DH reread CH 20

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 186735

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:
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> > lizzyben:
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> > But was it ever an irrational superstition?
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> Pippin:
> Yes, I think so. Canon makes a point of telling us that Lupin has no idea how the DE's could have found Harry in Tottenham Court Road. He says "Voldemort" in his conversation with Harry at Grimmauld Place. Clearly he doesn't know about the taboo as yet. This seems to be a power that Voldemort didn't have until the Ministry takeover.
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> Lizzyben:
> > But it sort of begs the question - if DD knew that "Lord Voldemort" was really just plain old Tom Riddle, why wouldn't he make that fact known? Why wouldn't he encourage others to use that name, as DD did, instead of the grandiose name Riddle had created? Is it so that DD doesn't fear Voldemort, but everyone else does? To me, it's sort of like as if Harry said something about that jerk Snape, and DD gently insisted that Harry call Snape by his proper name: "The Half-Blood Prince!" 
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> Pippin:
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> Voldemort wasn't trying to scare people out of saying "Tom."  But I think Dumbledore didn't want to make an issue of Riddle's bloodline. There were some people who wouldn't have trusted Voldemort if they'd known he was once Tom Riddle -- but Dumbledore did not think that would be a good reason not to trust someone. 
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> Pippin
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Montavilla47:

No, but hypocrisy is.  If Lord Voldemort is actually the half-blood Tom 
Riddle, then his pureblood philosophy is pretty much nonsense.  I'm sure
he could spin it so that Tom, Sr. looked like the aggressor and Merope as
a victim, if he wanted to villify Muggles.  But it would still make him 
look ridiculous and divide his support base.

I find it unclear how the purebloods feel about half-bloods.  Harry, who
is technically a half-blood (since Lily is Muggleborn), seems to think 
that the Death Eaters would find him nearly as objectionable as a 
Muggleborn.  Hermione says that they would need to accept half-
bloods, since the purest wizards aren't numerous enough to take
over.  

But it seems weird to me that there would be a stigma against
Muggles and Muggleborns *and* blood traitors (those who 
side with Muggles, Muggleborns, or worse yet, marry them), and
*not* against their offspring.