Why didn't DD reveal Voldemort's identity? Some Tigana spoilers

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 186924

Samajdar_parantap:

> 1.	If it is soo important for you (as some wizard in ww - not you the group members ) to know who lv really is, and if you hate soo much to be kept in the dark by a bearded man - why no go out and seek the information yourself rather than waiting for the same bearded guy to broadcast the info on television ? He put all the effort to research it - so those who haven't done so must wait till he choose to release the information.

Magpie:
That's a different issue. We were talking about why Dumbledore wouldn't want this information to be public. Not why any particular other wizard didn't research the information on his own as best he could. Perhaps many of them did. Maybe there's other wizards sitting on the information too for the same or different reasons. We know of at least one--Slughorn. And he's doing it out of cowardice. DD and Harry have to trick him to get into sharing information that's helpful to bringing LV down--and they do think that he *should* share the information for the greater good. 

But the thread was about Dumbledore, who has a stated goal of wanting to help the WW oppose Voldemort, not wizards that we never see who are complaining that Dumbledore isn't sharing information they don't know he is keeping from them anyway. 

samajdar_parantap:
 On one hand we blame him for not telling people all they need to know - on the other he is blamed for playing parental. Not fair. That's the kind of burden people try to force on intellect (As Ayn Rand pointed out in Atlas Shrugged).

Magpie:
Those are the same things. His not telling people what they need to know is a way of playing parental throughout canon. He decides who can handle what information--he blatantly does this a lot in the series. He never claims the attitude of "why should I have to help anybody with anything?" He seems to more think people should have a responsibility to each other.

samajdar_parantap 
> 2.	Even if you know LV IS Tom Riddle – that doesn't change the fact that LV is THE most powerful wizard present – even DD can only match him when he is at his best – not beat him. Nobody ever actually defeated him in a duel ( w/o help from elder wands or shared core wand or love magic etc ). Even if you laugh at him – that will be the last thing you do. 

Magpie:
So the last thing the Twins did was put up their You-Know-Poo signs? They were alive and well and running one of the only forms of resistance we saw in DH, which seemed to be doing a lot for morale. Laughing at LV doesn't have to mean laughing in his face when the two of you are alone in a dark alley. It's a normal part of resistance, usually. It helps people be brave.

samajdar_parantap:> 
> My first point may be a little subjective. Being a programmer, I always wander how/why people easily claim other people's brain property as their own, when they have neither paid for it nor given it the effort. Researching a historical info is no less a brain property I guess. Sorry if I am wrong legally.

Magpie:
Nobody's saying that anoyone owns everything (or anything, really) that's in DD's head. The question was about DD's character's motivation since he's already trying to bring LV down without pay. Hermione also does lots of research, only to share it with Harry and Ron, who could have done that research themselves. She might not do that on a homework assignment, but she wouldn't hold the same attitude about the war. (Not that the fact that Voldemort=Tom Riddle required any research on Dumbledore's part.)

-m