Quirrell

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 117617


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "khinterberg" 
<khinterberg at y...> wrote:

> Why, when Death Eaters won't even say his name, can a young 
professor with Vapormort on the back of his head say it without 
any sign of fear whatsoever?  There is no "Dark Lord" business, 
no trace of a cringe or sign on pain...what, frankly, is the deal?
> 

It's a funny thing about secret names -- there's not much point 
unless *somebody* is allowed to say or hear them. 

"It was a name I was already using at Hogwarts, to my most 
intimate friends only, of course. [...] a name I knew wizards 
everywhere would one day fear to speak." --CoS ch 17

We know, then, that Voldemort has always allowed his closest 
supporters to hear his name. Might he not also allow them to 
speak it?


Fake!Moody uses the name. Lucius Malfoy does not flinch when 
Dumbledore speaks it at the end of CoS. Several, but not *all* of 
the Death Eaters in the MoM hiss when Harry speaks it.  Bella 
says, "You dare speak his name with your unworthy lips, you 
dare besmirch it with your half-blood's tongue, you dare--" (OOP 
ch 35) which sounds to me as if certain worthy, pure-blooded 
individuals are allowed to use it. She does not flinch when she 
hears it from Harry's lips again in chapter 36.

As usual, it's possible to draw contradictory conclusions from all 
this, in no particular order.

1) It's a Flint. JKR is  sloppy and doesn't always show the Death 
Eaters flinching from the name or fearing to use it.

2) It's a Clue. Voldemort's most loyal followers are allowed to 
use the name, as a mark of favor, or to mislead the enemy. In 
that case, no one can be elimated from consideration as a 
hidden Death Eater by their willingness to use the name.

Pippin