[HPforGrownups] Riddle vs Voldemort (Was: Feeling his pain)

[Doreen]

No: HPFGUIDX 15968




Crystal wrote:
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> 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.
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Sort of like cancer ... but then Voldemort is also sort of like cancer ..
the cancer of the wizard world.

On a lighter note, maybe if Harry says "Tom Morvolo Riddle" out loud to
Voldie, he will be banished to a spirit like state ... oh .. never mind ...
that was Superman and what's his name ... sorry.

Disregard the blonde from Iowa whose heroes all wear capes


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.



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