Saying Voldemort's name
Caius Marcius
coriolan at worldnet.att.net
Tue May 22 12:58:58 UTC 2001
No: HPFGUIDX 19179
--- In HPforGrownups at y..., catherine at c... wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Jenny T. Malmiola" <zenonah at y...> wrote:
> > I just began reading PS again and this hit me:
> >
>
> > 2.Can we because of this assume that everybody who uses name
> > Voldemort are close to Dumledore? (Of course many wizards close
to
> > Dumbledore are too afraid to say it, like Professor McGonagall.
> > Though I think some of them would propably feel courageous enough
> to
> > say it when they're with Dumledore, but not elsewhere. And IIRC,
> > wizards on the Dark Side say Dark Lord, not Voldemort. This has
> been
> > discussed.)
So far, only Dumbledore, Harry, Lupin and Black say the name on a
routine basis. McGonagall and Hagrid each say the name once in PS/SS,
but only with great reluctance. Tom Riddle says the name twice in
CoS. Moody/Crouch says the name once in his final confrontation with
Harry in GoF ("Voldemort's back, Harry? You're sure he's back?"), but
otherwise refers to "the Dark Lord" in this scene. And, oddly,
Cornelius Fudge says the name once in his final confrontation with
Dumbledore in Chap 36 of GoF ("You are prepared to believe that Lord
Voldemort has returned, on the word of a lunatic murderer, and a boy
who...well..."
I was in error when I stated recently that Crouch/Moody *never* used
the name. AFAIK, no one else has uttered it so far.
- CMC
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