[HPforGrownups] Re: Learning Voldemort's Name

[Melete]

No: HPFGUIDX 111489




> 
> 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.
> 

I've run off a more simplistic idea being that
sometimes saying the name of the thing invokes it. 
Perhaps I've read Wizard of Earthsea too many times.

Melete

--having had a few afternoons off writes a little too
much perhaps about things she knows too little about. 



	
		
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