![]() ![]() This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This name is itself a riddle concealed by another name, one which is also hidden since most fear to pronounce it and, like so many other words and objects in the books, is itself a riddle: Voldemort may mean, in a play on French, “flight-from-death” or perhaps, from German, “will-to-death.” There are even more possible meanings. 1 Then there is the villain named Tom Riddle. Dumbledore, too, it turns out, has secrets in his life: “He learned secrecy,” as his brother, Aberforth, accuses, “at our mother’s knee” (7:28, 562). The importance of riddles and secrets is hinted in chapter titles such as “The Very Secret Diary,” “Hermione’s Secret,” “The Riddle House,” and “The Secret Riddle.” There is the Unknowable Room and the Chamber of Secrets. In fact, all around in the books there are secret worlds readers at first miss the signs of. The very language of the books is filled with codes, puns, and puzzles. There are coded instructions hidden corridors and rooms unseen doorways and houses secret passwords and passageways and dreams, visions, and runes to decipher. Magical objects, magical creatures, things that happen, and tasks that are undertaken are all filled with significance beyond what meets the eye. ![]() The world of Harry Potter is a world of riddles and secrets, which is to say, one of hidden and then discovered meanings. ![]()
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