Sayning 'Voldemort' (was Plugging my theory)

[davewitley]

Naama wrote:

> > > BTW - on what do you base the notion that Voldemort takes 
power 
> > from people's fear of him? From the name taboo? 
> > > 
> > 
> > Neri:
> > This is a very vague notion, but it is suggested by both Bella 
and 
> > Snape that the connection between Voldy and the DEs has 
something 
> >to do with not pronouncing his name. 
> 
> But the entire WW (almost) don't say his name. That should give 
him a 
> huge boost, no? And yet, until Pettigrew came to help him, he was 
> helpless. It also doesn't sit well with DD saying that fearing a 
name 
> makes you even more fearful of the thing <terrible paraphrase>, 
which 
> puts the emphasis on psychology, not magic.

It's my belief that in a future book (for the statisticians among 
you, my Bayesian probability of that book being HPB is about 60%) we 
will learn that:

1) Saying the name 'Voldemort' does have some impact over and above 
the psychological;

2) The conditions under which saying it makes a difference are 
fairly narrow (and magical) so that, for the most part, Dumbledore's 
encouragement to people to say it in normal conversation is 
justified;

3) Hermione, in her macho eagerness to show she is prepared to 
say 'Voldemort' at every available opportunity, will inadvertently 
fulfil those conditions, and so cause trouble for Harry and the 
Order.  There will have been an attempt to warn her, which she will 
have ignored or derided as superstition.

David