The power of the real name was Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: Voldemort = Lich?

[fridwulfa]

No: HPFGUIDX 60348

Red Inkstone wrote
>
> At the same time, the idea that learning the true name of a being
> confers power over it is hardly unique to the lich--it's the reason
> Moses isn't let in on the secret of the Divine Name, but is told to
> make do with the substitute moniker "I Am Who I Am" (=Yahweh) as
> the "name" of the Deity who is talking to him.  Yahweh knows full
> well that Moses could invoke his name in magic spells and assumepower
> over him, so he offers this made-up name instead.
>


Me (Izaskun)
Well, don't forget Rumpelstiltskin.

"I will give you three days' time. If by then you know my name, then you
shall keep your child."

And later on....

"Is your name perhaps Rumpelstiltskin?"

"The devil told you that! The devil told you that!" shouted the little man,
and with anger he stomped his right foot so hard into the ground that he
fell in up to his waist. Then with both hands he took hold of his left foot
and ripped himself up the middle in two.




In fact, there are more similitudes to Harry Potter in this wonderful tale
by the Grimm Brothers.

'When the girl was alone the little man returned for a third time. He said,
"What will you give me if I spin the straw this time?"
"I have nothing more that I could give you," answered the girl.
"Then promise me, after you are queen, your first child."
"Who knows what will happen," thought the miller's daughter, and not knowing
what else to do, she promised the little man what he demanded. In return the
little man once again spun the straw into gold.'


And of course he comes back a year later and asks for what he had been
promissed. Mmmm.

Cheers, Izaskun