[HPforGrownups] Re: Dumbledore

[Margaret Fenney]

No: HPFGUIDX 190875

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 12:37 PM, zanooda2 <zanooda2 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> **
>
>  In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Joey Smiley" <happyjoeysmiley at ...>
> wrote:
>
> > Yeah, he could have certainly shared it with McGonagall, > Snape and even
> Moody.
>
> > zanooda:
>
> > He couldn't trust them with this secret because in this case secrecy was
> the key to success. If LV found out that DD knew about the horcruxes and was
> looking for them, he could have taken them
>
> from their hiding places and re-hidden them in some random places where it
> would be impossible to find them. This is especially true in Snape's case -
> what if LV managed to break through his mental > defenses after all?
>
> Bookcrazzzy:

Yes, secrecy was the key to success and in such cases, every person who
knows adds to the risk not only for themselves but for whomever they trust
enough to tell.  It is why DD wouldn't even look at Harry and avoided him
like the plague while Snape taught him Occlumency - DD was afraid that LV,
through the link to Harry, would glimpse that DD knew about the horcruxes.


>
> > Joey wrote:
>
> > And why in the world didn't he *tell* Harry that the sword > of
> Gryffindor will help him out?
>
> zanooda:
>
> I think he wanted to *show* Harry how to use the sword on the locket, after
> their return form the cave :-). It just didn't work out the way he thought
> it would...
>
>  __._,_.
>
Bookcrazzzy:

Two answers:  Like zanooda said, he died before he finished telling Harry
all that he wanted to tell him.  Second, he did leave Harry the sward in his
will and HRH knew that all of his bequests for them had some use in their
quest.

I would also like to comment on the earlier statement that DD should have
let the WW know that LV was Tom Riddle.  When Riddle is asking for a job, he
wants DD to call him by his new name and DD says "You'll always be Tom
Riddle to me."  At that time, he still had the form of Tom Riddle but was
calling himself LV.  So DD could not, by any means, have been the only
person in the WW or even the only person of the non-DEs in the WW, to know
that LV was Tom Riddle.

Bookcrazzzy


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