Voldermort not LV

Matt hpfanmatt at gmx.net
Tue Aug 17 23:21:04 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 110403

--- Karen wrote:
> I just re-read PS/SS, CoS, and PoA this weekend and 
> noticed something interesting. 
> 
> Harry never calls LV by his title  - Lord.  Many of you 
> may have picked up on this before but by time I was 
> finished book two....
> 
> I started scaning the books (all 5) looking for someone 
> else refer to LV as Voldemort without the Lord and have 
> only found one other person to use Voldemort instead of LV 
> and that is Herminone at the end of chapter 15 in OotP.
> 
> Dumbledore uses Lord Voldemort or Tom, Death eaters use Dark Lord, 
> even Sirius and Lupin use the title.

Not really.  Dumbledore and McGonagall both use plain "Voldemort"
throughout the first chapter of SS, where the original admonition to
"call him by his real name" appears:

[Dumbledore] "for eleven years I have been trying to persuade people
to call him by his proper name: Voldemort."  Professor McGonagall
flinched ....  "I have never seen any reason to be frightened of
saying Voldemort's name."

"I know you haven't, said Professor McGonagall, sounding half
exasperated, half admiring. "But you're different. Everyone knows
you're the only one You-Know- oh, all right, Voldemort, was frightened
of."

Same for Dumbledore in chapter 17: "Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always
use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the
thing itself."

Dumbledore never uses "Lord Voldemort" in SS.  He does in CS (where
the "Lord" part becomes significant as part of the anagram for Tom
Riddle's name).  The Harry-POV narrator also uses the term frequently
in CS and PA, as does Harry in dialogue with Arthur Weasley in chapter
5 of PA.  By PA, however, Dumbledore is back to plain old "Voldemort"
(ch. 22), which is the same appellation Sirius consistently uses (ch.
19; one exception).  I haven't gone through GF or OP, but I sort of
have the impression DD uses "Voldemort" alone when he is addressing
Harry or another ally, and "Lord Voldemort" when he is addressing a
broader audience.

-- Matt





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