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Originally Posted by Tog_
Are you sure? It seemed to be pretty common knowledge that Voldemort was a bad name to say, even to small children, but it didn't seem to bother Ginny at all to write messages to Tom Riddle in the diary. Of course, I may be remembering things incorrectly. I just don't recall anyone flinching at the name of Tom Riddle, which it seems they should have done if it was well known.
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Ginny was eleven and didn't talk to anyone about it. There are plenty of eleven-year-olds who couldn't tell you Mussolini's first name, and he didn't change it, or name who was Emperor of Japan during WWII. Voldemort was before her time by a solid year. Admittedly, it's not as distant as WWII, but Voldemort's last use of the name pretty much was. How many people know Lenin's real name, or Stalin's? Heck, even while he was alive, how many people knew John Wayne's?