Learning Voldemort's Name

[amanitamuscaria1]

No: HPFGUIDX 111779

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jospehine" <J.Z.Dench at u...> 
wrote:
> "Deb" <DBoyken at a...> wrote:
>  So . . . most people flat-out refuse to use You-Know-Who's name. 
> He's obliquely referred to in speaking and in print--up until very 
> recently (Harry, the OotP, and then the DA), no-one but Dumbledore 
> uses the man's name.
> 
> How, then, have all of Harry's classmates LEARNED the name so that 
> they know to shudder, shake, fall off chairs when they hear it? I 
> mean, if you've heard your whole life about "Harry Potter and He 
Who 
> Must Not Be Named" and then you hear somebody say "Voldemort" . . . 
> how DO you know that that's the same person?? (grin)
> 
> Deb in NJ
> 
> Jospehine now:
> I think  this is a fun thread. There are many ways that the 
> name 'Voldemort' could be picked up as a child. Through reading 
about 
> him for example, or on the school playground. It's like swear words 
> when you are at school. Someone's parent lets the name slip once, 
(or 
> writes it down while explaining the story for learning purposes) 
and 
> the kid runs back to school telling all his friends what he's 
heard/ 
> learnt. They then get told off when they bring it up at home and 
come 
> to realise that it is a 'bad word' to say. It's not until later 
that 
> they realise what the word actually means and why it causes such 
> fear. Think of the first time you heard the * word. Did you know 
what 
> it meant? Nope, but I bet you knew you'd get in trouble for saying 
> it. And only learnt what it really meant as you grew up.
> 
<snip>
> Jospehine

AmanitaMuscaria now - What concerns me is that Hermione flinches and 
avoids saying 'Voldemort' as well. Where would she have learnt that 
it's not said?
Cheers. AmanitaMuscaria