really just little Tom Riddle -- just a bit
> mixed up....

Something like that occurred to me too, but more in the context
of "if you know someone's true name, you have power over that
person" (common folkloric belief); that might be a reason for
Dumbledore to use a fuller version of the name.  (Going around
calling V. "I-Am-Lord-Voldemort" might be both cumbersome and
confusing!)


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>