Why didn't Dumbledore expose Tom after Myrtle's death? A reconsideration

[sunnyskywalker]

For several years (after gradually, reluctantly losing all faith I once had in Dumbledore), I’ve accepted that the most likely reason Dumbledore didn’t reveal Tom’s youthful crimes, expose him as a Parselmouth, and suggest that the monster was a basilisk after Myrtle’s death was that in doing so, he would implicate himself—for knowing what he did about Tom and not warning anyone earlier.

But on second thought, would anyone have found him culpable?( Read more... )