Ginny and the unicorn tapestry

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 187372

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

Carol:
> "The medium that must not be named" is a joke, yes. It's the way the way long-time list members refer to the films because this list is intended for discussion of the books (canon) and the movie list is for, er, the medium that must not be named. As I'm sure you figured out, yhat term (which I don't claim credit for--it was used here before I joined) is an allusion to or a play on "He Who Must Not Be Named" in the books. (I've always wondered whether JKR got it from Ryder Haggard's "She Who Must Be Obeyed" in the book "She," or maybe from a British sitcom that borrowed that epithet for the wife of one of the characters. Sorry that, not being British, I can't remember the name of the TV show.)

Geoff:
It came from John Mortimer's books which went on to be a TV series, 
"Rumpole of the Bailey".

I have to admit that I've never given thought to why Voldemort, as a character, 
received that "title". Perhaps in the same way that real world dictators were 
publicly referred to other than by their names - "Der Führer" or "Il Duce" for 
instance.