Random HP thought...

[conuly]

We all know that it's A Big Deal to call Voldie by his name - and that an even bigger deal is to call him by his birthname.

So is it at all significant that many people don't refer to Harry by name? I mean, do they really have to waste ink and paper saying The Boy Who Lived, when everybody in the world knows who he is? And now it's the Chosen One, I know.

It'd be really great if this was just some odd wizarding custom or superstition that people shouldn't be called by name. So we'd have everybody running around saying "Hey! You Git! Give this to the One Who Turned and tell him that Old Lemon Drop has turned him down for the position again, in favor of Mad-Eye (hey, his name already works!) under the Muggle Lover's recommendation!"

It'd be great. Ooooh, or maybe they could talk like this:

"Did you hear what You-Know-Who did with You-Know-Who-Else when Whats-His-Name told him that Lord Thingy was out to get him?"

That would be *so cool*.

But, alas, it seems restricted to Harry and Voldy. And maybe Moody... does he count?

In other news, I have acne. This isn't a recent problem, but whenever it pops up again, certain people (hi Jenn!) do tend to bring it up. Lately, everything everybody says to me gets pushed into a song, so now I'm humming "I'm breaking out! I want the world to know, let the pimples show!" over and over and over again. I'm driving me batty.

Comments

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

I hate that "Chosen One" crap. That's Buffy's turf, dammit! ;)

[conuly]

Hear, hear.

[ex-chaos-by-699.livejournal.com]

The whole neither Harry nor Voldie being called by their names might be another example of JKR liking to draw parallels between them. She seems to like to do that.

[conuly]

Yes, yes, yes - but can we have an in-book explanation? Harry doesn't know he has a narrator, after all :)

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

"Harry" isn't a tough enough sounding name?

[conuly]

No, it's really not. It's so frightfully common, too :)

[rho]

And you can't really anagram it to anything cool either. Unless you think that "rest home jar party" is a cool pseudonym.

[conuly]

Well... yeah.

Damn. I had a fic link for you, and now I don't think I bookmarked it. And it was *funny*.

[shila]

I'd have so much fun if the real world was like that. *g*

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

I hate that "Chosen One" crap. That's Buffy's turf, dammit! ;)

[conuly]

Hear, hear.

[ex-chaos-by-699.livejournal.com]

The whole neither Harry nor Voldie being called by their names might be another example of JKR liking to draw parallels between them. She seems to like to do that.

[conuly]

Yes, yes, yes - but can we have an in-book explanation? Harry doesn't know he has a narrator, after all :)

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

"Harry" isn't a tough enough sounding name?

[conuly]

No, it's really not. It's so frightfully common, too :)

[rho]

And you can't really anagram it to anything cool either. Unless you think that "rest home jar party" is a cool pseudonym.

[conuly]

Well... yeah.

Damn. I had a fic link for you, and now I don't think I bookmarked it. And it was *funny*.

[shila]

I'd have so much fun if the real world was like that. *g*