Voldemort vs. Riddle

[ellejir]

No: HPFGUIDX 77608

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Veritabatim wrote:
> <snip> > > 
> > If one can gain power over a lich by confronting the, uh, being 
> with the true name, wouldn't Dumbledore tell everyone in the 
> Order -- heck, everyone he met -- to call Voldemort Tom Riddle? 
> It gets me thinking that there's a reason for Dumbledore to keep 
> Voldemort's previous identity to himself. <snip> >
 
> Robyn replied:
> Interesting idea, but a problem occurs to me.  Lucius Malfoy 
> must know of LV's previous identity, as he had had in his 
> possession T.M. Riddle's diary, and undoubtedly knew that 
> Riddle was the younger version of LV.  Perhaps others of the 
> DEs don't have this same information; it can be argued that 
> Bellatrix doesn't know LV's "heritage", so to speak, as shown by 
> her reaction to Harry telling her that LV was not a pureblood in 
> the battle scene in OoP.  Of course, she could well have had the 
> same hostile reaction to anything Harry might have said, as 
> that's her game, to protect LV.  Certainly Wormtail knows that 
> Riddle = LV, as he was in Riddle Sr.'s house, and took part in 
> "robbing" his grave in GoF. 
>

Now Me:
Yes but Lucius Malfoy, Bellatrix and Wormtail are all baddies, so it 
doesn't matter whether or not they know the name.  More problematic 
is why DD would not tell others in the order (perhaps he did) and why 
Tom Riddle *himself* tells Harry that he is Lord Voldemort.  (You 
could argue that the last instance was just garden-variety ill-
advised gloating of an evil overlord before he attempted to kill his 
seemingly-cornered victim.)  
There is a similar theme in the Susan Cooper "The Dark is Rising" 
series in that the representatives of the "Dark" can be vanquished by 
calling them by their true names.
Elle