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

[No Limberger]

No: HPFGUIDX 186948

>Carol wrote:
>Dumbledore kept quiet about that for two reasons, IMO. First, by the
>time he got the Ministry to look at Morfin's memory, proving Morfin's
>innocence, Morfin was dead (the same thing happened later with Hokey).
>With the sole witness dead, he couldn't prove that Tom was guilty.
>Apparently, the memory alone wouldn't hold up in a court of Wizarding
>law. And, second, he didn't want Voldemort to find out too soon that he,
>DD, was investigating his past and remove all the traces.

No.Limberger responds:
I agree with your reasoning.

>Carol wrote:
>But by the beginning of the first Voldie War, he certainly knew more
>than that Voldemort was Tom Riddle from Hogwarts (who had, not
>incidentally, murdered Moaning Myrtle and framed Hagrid). He knew
>about the murder of Tom Riddle and his parents in Little Hangleton,
>and he must have known about the Gaunts as well. He obtained
>memories from Morfin and presumably from Bob Ogden before Morfin
>died in prison. He would have begun investigating the murder of Hepzibah
>Smith and obtained the information from Hokey (who was very old and
>must not have lasted long in prison) soon after the murder. The memory
>from Caractacus Burke, which relates to Merope and the locket, would
>have been obtained at about the same time.

>IOW, Dumbledore must have been investigating Voldemort's past for
>years before Godric's Hollow and probably long before the DADA
>interview. ("You call what you have been doing 'great', then?"). And the
>DADA interview would have alerted him to Riddle's changed appearance,
>a hint that he was making Horcruxes out of those stolen objects. He
>already knew, through Aberforth, that Riddle was calling himself Voldemort
>and gathering followers called Death Eaters. I think DD had been
>gathering memories and information for a long time before Voldemort first
>started terrorizing the WW (which he didn't even start doing for twelve
>years or so after the DADA interview).

No.Limberger responds:
I completely agree.  Dumbledore clearly had very good reason
to investigate Riddle/LV knowing that Riddle had murdered Moaning Myrtle
at Hogwarts and framed Hagrid.  This occurred years before the DADA
interview.

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