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Originally Posted by Gillianren
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?
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But, of course, nobody makes a big deal that it's exceedingly dangerous to speak Stalin's
name. If people did, I think the fact that he changed his name (and what he changed it from) would be more widely discussed.