A Dark Glamour - Voldemort's Appeal - DDs Complicity

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 179265

> a_svirn:
> As for not telling anybody about the Horcruxes, it's just ridiculous.
> McGonagall and the DA were in a very good position to hunt down the
> Rowenclaw heirloom. They could talk to the ghost at the beginning of a
> school year – it was an obvious move, much used in preDH fanfics. It
> is somewhat incredulous that neither Dumbledore, nor Harry or Hermione
> had thought of that earlier. But maybe SOMEONE in the Resistance group
> would have put two and two together. Instead of breaking into Snape's
> office the DA activists would have investigated the Ravenclaw Horcrux.
> Voldemort wouldn't even know about it and the Battle of Hogwarts would
> have been unnecessary. Just to give one example. 

Montavilla47:
It gets even worse when you consider that Dumbledore was hunting
those Horcuxes for years.  He told Harry that he thought one of them
would be either a Ravenclaw or a Gryffindor object (and then ruled
out the sword himself, leaving only the Ravenclaw object.)

So.... Dumbledore never thought to ask Flitwick about the diadem?
Never thought to ask the Grey Lady, who has been floating around
Hogwarts for a thousand years?  Or to ask the ghosts or the portraits
what they remembered about Tom Riddle?

Then again, had he done so, we'd have spent the whole of DH 
yelling at Harry to remember that tiara in HBP.