[HPforGrownups] Re: Why didn't DD reveal Voldemort's identity?

[No Limberger]

No: HPFGUIDX 186849

>Carol wrote:
>And worse, publicizing Voldemort's true identity might arouse
>Voldemort's suspicions that Dumbledore was investigating his
>past. Where the Horcruxes were at that point, we don't know.
>Apparently, he didn't hide them until he'd heard the Prophecy,
>but DD had no way of knowing that. Dumbledore didn't know how
>many Horcruxes Tom had made; he might still have thought that
>there was only one though I don't think so because he knew that
>both the cup and the locket had been stolen. He didn't know
>about the diary or the diadem, and Nagini wasn't a Horcrux yet
>(if LV even knew about her at that time).

No.Limberger responds:
Exactly.

>Carol wrote:
>It seems inconceivable that DD has not told at least the
>Wizengamot and the high Ministry officials (e.g., Fudge) who
>Voldemort really is, but Fudge still calls him You Know Who.
>Surely DD has told McGonagall and the other Order members
>that Voldemort was once Tom Riddle, but they also say You
>Know Who (with the exception of Snape, who for reasons of his
>own says the Dark Lord). In other words, knowing who Tom Riddle
>was (without knowing about his early murders, which DD can't
>prove and also can't speak of without risking that LV will find
>out about his investigations) has no effect whatever on the
>WW at large, which is concerned with what LV was in VW1
>and what he will become if he returns to power.

No.Limberger responds:
I tend to believe that Voldemort must have placed some kind
of curse upon anyone who spoke his name before he lost
his powers.  Maybe it was something similar to what was
done in DH, or it could have been something else.  The fact
that he was able to conjure such a curse showed just how
powerful Voldemort was and only made everyone that much
more fearful of him.

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