death to capslock

Another little piece just popped out at me.

I theorized in "I Would Sell Out the Nation" that the explicit, and to wizards mortally-terrifying, crime inherent in becoming a DE was swearing oneself to the revocation of Secrecy - the worst and most heretically-inflected form of treason possible in the WW. All but unthinkable to any sane or decent witch or wizard, and very rarely spoken of directly. And that it was the Ministry's and then the public's discovery of this fact about Voldemort's organization, right when he seemed to be poised for a takeover, that prompted Crouch's Unforgivables policy.

Might that same discovery by the Ministry also explain another curious little mystery we never got a satisfying answer for?

Exactly how, when, and why did Voldemort make himself unmentionable? The first time around - before he got control of the Ministry and its various tracking apparatuses in DH.

Um.

Perhaps we should be asking: DID he? By some unknown direct and deliberate action of his own, that is? One that we just happen to never have had described for us in its mechanism or effects...

Or is this another clue?

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