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Why Didn’t Dumbledore Just KILL Voldemort? - Harry Potter Theory
Topics Covered / Questions Answered: Why didn’t Dumbledore kill Voldemort? Could Dumbledore have killed Tom Riddle before he became Voldemort? Did Dumbledore know Tom Riddle would become evil? Why did Dumbledore allow Voldemort to live? Could Dumbledore have prevented the First and Second Wizarding Wars? Was Dumbledore powerful enough to defeat Voldemort? Why didn’t Dumbledore kill Voldemort during their Ministry duel? Did Voldemort’s Horcruxes make killing him pointless? What was Dumbledore’s actual plan for defeating Voldemort? Why did Harry have to be the one to defeat Voldemort? Did Dumbledore’s morals stop him from killing? Was Dumble...
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and gave him a magical education. Because you see, Dumbledore, despite a few signs
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so much death and destruction. I mean, how could he? But the exchange does make me wonder,
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Did you know, sir, then? Did I know that I had just met the most dangerous dark wizard of all time? No. These were the words exchanged by Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore after taking a glance into the pensive and observing Dumbledore's first encounter with a young Tom Riddle. And it's these words that clarify why Dumbledore saved Tom, invited him to Hogwarts,
and gave him a magical education. Because you see, Dumbledore, despite a few signs here and there, could never have known that this young troubled boy would go on to cause so much death and destruction. I mean, how could he? But the exchange does make me wonder, what would have happened if Dumbledore had known what young Tom Riddle's true capabilities
were? What if he knew just how many lives he'd claim, and how much destruction he'd cause? Would things have been different? Would he have attended Hogwarts? Just how different with the magical world of bin, had Dumbledore obtained that singular, albeit massive, piece of information? Today we're going to be answering all of that and more,
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