Dumbledore and Voldemort's past (was: Alice and Frank/Legilimens and Memories)

[pippin_999]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "eloise_herisson"
<eloiseherisson at a...> wrote:

> it still seems strange to me if he didn't start investigting what 
really happened until so much later. Yes, he was dealing with 
Grindelwald, but there was an object lesson. Did he not realise
that  another Grindelwald was daily sitting beneath his nose in 
class?

Pippin:
Since we know nothing at all about Grindelwald apart from the name and
when he was defeated, that seems like kind of a leap. Presumably, even
in the wizarding world most  people, even ones with instincts for 
cruelty, secrecy and domination, don't become evil overlords.

They don't even have to become murderers.  Morfin had those instincts
too, so on that basis he was just as likely to have killed the
Riddles as Tom was. But he never went beyond killing snakes.

Pippin