Riddle vs Voldemort (Was: Feeling his pain)

[Trina]

No: HPFGUIDX 15957

Crystal wrote:
> 
> Dumbledore has told Harry to not be afraid to use people's names 
before.  There was (I believe) something right after that about 
avoiding Voldemorts true name only instills more fear. The reason 
people flinch so much when they hear "Voldemort" is because that 
makes him more real, somehow.  


But Lord Voldemort is *not* his "true name."  His true name would be 
Tom Marvolo Riddle, something that only Harry and Dumbledore know.  
When he sank into the dark arts so heavily, I think he changed his 
name for two reasons. 1) He wanted no part of the Muggle father who 
abandoned him and 2) He knew that Tom Riddle was not a name with 
which to inspire fear.  He tells Harry in CoS that he had started 
calling himself LV while in school, but only his most intimate 
friends knew it.  (Query:  Where are those friends now and who 
were/are they?) 

Okay, I am rambling, but here's my point.  What would happen if 
Voldy's true identity were known by the rest of the wizarding world?  
How would that influence the upcoming fight?  ("That's who You-know-
who is?  Why, I went to school with that dispicable little prat!  I 
always knew he'd turn out to be no good. He convinced Binns I cheated 
on the Goblin Rebellion exam! Let me at him!") Would it make any 
difference?  How about if it were common knowledge he was a half-
Muggle himself?  How would his minions react to that?

Trina, using GoF as a booster seat on top of a stepstool while her 
computer desk chair is being fixed.