Riddle vs Voldemort (Was: Feeling his pain)

[Rosmerta]

No: HPFGUIDX 15961

Trina wrote:
> 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?
> 
An even better question: how would the rest of the wizarding world 
react? At the end of GoF we see Dumbledore & Co. preparing for battle 
(reaching out to the giants etc.) but maybe the war at this point 
should be mostly PR. The worst thing that could happen is for the 
majority of wizards to react the way Fudge did--incredulously blaming 
the bad-news bearers. 

Dumbledore could shake a lot of people out of that paranoid paralysis 
by saying Voldemort's name as freqently and as loudly as possible, 
and by painting him as the has-been loser that he is (the guy was 
crawling in the dirt as an undead being for 13 years; for his big 
comeback number, he attacks a wounded 14-year-old boy who still 
manages to defeat him; and he can't even get his old quorum of loyal 
servants to show up for his rebirth).  

~Rosmerta~