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

[ceridwennight]

No: HPFGUIDX 137958

> colebiancardi:
*(snip)*
> > 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...*(snip)*
> 
> 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...*(snip)*
>  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".

Ceridwen:
In this odd state Voldemort's in, with his soul in potentially four 
(or more?) different places, spread thin, a superb Legilimens, yadda-
yadda, I've often wondered if invoking his name is thought to invoke 
his ear in a conversation, even when he's miles away.  Maybe for a 
good reason, maybe because of superstition (and calling him 'You-Know-
Who' and other epithets smacks of a bit of superstition to me), but 
that's something I've been thinking for some time.  I don't have OotP 
in front of me, but I think that at one point (during Occlumency 
lessons?) when Harry calls him Voldemort in front of Snape, he 
notices Snape absently rubbing his left forearm where he bears the 
Mark.  Maybe for Death Eaters, there <i>is</i> a connection when the 
name is mentioned?  Or, maybe for Harry, who is in some way connected 
to him anyway?

Ceridwen.