Voldemort's Names

[Sabrina]

No: HPFGUIDX 60269


> What I find interesting is that in ss/ps, page 11, AD refers to
> Voldemort as "his proper name". Why would he saw that when it's
> oviously not?
>
> Animagikat

 Linda(Me):
       I always thought that Dumbledore considers Voldemort to be
his true name because Tom Riddle went through so many "magical
transformations" that there is really nothing of Riddle left. All
that is left is Voldemort. Even Hagrid thinks that "there was not
enough human left in him to die".

Just my two knuts, Linda


And additionally, I can understand if you constantly hear somebody say
You-Know-Who-this and He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named-that, especially if she is a
close friend of yours (as I assumes McGonagall is) and you think of her as
brave and intelligent that it can get on your nerves quite  a bit.

I know I have always wondered why some people used HWMNBN (please, don't
make me type it again! *g*) instead of You-Know-Who which is much easier and
faster to say which actually led to this post in the first place.

And I just another look my notes about the names and had an idea: What if
many different uses of Voldemort's name by one person show a certain
ambivalence toward him?

My canon example for this is: Crouch Sr.
In the beginning (pensieve scene)  he certainly was against Voldemort and
still he freed his Death Eater son out of Azkaban, knowing this was a
security risk. And he calls Voldemort by the names Dark Lord, Lord Voldemort
and HWMNBN, according to my theory names very different kind of people would
use (Death Eater [associate], opponent of Voldemort and somebody who is very
frightened of him). And in canon Crouch is  a gray character, not really on
either side.

Pettigrew is another one of those characters who uses a varity of names:
Dark Lord, Voldemort and HWMNBN. IMO that could show that not everything
about him is as clear cut as it seems to be. Sure, he was a good guy in the
beginning and then turned but IMO that doesn't really qualify for gray.
Therefore I think his role in the books will probably change again (my bet:
life debt which I think had already an influence on his behaviour in GoF
where he wanted to convince Voldemort to kidnap somebody other than Harry
[Ch. 1]).

Sabrina