Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
My dear Professor, surely a sensible persone like yourself can call him by his name? All this ‘You-Know-Who’ nonsense—for eleven years I have been trying to persuade people to call him by his proper name: Voldemort.” Professor McGonagall flinched, but Dumbledore, who was unsticking two lemon drops, seemed not to notice
Eleven pages in to the first book of the series Rowling had already established the name that many readers around the world have known so well as something to represent evil and darkness. She did a great job with this by having McGonagall flinch and she also did well to show that Dumbledore was someone who could be looked up to because he was not afraid of the person that everyone else seemed to be afraid of. This also created one of the characteristics of her books. Throughout the whole series the topic of being afraid of saying Voldemort was always discussed.
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