He who must not be named by a specific name...

Geoff geoffbannister123 at btinternet.com
Sun Aug 7 22:09:48 UTC 2011


No: HPFGUIDX 191155



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bart at ...> wrote:

Bart:
I still can't figure out why Harry & crew in the book didn't simply 
> call him "Tom", "Riddle", or, my own personal favorite, "Morty" while 
> the taboo was in effect.

Geoff:
I don't think even Harry regularly referred to him by any of these 
names until he used his real name during the last duel. I have a 
feeling  that only Dumbledore used his given name in the timescale 
of the books.

And isn't Morty an invention of these groups? Correct me if I'm 
wrong please.





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