Why didn't DD reveal Voldemort's identity?

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 186891

> Magpie:
> And why does Riddle want to leave his past behind? Because it helps him to be Voldemort. So why's it obviously a bad thing to make that difficult? He's already terrorizing everyone. We know Voldemort doesn't want to be ordinary. He doesn't want anyone to think of him as ordinary or human. That might make them feel less helpless.


Alla:

Oh yes.


> Magpie:
> I'm sure Dumbledore himself made up plenty of doomsday scenarios and "logical" reasons to keep secrets and lie. We know he did that. Maybe some of them sounded like these. But his plans always lead to the same place: giving himself more knowledge than others, keeping people in the dark, often about their own lives. I think it would *kill* Dumbledore to have the whole WW walking around knowing who Tom Riddle was. That behavior's already canon. This situation doesn't need to be the one time Dumbledore really would have shared the information and think people had the right to know the truth if only there wasn't this potential danger to somebody somewhere that forced him to keep his mouth shut (if we only imagine one). It's really not even in character to think that way. <SNIP>

Alla:

Oh yes, I think you nailed Dumbledore canon based reasoning, it is not like I can SEE Dumbledore worrying for people's lives in canon. I am however saying that at least this inference is reasonable and understandable to me, you know? It is not like I need to imagine Voldemort killing people left and right for any reasons he can come up with and the reason being to stop people from talking seems as good as nay to me.

But of course Dumbledore LURVES keeping secrets, always did. 

I am just thinking that purely utilitarian purpose of getting information for the purpose of maybe keeping more secrets makes at least some sort of sense to me.

JMO,
Alla