There is one other point to consider, If Gandalf did know, but didn't do anything it was, in a certain sense a rather cruel thing to do to Frodo. The events in the shire were in some ways, a final "stab" metaphorically at frodo, showing hin that nowhere, not even in the home he loved could he escape further tragedy and sorrow. I am sure that, to the end of his days, Frodo, gentle soul that he was, felt that what had happeded in the shire was more or less wholly his own fault, not so much because he left (hew would have realized that, had he stayed the whole world would have been lost) but becase he would feel that, had he not dallied for pleasant things (Aragon's coronation, his wedding to Arwen, seein bilbo, etc.) He might have made it to the shire before Saruman even got there, and stopped him before he did damage. Frod may have well though that the blood of the hoobist who had died was on his hands, not Gandalf's. And I am sure that though the majority of the hobbits agreed that Frodo had put thing as right as he could, a few less charitable souls undobtedly still beilved that Frodo was to blame. I can only reconcile this with the fact that Frodo is meant to be a true tragic hero and as a true tragic hero and pleasure, no matter how small must come at a cost so great as to make the pleasure seem too cotsly.
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