Truth or Dare?

(c/o fabbricantidiuniversi.it)

I just watched the fourth part of the movie Harry Potter and like the previous chapters Harry confronted again lord Voldemort, who is also tagged as “he who must not be named, the dark lord, and you-know-who”. It interests me that they used these tags whenever they are mentioning him in the movie. Of course in this most recent chapter, the name lord Voldemort is almost always audible. Does that mean that they are now ready to confront him?

Calling someone by his (her) name is the proper way of addressing a person. Not only it is a basic respect but it is a way by which you will be able to state and achieve your purpose since you are sure you are addressing the right person and not somebody else.

If we want to see truth and be freed by it we have to confront it and never compromise. We name truth what it is because using a tag name is hiding the truth. I believe this is the greatest sin of the modern society. We cover up truth and coated it to make it something else. We agree knowing that “it is not what it really is” but we are too darn wicked to name it; we agreed by common understanding and yet we do nothing. 


The first step to confronting something is to settling what is that something. That something must have a name and that name should be spoken. I think the success of harry’s confronting “he who must not be named” in the movie, even of harry’s friends, is they never deny who he was and never afraid to speak about him. Truth when spoken and proclaimed is like “putting the lamp on a lamp stand where everybody can see and that its light extending through.

Whether it’s politics or a personal struggle, truth must be proclaimed.