Dumbledore and Secrecy WAS:Re: The Statute of Secrecy

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 159162

 
> Hickengruendler:
But I can also the 
> Dumbledore's reasonong and why he did it in this case, which is more 
> than I can say about him secret about Tom's true identity. (As far as 
> this one is a secret. At least Slughorn knows). Of course this also 
> means, that Dumbledore probably isn't quite as trusting, as Harry 
> made him out to be in HBP. ;-)

Pippin:

In the first place, making an issue of Voldemort's lies about his
race would make race itself an issue, and Dumbledore is fighting
against that. 

Also, anti-Muggle prejudice is far more  prevalent in the WW than 
out and out Voldemortism. IMO the number of people who would 
be turned away from Voldemortism by this knowledge would
be far offset by the number who would think worse of halfbloods
for knowing that Voldemort is one of them. Dumbledore wouldn't
want to encourage that either.

In any case,  that vanishingly small group of people who actually 
trust Voldemort would  be sure that Dumbledore was 
lying. Everyone else already knows that Voldemort is a liar.

Pippin