Random HP thought...
Sep. 16th, 2005 06:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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.
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.
