Voldemort's name

[susanbones2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 82014

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jwcpgh" <jwcpgh at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Mina-Clare Moseley 
> <minaclare at s...> wrote:
> <snip> 
> > When you think about it, Tom Riddle as a sixteen-year-old, 
thought 
> of Dumbledore as nothing more than the Transfigurations Professor. 
> If he were a famous dark wizard fighter at that time, I'm sure he 
> would have commented on it.
> 
> Laura:
> 
> But wouldn't Tom's time at Hogwarts have been after the Grindelwald 
> incident in 1945?  It was 50 years before CoS, which was late 90's, 
> right?
> 
> The use of Tom's name is typical DD, I think-it works on several 
> levels, as Jen pointed out, and DD is going to try whatever works 
to 
> weaken LV.


I thought when he used the name "Tom" that he was trying to humanize 
LV, force him to remember that underneath all the transformations and 
changes, that he is still "Tom Riddle." And it occured to me that 
Dumbledore's telling him there are other ways of defeating a man than 
by killing him, might just be what Dumbledore's after. Humanizing LV 
would defeat him, by LV's own lights.
Jennifer