DH reread CH 20

[hagrid_hut]

No: HPFGUIDX 186723

> Alla:
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>> I mean, isn't it sort of a symbolic moment when Dumbledore tells Harry to say Voldemort and gives him that famous line about fear of the name only increasing fear of the person?
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> So I am wondering isn't this moment sort of negates that earlier symbolism?
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> The reason I feel that way is because now anybody who is going to say the name will basically be sort of suicidal, no? I mean, of course I am not saying that it is BAD to try and escape trace, but now the symbolic standing up to the tyrant is sort of not possible, unless you are an idiot?
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> Does it make sense? <SNIP>

Hagrid_Hut:

In regards to your first quote, I don't agree that it ruins the symbolism  of Dumbledore's advice.  If anything, it reminds us that Dumbledore is no longer there to even give Harry advice, and perhaps he didn't have it all figured out.  But besides this, it seems to up the antee(?)--the cunningness of the move to track his own name shows that Voldemort is not a person to be trifled with, as Ron suggests.

I don't think that not saying the name means that Harry is afraid of Voldemort now.  If there was a point in the advice that DD gave it was that a name is just a name; one could be afraid the thing itself and not the name, but if one is afraid of the name then they must be afraid of the thing.

Also, now there is an actual reasong for not saying Voldemorts name, whereas before the practice was based on mass hysteria.  It is Percy in the first book who tells Harry that DD usually gives a reason for following rules--now there's a reason.