Why didn't Dumbledore listen to Steve?

[Talisman]

No: HPFGUIDX 131961

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "quigonginger" 
<quigonginger at y...> wrote:
>>>Snip text of "Why Didn't Dumbledore Listen to Steve" (thereby 
investigating Riddle Manor for proof of Harry's GoF experience.)<

In a soft whirl of cloaks, Talisman lands briefly, behind enemy 
lines, with a dispatch of critical literary-compass coordinates:

Ah, Ginger, you--and the diligently laboring  Steve--have grasped 
the wrong end of the game plan.

Dumbledore has known that  Voldemort would eventually require Riddle 
Manor, not to mention his father's bones--for a very long time. 

That's why the old dear put the muggle-repelling charm on the 
residence, after Riddle AK'ed Pater & Co.

That's why he purchased the manor (no doubt for a song, after it had 
been dumped back on the market a number of times in short 
succession) and retained the falsely accused Frank Bryce as 
groundskeeper (à la Hagrid).

That's why he was watching Little Hangleton for signs of Voldemort's 
return, that lovely summer after Harry's third year.  After all, 
he'd essentially dispatched Wormtail to fetch the bad boy home.  

 If he had wanted to bust Voldemort, he could have posted a hit 
squad in the bushes as a welcome home surprise for the scheming pupa.

But this would not conform to Dumbledore's plan, which fully entails 
Harry`s experiences in both GoF and OoP.  Timing is everything, and 
Dumbledore had no wish that Voldemort be widely revealed until after 
the events leading up to, and occurring in, the D.O.M., not the 
least of which was Sirius's death. 

Up to that time, Voldemort's desire to keep a low profile went a 
long way toward limiting his choices and conforming his behavior to 
Dumbledore's ends.  Among other benefits, this would have been 
negated by any official investigation corroborating Harry's story.

Yes, the reasons Dumbledore didn't ask for an investigation of 
Riddle Manor are identical to the reasons he didn't bust Riddle for 
releasing the Basilisk.  They are one with the reasons he watched, 
sans intervention, as Riddle transformed himself into The Dark 
Lord.  They are of a piece with the reasons Dumbledore did not try 
to kill Voldemort in the Atrium.  

Voldemort is part of Dumbledore's plan.

Let the howling begin. (Hermione will be joining you, soon.)

Talisman,
Agent Provocateur, and HPfGU's expatriate, on Spec Ops duty for The 
Fellowship of the D.U.S.T. (Dumbledore Undercover Surveillance Team).