Lily. Was: Prank revisited.

[Susan]

No: HPFGUIDX 99522

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> > Renee:
> I think, too, that in assessing Snape's use of the M-word, we 
> have to remember that at this time although Voldemort had 
> begun his rise to power,  he was not yet  openly advocating or 
> committing atrocities. He might even have been making a great 
> show of condemning them, similar to Lucius Malfoy in CoS. 
> What I'm saying is the context for the word might have been 
> different. It might not yet carry the implication of  violence that
> it would acquire later.
> 
> 
Ok guys, I'm a bit behind in the posts, so I hope this hasn't been 
mentioned before, but what makes you say that LV wasn't advocating or 
committing atrocities, or moreover, that he may have been condemning 
them?  In Ch 1, pgs 10-11 in SS, DD says twice that the WW has had 
precious little to celebrate in the past 11 years.  The WW was 
frightened of him so much for the past 11 years that DD's been trying 
to convince them to call him by his real name, Voldemort.  So 
obviously, regardless of if teens at Hogwarts were being recruited, 
LV was already doing his thing when the Fab Four et al were still in 
school.

Susan :-)