OOTP Chapter Discussions, Chapter 24: Occlumency

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Melanie:
> > 6) Snape tells Harry many times in this chapter not to say the 
> name "Voldemort."  Why is it that even Voldemort's own followers 
> cannot say his name?  Is their significance in calling him the Dark 
> Lord?  (this is just something that I have always been curious 
> about..love to know what you guys think about it).
>   


Cassin: 
> Only a wizard of equal or greater power would dare. Such as 
> Dumbledore. Harry's got a lot of brass. He's also marked as 
> Voldemort's equal.
> 


Alla:

Frankly, this is one of the reasons why I started entertaining ESE! 
Snape after reading OoP for quite a long time. It does not 
necessarily mean that I thought of Snape as being already evil in 
OoP, BUT I thought that he is still very scared of Voldie and it 
could foreshadow that he could betray the Order again.

But as Pippin recently pointed out that Crouch!Moody also called 
Voldie by his name, so I will refrain from holding this incident 
against Snape for a while.


Regardless though, I feel very strongly that Harry by now EARNED the 
right to say Voldemort name as often as he wants to, so if Snape does 
not dare, he still has no right to decide whether Harry should say 
the name or not.
Especially since Dumbledore encourages Harry to say it.