Dumbledore's Unspeakable Word

[pippin_999]

The Goat:
> But is Jo/Dumbledore really trying to maintain any suspense here or
> withhold any information? Isn't it obvious that the word is, umm,
> *love*? 
<snip>
> Hence, eliding both the V-word and the L-word give both of them more
> power, more textual *presence* than if they were voiced normally.
> 
> Or am I just being obtuse?

Pippin:
I've been thinking about this for a while but never posted on it...
Voldemort is trying to obtain various divine powers for himself,
llike immortality and omnipotence. An unmentionable name, like 
the name of God in the Hebrew scripture, might be one of these.

Dumbledore wants it spoken to deny him this power --which 
leads me to the question, how *do* words become magical? 

But as far as the Power behind the door, JKR said, without naming it,
that we all knew what it was. 

Albert Hall appearance:
---
Harry is not a good enough wizard yet to even attempt to take on 
Voldemort as wizard to wizard. He's escaped him three, four times
 if you count the encounter with Tom Riddle. He keeps doing it 
because there is one thing that Voldemort doesn't understand 
and that's the power that keeps Harry going. And we all know 
what that power is.
---
Dumbledore and JKR  are perhaps too reverent to name it.

Pippin