"...the Dark Lord" said the Death Eater

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No: HPFGUIDX 137919

colebiancardi:

> I also was interested when Harry asked Snape that
> question  "Why do you call Voldemort the Dark Lord,
> I've only heard Death Eaters call
> him that ---"  in OotP, p 593 Am Ed Hardcover
[...]
> calling him Voldemort is perhaps
> dangerous for him - perhaps there is a connection or 
> something with the DE's & LV when they utter his name.
> Or that that this is for Snape to *stay* in his role
> as a Death Eater.  To start calling him Voldemort would
> be an *insult* to Voldy if he found out that his DE
> was on such familar terms with him and the other DE's
> would wonder why Snape is now referring to him by his name,
> when only DD & Harry do that.  I think it is the last one -
> Snape has to stay in his *role* as a Death Eater - otherwise, 
> he might slip & reveal his true loyalities -which I still believe is
> with DD and the Order.

houyhnhnm:

Snape success as an occlumens seems to be based in large part on not
allowing memories or feelings that would contradict the lie to be
created in the first place.  He doesn't stay to eat with other members
of the order.  He addresses Dumbledore as "headmaster", and so forth.
 Calling LV "Voldemort" would create a memory of doing so and also a
memory of the feeling that would accompany saying it--defiance.  Only
those who are not afraid of Voldmort and ready to defy him call him
"Voldemort".