OoP: Dumbledore's fight against Voldemort

[marephraim]

No: HPFGUIDX 65344

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "T.M. Sommers" <tms2 at m...> 
wrote:
> Tamara wrote:
> > 
> > Did anyone else find it, if not strange, then interesting, that
> > Dumbledore called Lord Voldemort Tom when they were fighting??  I
> > hope it means that he will be starting a campaign to bring to an 
> > end the whole "You Know Who" thing.  By calling him Tom Riddle
> > instead of He Who Must Not Be Named, or even Voldemort, it 
> > brings V down a few levels in the fear department.
> 
> I think he was doing it to goad him.  Make him angry, affect his
> judgment, and look for him to make a mistake because of it.

I took it as Dumbledore's familiarity with He Who Must Not Be 
Named's history and as a sort of appeal to the child who later 
became You Know Who (remember Sean Connery calling Harrison 
Ford "Indiana in "Last Crusade?"). I agree with Tamara that it also 
brings You Know Who down a peg or two psychologically, reminding him 
of his youth and Dumbledore's age and wisdom, perhaps even favour, 
in teaching him during that younger period.

M.E.