Because Voldemort isn’t real, and Tom was tired of the game anyway when he learned he should probably focus on Harry. (If he died, and was inconvenienced the way Dumbledore thinks, how did someone consistently sabotage the Defense Professor? Though that’s weak evidence for a couple reasons.)
Dumbledore doesn’t realize that Voldemort is a mask, otherwise he’d be spamming this news everywhere. Even without understanding it, he gave Harry a big hint by faking the scene with the burnt chicken. He hoped Harry would think it through and arrive at the same conclusion. But Albus doesn’t want to say it explicitly because it would sound silly, and he already looks like a lunatic.
...I’ve never so much as heard the implication that Voldemort was actively sabotaging the Defense position so much as he cursed it once, and it is the curse that is continuing to do its work. Such speculation doesn’t appear to make sense to me now that I have heard it.
Linking the burnt chicken to the burnt husk of Voldemort’s supposed body, however...is not something that I’ve considered, and it actually makes some sense, though I do not say that with a high degree of certainty. Though, why wouldn’t he have spoken up by now?
Probably not. While Voldemort’s terrorist group was doing increasingly well, Dumbledore’s presence alone would be sufficient to prevent a complete victory, and the entire civil war was a distraction from Voldemort’s likely main concern, the muggles.
Why would he fake his own death, though? He was winning.
To make Harry Potter a worshiped celebrity.
Because Voldemort isn’t real, and Tom was tired of the game anyway when he learned he should probably focus on Harry. (If he died, and was inconvenienced the way Dumbledore thinks, how did someone consistently sabotage the Defense Professor? Though that’s weak evidence for a couple reasons.)
Dumbledore doesn’t realize that Voldemort is a mask, otherwise he’d be spamming this news everywhere. Even without understanding it, he gave Harry a big hint by faking the scene with the burnt chicken. He hoped Harry would think it through and arrive at the same conclusion. But Albus doesn’t want to say it explicitly because it would sound silly, and he already looks like a lunatic.
...I’ve never so much as heard the implication that Voldemort was actively sabotaging the Defense position so much as he cursed it once, and it is the curse that is continuing to do its work. Such speculation doesn’t appear to make sense to me now that I have heard it.
Linking the burnt chicken to the burnt husk of Voldemort’s supposed body, however...is not something that I’ve considered, and it actually makes some sense, though I do not say that with a high degree of certainty. Though, why wouldn’t he have spoken up by now?
Probably not. While Voldemort’s terrorist group was doing increasingly well, Dumbledore’s presence alone would be sufficient to prevent a complete victory, and the entire civil war was a distraction from Voldemort’s likely main concern, the muggles.