Dumbledore

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 190876


> > > 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?

Pippin:
DE's and ministry officials questioned the Weasleys and everyone who might know where Harry was. While  Harry believed that no Order member would voluntarily betray him, there's still legilimency,  veritaserum, the Imperius curse, torture and emotional blackmail. 

Dumbledore didn't use a tongue tying curse on Harry or put the information about the horcruxes under the Secret Keeper spell. Harry always had the option of passing as much information to others as he thought was safe. But Harry had learned by this time that he was a poor judge of whom to trust: Quirrell, Riddle, Scabbers, Fake!Moody, Marietta and   the Half-blood Prince  all caught him completely off guard. It's only when he found that Dumbledore betrayed him too (as he thought) that Harry realized the mistake he'd been making: unlike Dumbledore, he'd  trusted people he didn't really know. 

All the portraits were in on DD's plan, and some of them have images elsewhere, so there was a backup  even if Hogwarts was destroyed or Snape died before he could get his information to Harry. 

> Bookcrazzzy:

> 
> 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.

Pippin:
Good point. Tom seems to have changed his name in stages. At first, people were supposed to call him Lord Voldemort and not Tom Riddle. Then they were supposed to call him the Dark Lord and not Voldemort. 

 Sinister rumors were already spreading about "Lord Voldemort" when he returned, rumors which Voldemort was denouncing as lies. He wasn't yet openly identifying himself as a dark wizard. That didn't come until much later. By that time, perhaps, there really were few people who remembered Tom Riddle, and it wouldn't have meant anything for Dumbledore to use that name -- except to Tom himself. 

Moreover, pointing out that Lord Voldemort had once been Tom Riddle wouldn't have convinced anybody that the rumors about Lord Voldemort were true, since Riddle had had a sterling reputation when he disappeared.
 

Pippin