Isn't his real name Tom Riddle?(was Precious little to celebrate)

[kiricat4001]

No: HPFGUIDX 128823

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "huntergreen_3" <patientx3 at a...> 
wrote:
> I was reading through SS for the first time in awhile, and something 
> struck me. Its mentioned twice that the Voldemort times lasted 
eleven 
> years. [first was in the above quote, and second when he says "for 
> eleven years I have been trying to persuade people to call him by 
his 
> proper name: /Voldemort/."]ted in a looong time).

Marianne:

I've also started re-reading the whole series in preparation for HBP, 
and this is exactly one of the questions that occurred to me.  
Everyone is scared to death of saying Voldemort, which I think lends 
too much power to him in everyone's mind.  Why, then, didn't DD or the 
Order or the Ministry simply start calling him Tom Riddle?  It's 
rather a pleasant name, and not at all scary.  Did they really go 
through the entire 11 years not knowing his real identity?  

Marianne