Why didn't DD reveal Voldemort's identity?

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Pippin:
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> I have yet to understand why DD should sacrifice potential informants for the sake of publicizing information which he already knows that Voldemort can counter, and which in some ways might even be helpful to Voldemort. 

Alla:

Well, I must admit that if Dumbledore had this reason, it seems compelling enough for me. Not that I see any way for Voldemort to **counter** this information of course, I still think that revealing it will be extremely useful, to show that Voldemort is not that all powerful creature, but Tom Riddle.

Neither do I see how revealing this information will be helpful to Voldemort, quite the contrary.

However, I agree that it will be very Tom like to just kill off everybody who may remember him as Riddle and IF Dumbledore had a purpose of getting information out of these people he may have worried that they will be dead before he gets to them.

After all, Potters were dead before Dumbledore got to them.

Hm, as an aside I suddenly decided (or maybe not so suddenly, maybe I wrote about it, just don't remember) that Potters' death may have been a trauma for Dumbledore which adding to Ariana's not added much good for his psycho.

JMO,

Alla