DH reread CH 20

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 186767

---  "hagrid_hut" <hagrid_hut at ...> wrote:
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> > Alla:
> <SNIP>
> >> 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?
> >
> > So I am wondering isn't this moment sort of negates that earlier symbolism?
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> > ... <SNIP>
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> Hagrid_Hut:
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> 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, ...--the cunningness of the move to track his own name shows that Voldemort is not a person to be trifled with, as Ron suggests.
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> I don't think that not saying the name means that Harry is afraid of Voldemort now.  ...
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> Also, now there is an actual reason for not saying Voldemorts name, whereas before the practice was based on mass hysteria.  ...
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bboyminn:

I'm going to reiterate what I have already said. I really don't
think 'Fear of the name increases fear of the thing' is negated
by the later events.

Harry DOESN'T fear Voldemort's name. He doesn't allow the
mystic of the name to increase his fear of Voldemort. But at
the same time, for the most part, he is wise enough not to 
speak the name when it now has very real consequences. 

Harry doesn't fear the name; he fears the very real consequences.

But the statement by Dumbledore still holds true, by not fearing
the name, you do not build a false mystic around a person and
the name. But, as I've already said, it would be foolish in the
extreme to speak the name knowing that very real consequences
are now attached to it.

Dumbledore's statement is as true as ever, but the circumstances
have changed.

Steve/bboyminn