Power of names and Tigana SPOILERS WAS : Re: DH reread CH 20

[pippin_999]

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> Alla:
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> Huh? I totally think as I said above that many purebloods would have left Voldemort if they knew that he was really Tom and it seems to me that you agree, right? Are you saying that Dumbledore thought that this reason is not NOBLE enough to not trust a person or something along these lines?

Pippin:
I am not saying Dumbledore is too noble to think of it. I am saying he would realize it wouldn't work -- of course he would not be above giving a noble reason, if somebody asked :)

 Look at it this way, suppose I am an official with a government, a government that has anti-Semitic tendencies which I have spent most of my life working against. I suspect  some fellow  named Madison of running a Ponzi scheme, and  I can't get anyone to believe me. Now in this very hypothetical case, I think  that a lot of his investors wouldn't care to do business with a Jew -- so what you are saying is, I should tell everyone that Madison's name used to be Madoff, right?

Wouldn't my political enemies use that as  ammunition? Wouldn't they claim that my actions show  that, hey, even I must agree  that being Jewish is a legitimate reason not to trust people?  

If anyone did avoid investing with Madison, not because he was a crook but because he was a Jew,  I'd have  helped  anti-Semites to profit from their anti-Semitism,   and at the same time I'd destroy  my own standing as a fighter against anti-Semitism. Maybe Madison's scheme would collapse a bit sooner than it would have anyway, but is that worth the harm I'd do by lending support to those who distrust Jews? 

And as Madison is a very plausible and conscienceless liar, he would surely convince many of his clients that I was making it up anyway, in which case I would have discredited myself for nothing. 

Pippin