OOP: Dumbledore and lying

[rowena_grunnionffitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 63380

   The Father of my Country is popularly said never to have told a 
lie. However this apparently justified reputation for general honesty 
didn't keep him from concocting some marvelous masterpieces of 
misinformation for enemy consumption during the Revolution. That was 
different.

   The same principle applies to Dumbledore. As he tells Harry at the 
end of Philosopher's Stone, he will not lie to his friends and 
followers - though he might not tell them everything he knows. 
However he clearly feels no such constraint when dealing with 
enemies, especially those who have been using lies and deception as 
weapons against him, nor should he.

"rowena_grunnionffitch"