Why Saying Voldemort’s Name Is Forbidden In The Wizarding World

Through the magic of the internet, a fan over on r/HarryPotter may have poked a wand hole in Voldemort’s Taboo incantation that Harry and his friends in the Order of the Phoenix may have been too busy to notice. «Why didn’t the Order use the fact that Voldemort’s name was Taboo to THEIR advantage?» asked u/masark4417. «Like they could’ve had some powerful Order wizards with their wands at the ready and said ‘Voldemort’ and baited Death Eaters and Snatchers into Apparating near them and killed them before they even realized what the f*** was going on.»

It was a question that other Potter fans had also thought about over the years, with u/Crazy_Cauliflower_74 adding, «I never understood why they didn’t just call him Tom [Riddle, Voldemort’s birth name], would have avoided the Taboo and p***** him off at the same time.» With that said, one Reddit fan was quick to argue the point, saying that time was of the essence with this spell, and it took some time for our heroes to figure out what was going on. «I suppose the Taboo was supposed to be a secret and the Order figured it quite late (remember Lupin didn’t know how the Death Eaters tracked Harry in London),» they wrote. «By the time they figured it out, the Order was — to put it in Aberforth’s words — done’ while the Death Eaters had the entire ministry.» Of course, by the end of it all, there wasn’t much to Voldemort’s name, or Voldemort at all. Good job, Harry.