He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, You-Know-Who and Voldemort.

[Meira B]

No: HPFGUIDX 49570

I'm not sure if this has been brought up before (ad nauseatum, probably), 
and if it has, my honest apologies.

There is the theory that compares Voldemort to Hitler. Voldemort hates 
anyone who isn't a pure-blooded wizard, even though he isn't one himself 
(his dad was a muggle and his mom a witch). Hitler hated anyone who wasn't 
of the "Arian" race (tall, blond hair and blue eyes), and particularly the 
jews, when he himself wasn't an "Arian", also, both of them tortured and 
killed a lot of people, etc....

There are those that deny that the holocaust has ever existed, and that it 
has all been an invention of the jews, that it's not logical, etc. (Some of 
those who denied the whole thing were Hitler's followers themselves...)

(I hope it's not taboo to discuss this in this group...)

Some people in the books say "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named" instead of 
Voldemort. Dumbledore says that fearing the name increases fear of the thing 
itself, and I always thought that HWMNBN and "You-Know-Who" simply meant 
that people just didn't want to say "Voldemort".

Could it be that people who say HWMNBN say that because they want to live in 
denial? that they refuse to acknowledge that such a person can exist?

*takes out her copy of PS*

Ah, yes, (I was worried about movie contamination...) Ollivander says to 
Harry "After all, He Who Must Not Be Named did great things - terrible, yes, 
but great." (p. 65 Bloomsbury edition).

That is just one example that I found. There are probably others throughout 
the books that say HWMNBN instead of YKW. Ollivander might be one of those 
that want to deny that Voldemort's Reign of Terror has ever existed.

Sirius, Lupin, Harry, Dumbledore, they're all people who are aware that 
VOldemort did horrible things and they don't try to deny it, which is 
probably why they don't call him HWMNBN, and they all think that not calling 
people by their proper name is silly, which is why they don't say YKW.

Just throwing in my two knuts,
Meira.

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