Why Was He Who Must Not Be Named...?

Half the critiques I see on this board are obviously coming from movie speedwatchers desperately trying to manufacture their own "gotcha" moment for no reason at all.

This one is easy to spot because the premise doesn't actually exist here.

In the literal last year of his return, fucking retard. It 100% wasn't the reason people refrained from using his name decades prior.

>He is tracking people using this trick during the first conflict
>There is a directive to never use his name, or you die and reveal your position
>No one uses his name and replace his name with catchy phrase
>This phrase catches up

Kek.

In the early books they're just trying to make him seem more spoopy (also his name is kind of silly and I guess Rowling was just trying to see if readers would mind it), but in the later books Rowling evolves the concept to make it that the name system actually works out for Voldemort because he rules by fear and would prefer that people are too scared to invoke his name directly, and how deadnaming him is the noblest thing to do.

What's a speedwatcher?

sneedwatcher

In the extended Literature J.K. Rowling explains that "Voldemort" is also a wizarding slur, sort of like Nigger. His name in the wizard's tongue means "he who does not like niggers". It is not that they CANNOT say the N-word, but rather it is the word that must not be named or you will lose goblin money.

She goes on to explain the goblins basically funded all of this happening so they could get more wizard money from both sides. The International Goblinry is actually the real enemy, as she explains it.

He wanted his return kept secret until he was ready to start open hostilities again, Harry escaping almost fucked that up but Malfoy was able to save the plan by convincing the minister that Harry and Dumbledore were lying as a power-grab. When they did start fighting openly he conquered the country in a couple of months and set up the taboo.

what are you saying, the premise of the trace doesn't exist?
>The Taboo (incantation unknown) was a powerful jinx which designated a word as a key to revealing the speaker's location. This spell was used during the Second Wizarding War. During the said war, saying Voldemort's name was made Taboo and therefore used as a means of capturing members of the Order of the Phoenix, whom the Death Eaters believed to be the only ones who dared to speak it.[1]