"Headmaster Dumbledore, what I saw in the Pensieve back then..." Vizet recalled the memory from not long ago. "During Voldemort's last two years at Hogwarts, he didn't carry out any dangerous activities."
"You're not wrong..." Dumbledore nodded slightly. "For Hogwarts, those were two rather peaceful years."
Vizet continued asking, "Headmaster Dumbledore, do very few people know that his real name was Tom Riddle?"
"To look for clues about the Horcruxes recently, I visited quite a few students from those days." Dumbledore's gaze deepened. "They truly don't remember that person anymore..."
"When I mentioned the name Tom Riddle, their first reaction was always to ask me blankly, 'Who is Tom Riddle'..."
"Whether it was what Tom Riddle once looked like, or the achievements he earned at Hogwarts, these things that truly existed all seem to have been erased by someone."
"So that's how it is!" Vizet let out a soft breath. "It's the same principle as him destroying the Gaunt family's house and rebuilding Riddle House."
"That relatively ordinary past was something he could not tolerate, so he needed people to forget Tom Riddle as much as possible..."
"This was an essential step. He needed to make himself into an awe-inspiring existence, into the one 'whose name could not even be mentioned.'"
"Vizet, your analysis is quite right!" Dumbledore affirmed. "At the time, I didn't realize that point, and allowed him to complete the obscuring of the name 'Tom Riddle.'"
"That is why we must say Voldemort's name directly... In this way, to some extent, we can also weaken the influence his Path of Magic and soul research have on us."
"It's just a pity that explaining it clearly is quite a complicated matter... Very few people can analyze and understand these things as easily as you."
"But no matter. I