Use of Hagrid's name - More names
gregory_lynn
gregory_lynn at yahoo.com
Mon May 10 18:01:06 UTC 2004
No: HPFGUIDX 98003
This whole discussion of Hagrid's name has been very interestig, and
I don't really have much to add except a question.
What views do you take when you combine the use of Hagrid's last name
with Dumbledore's incessant insertion of "professor" when Harry does
the same with Snape?
Anyone have any views on the discrepancy in the way Dumbledore refers
to Lord Thingy? He tells someone--McGonagall I think--that we should
use the proper names for things, and in doing so refers to Lord
Thingy as Voldemort. But then, when facing him directly, Dumbledore
calls him Tom.
I don't think it's a respect thing, or a button-pushing thing, but a
teacher-student thing. I think Dumbledore is trying to reach the boy
that was Tom Riddle before there ever was a Lord Voldemort.
Of course, if this is true, it means that the boy inside Voldemort
*can* be reached which would imply some sort of temporal ambiguity.
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