Dumbledore/LONG and bad, SKIP if you do not feel like reading it :-)

[nikkalmati]

No: HPFGUIDX 190944



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bart at ...> wrote:
>
> Alla:
> > Fact - or at least we have not seen anything to the contrary in canon, 
> > Dumbledore KNOWS that Tom Riddle is Lord Voldemort but does not tell 
> > anybody. I do not care that Tom Riddle had a perfect reputation before 
> > he dissappeared. Fact is voldemort is a magical mystery to everybody, 
> > somebody who is supposedly so unknown to WW that he cannot be 
> > defeated. Known evil is a lesser evil, thats just common sense to me 
> > and Dumbledore does not tell anybody that Tom Riddle is a pitiful 
> > human who has sociopathic tendencies, but not the mysterious creature, 
> > who undergone those transformations? 
> 
> Bart:
>      We have nothing in canon that says that Draco Malfoy ever slept, 
> either. What is there in canon that even hints that Dumbledore never 
> told anybody that Tom Riddle was Lord Voldemort?
> 
> Alla:
> > Fact: Dumbledore disregarded the wishes of Lily and James that in case 
> > of their death Harry would be brought up with Sirius and took him to 
> > Dursleys. 
> 
> Bart:
> For some reason I have this weird feeling that even the Dursleys were 
> superior to having Harry brought up in Azkaban. But I guess others might 
> think otherwise.
> 
>      Bart
>
Nikkalmati

What we have is a series of missteps by DD (Not evil, just wrong).  He did not investigate Sirius' case.  In the midst of mob rule he did not want to spend the political capital? Maybe he was so shocked that he was wrong about him that he did not try?  Anyway, he should have but he didn't.  No habeus corpus in the WW.  Remember Barty Couch was railroading all the DEs and DD was trying to save SS at that time.
  
He also should have kept tabs on Harry with the Dursleys, but again he did not.  He watched from the outside, but trusted Petunia to do a decent job.  Again a mistake by the wizard who thought he knew everything.

Maybe it would have made a difference if DD had exposed LV as Tom, but I doubt it.  The only thing that would have mattered is his half-blood status and Bella did not believe Harry when he told her. I think his other followers would have reacted the same way.

Nikkalmati