Learning Voldemort's Name

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 111484

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ohneill_2001" 
<ohneill_2001 at y...> wrote:
> 
> Deb in NJ wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > How, then, have all of Harry's classmates LEARNED the name so 
> that 
> > > they know to shudder, shake, fall off chairs when they hear 
it? I 
> > > mean, if you've heard your whole life about "Harry Potter and 
He 
> > Who 
> > > Must Not Be Named" and then you hear somebody 
> > say "Voldemort" . . . 
> > > how DO you know that that's the same person?? (grin)
> > > 
> > 
> > Potioncat:
> > Funny. Very funny!
> >   JKR better hurry up with that next book or we'll be discussing 
> how 
> > many wizards can dance on the head of a pin.
> > 
> 
> Now Cory:
> 
> This is truly clever.  On a slightly more serious note, I've 
always 
> thought it was curious that people actually fear to speak 
Voldemort's 
> name.  I mean, there have been Muggles who could be likened to 
> Voldemort (Hitler, et al), but nobody has ever feared to speak 
their 
> names.  I wonder if speaking the name actually has some kind of 
> effect, like he draws power from those who fear him or something.
> 
> --Cory, who has never lived in Jersey but can see Hoboken from the 
> kitchen window of his apartment.

Meri adds in: Also it is possible that LV had some form of a mark 
that he left as a calling wherever he went, before he had the Dark 
Mark and the DEs, because we know from JKR that the DEs are an old 
group (and I always assumed that LV sort of took them over for 
himself at some point). Perhaps when people started disappearing or 
being killed in the first war rumors began about who was doing it 
and he slipped his name in somwhere for, oh I don't know, the 
publicity? 
Meri - who has been to Hoboken and had an aunt who lived in Jersey 
for many years...