[HPforGrownups] The use of the name Voldemort

[Jai Marie]

No: HPFGUIDX 41123

Jean says:
<<And doesn't the insistence of Wizards of not saying his name, incite 
a fear that isn't there? If they weren't scared of Voldemort, perhaps he wouldn't be so powerful.>>

Dumbledore actually tells Harry this very thing in Ch. 17 of Sorcerer's Stone:  "Call him Voldemort, Harry.  Always use the proper name for things.  Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself."  (US Paperback Ed.)

Not sure why everyone else doesn't heed that advice.  We have that problem in modern society with various things as well, so maybe it's a sort of parallel.

Jai



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