We can keep calling him Voldy

[persephone_kore]

No: HPFGUIDX 100100

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Aldo" <silver_owl_01 at y...> wrote:
> I just checked the rumors section of JKR's website and run across 
> this:
> 
> "JKR is deadly serious when she forbids people to call 
> Voldemort 'Voldy'
> 
> Erm... I was joking. I thought it was very amusing when I found a 
> chat room full of people calling him 'Voldy'. Maybe I should develop 
> a secret symbol that means 'this is a joke', a kind of anti-Dark 
> Mark? And incidentally... I wasn't really Squidward that day in the 
> MuggleNet chat room, either. That's a SpongeBob SquarePants in-joke. 
> I used a different name. So you can all stop logging on as Squidward 
> now ;)"
> 
> The woman is seriously developing a taste for messing with our heads 
> and yanking our chains, it seems. 
> 
> I hope she comes up with the "this is a joke" symbol fast or we'll 
> lose our minds.
> 
> "Aldo"

Well, really, quite a few people twigged that the tone of her "This Must Stop" 
pronouncement was rather teasing. Don't know about the Squidward thing; I haven't 
watched SpongeBob and am utterly clueless on the subject. I think I did notice some 
correlation between people who took it as dead serious (particularly without adding jokes 
about, "Well, I guess we'll stick to 'Thingy' now..." or the like) and a tendency to put what I 
consider to be far too much significance (and distress!) on her less favorable comments 
about various Slytherins.

PK