book six and book two

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> In message <BAY5-F20Y4kJSFsxf4y0000e7ae at h...>, Parker Brown 
> Nesbit <pbnesbit at m...> writes


> >In many cultures if you knew the true name of someone, you had 
power over
> >that person.  Remember in the tale 'Rumplestilskin' when the girl 
tells him
> >his name how angry he gets?
> >
> >In HP, folks are afraid to say Voldy's name, and most don't know 
that his
> >true name was (is) Tom Riddle.   Maybe since Harry knows his true 
name, he
> >will prove to have power over him in some way, such as naming him 
to the
> >Death Eaters.
> >
> >Just  a thought...



Catherine responed:
 
> It's a nice idea, but if you are suggesting that none of the DEs 
know 
> Voldemort's real name, I'm not sure that you are right.  I seem to 
> recall that we are told that he was already using "Voldemort" 
whilst at 
> Hogwarts, when with his closest friends - presumably some of these 
> friends went on to be Death Eaters, and would therefore remember 
that 
> Lord Voldemort used to be Tom Riddle.
> 
> I like the idea of the power of names, though.  Maybe in some way 
not 
> connected to the Death Eaters?
> 
> Unless they were memory charmed, of course  ;-)

Hi Parker and Catherine! Nice to see some new life in the list <g>.

I'm struck every time I read OoP and Dumbledore addresses Voldemort 
as "Tom".  It's such a short scene, but it's the first time in all 
of the books so far that we see Dumbledore face to face with Voldy.  
We know that Dumbledore is the only wizard Voldemort ever feared (as 
well as being his former teacher) so maybe there's some deeper 
significance to his refusal to call him anything but Tom.

Either that, or he's just trying to piss him off <g>.

Jo, hoping that Harry starts to call Voly "Tommy" to his ugly, 
snakeface.



> 
> Catherine, who would love to know how Voldemort managed to explain 
his 
> half blood status to a load of pure-blood fanatics AND get them to 
> follow him