Hark! Are those the first harbingers of Chapter Three I spy on the horizon?

[robkelk]

First: Doug hears the name "Voldemort," and immediately assumes it's a nom-de-guerre (against the world), rather than perhaps being the heritage from a pretentious ancestor, to which the present Voldemort decided to live down. Granted, he's right in this case, but he never seems to have even considered the other option.

Consider what "vol de morte" means in French - why would an ancestor, no matter how pretentious, have taken the name "death of flight"?

("Against the world" is "contre le monde", "face au monde", or "contre tous", depending on how figurative one is being...)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012