Who calls Voldemort "Lord"

[darqali]

No: HPFGUIDX 149618

> David:
> I thought I recalled reading that only deatheaters called Voldemort 
> LORD Voldemort.  Is that true?  Because I thought Dumbledore did it 
> once or twice.
> 
> Tiffany:
> You're on the right track, but wrong name. The death eaters call 
> Voldemort "The Dark Lord" which makes me wonder what was up with 
> Rita Skeeter. Was she being controlled by Voldemort in GOF or what? 
> But you're right. Dumbledore, Harry, Sirius, Lupin, and Hermione 
> after the fifth year, are, I believe, the only five people who use 
> Voldemort's name.


"darqali":
Dumbledore told Harry, most people of the WW do not know, or do not 
remember, the name of Tom Riddle.  They know the name "Lord 
Voldemort" {which Tom Riddle fashioned for himself},  but fear to 
speak it.

This ties into ancient magic, the power of names.  Remember the issue 
of Rumplestilskin {sp?}, who made an evil bargain, but who could be 
banished just by speaking his true name?  In many tales, characters 
are called many names, titles, or nick-names,  but their "real name" 
is hidden from most and known only to a few, if any.  In many myths, 
and in "fairy stories"  {from which the modern Fantasy Fiction tale 
descends}  to be able to give the "true name" to someone is to have 
power or  control over them.  Names themselves may also be powerful; 
to speak them is to give them power over you  ....

Dumbledore never feared to speak the name LV had chosen name for 
himself, and to his face, Dumbledore constantly used his actual, true 
given name, "Tom" or "Tom Riddle".  This was a clear indication of 
Dumbledore's power as a wizard and lack of fear.  Others in the 
Wizarding World generally were unaware that Voldemort was properly 
named Tom Riddle, and they showed their fear {and lack of power} by 
fearing to speak LV's *chosen* name, saying "He Who Must Not Be 
Named" instead.  His followers termed LV  "The Dark Lord".

I noted that Trelawney was an exception  in the {supposedly} "good" 
Wizarding camp, in that when she made her two "prophecies" concerning 
LV, she used the term "The Dark Lord"  {his *followers* term} and 
nothing else.  This is very curious, if she is not a LV follower, or 
a Death Eater, or a sympathizer.

No one commented, and I wonder why.  I note again, Trelawney's name 
is Cornish in origin, and Cornish figures are often "evil" in English 
tales.  Are we overlooking a clue?  If Trelawney is on the "good" 
side, why does she use the Death Eater's term for LV?  Her only other 
word for LV is "his Master", refering to Peter Pettigrew's "Master" 
in her second prophecy, made to Harry in Prisoner of Azkaban.

Rita Skeeter is another case ... but who considers her "on the side 
of good"?  She is an "Out For Herself" person who knows no boundries 
in getting what she wants, no matter the cost to others, which was  
considerable in the examples we were shown.  I am baffled that 
Hermione's solution to putting an end to Rita's abuses of her 
witches, wizards, and magical fellows drew such negative response 
from some, for Rita deserved to be "swatted" for the pest she is!  If 
Hermione has squashed her while in beetle form, that would have been 
over the top, but fitting and deserved for the abuses Rita heaped on 
others {such as Harry, Hagrid and Hermionie herself}.  As for the 
poor dear being unemployed for a year, goodness, why couldn't she 
simply have lived as a beetle, if being unemployed as a writer was so 
terrible and she had no other skill?  Insects get along *fine* 
without "jobs" of any kind!  Peter managed in rat form for *12 Years*!