Re: JKR’s giant mistake?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 117688


Renee:

> And these are not typos; we're talking about content here, and 
still  such mistakes are easily made. Given the flints found 
elsewhere in  the HP series, it's not unthinkable that these five 
suspicious  Voldemorts have simply been overlooked. And then 
again, maybe not. I  guess this is one of those instances where I 
*would* like to know  what the author has to say...<
> 

I think it's a reader superstition that bad guys can't say 
"Voldemort", very carefully planted by JKR herself.

Here's the text:
"Well," said Lupin, frowning slightly, "I assumed that if the 
boggart faced you, it would assume the shape of Lord 
Voldemort."

Harry stared. Not only was this the last answer he'd expected, 
but Lupin had said Voldemort's name. The only person Harry 
had ever heard say the name aloud (apart from himself) was 
Professor Dumbledore. --PoA ch 8

The narrator's recollection is inaccurate, since Quirrell used the 
name, and so did Hagrid (PS/SS ch 4). It isn't the only inaccurate 
recollection in the chapter,  since  we're told Harry "honestly" said 
he didn't think of Voldemort before he thought of the dementors.  
To me, as a  puzzle hound, that's a clue, though I suppose they 
could both be oversights. 

It's kind of odd that all the supposed oversights and flints should 
point one way. I mean, we never get oversights that point to 
Lucius as a secret good guy, do we?

  I'd be inclined to wonder about the honorific "Lord", but alas, 
Dumbledore uses it (CoS ch 18). I think it's significant in itself 
that we yearn to have some simple means of sorting the sheep 
from the lambs, even though the characters who lived through 
the first Voldemort war tell us there was no such method. They 
couldn't tell who to trust, even among their closest friends.

Pippin