"Headmaster Dumbledore, when I was inside the Pensieve..." Wizet recalled the memory from not long ago. "During Voldemort's final two years at Hogwarts, he did not engage in any dangerous activities."
"You are correct..." Dumbledore nodded gently. "For Hogwarts, those were two remarkably peaceful years."
Wizet continued, "Headmaster Dumbledore, did very few people know that his real name was Tom Riddle?"
"Recently, while searching for clues about the Horcruxes, I visited quite a few students from that time." Dumbledore's gaze deepened. "They truly do not remember that person..."
"When I mentioned the name Tom Riddle, their first reaction was to ask me blankly, 'Who is Tom Riddle?'..."
"Both what Tom Riddle once looked like and the achievements he attained at Hogwarts—things that genuinely happened—seem as though they have been erased."
"So that was it!" Wizet let out a soft breath. "It was the same reason he destroyed the Gaunt family home and rebuilt it as Riddle House."
"That relatively ordinary past was something he could not tolerate, so he needed people to forget Tom Riddle as thoroughly as possible..."
"This was a crucial step. He needed to turn himself into someone people feared, into the one whose name could not be spoken."
"Wizet, your analysis is correct!" Dumbledore affirmed. "At the time, I failed to realize this and allowed him to conceal the name 'Tom Riddle.'"
"That is why we must speak Voldemort's name aloud... In this way, we can also, to a certain extent, weaken the influence of his magical path and his soul research over us."
"Unfortunately, explaining it clearly is quite complicated... Few people can analyze these matters as easily as you do."
"But it is all right. I think that, much like the road before us, all this will soon pass..." He raised his eyes toward