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

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 190950

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nikkalmati" <puduhepa98 at ...> wrote:

Nikkalmati
> 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.

Geoff:
Not necessarily. Not every Death Eater was as obsessed in the same way 
as Bellatrix. She was with him besotted and nothing which was said against 
him could be believed in her view. It is likely that some knew and were 
prepared to overlook this fact because it gave them entry to power, both 
physical and political.

I seem to recall many years ago that someone pointed out that for the sake 
of power, many Nazis were prepared to accept the fact that Hitler was a 
"halfbood" in terms of his Aryan policies.