DD: an appreciation (Was Re: Snape, A Murderer?)

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No: HPFGUIDX 95570

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at y...> wrote:

> Okay. I feel myself pushed into a corner here. I concede that *if*
> that were the only option, he probably would use an Unforgiveable. But
> I doubt that anything of the sort will happen. Dumbledore probably has
> a number of abilities that we haven't yet seen demonstrated, and I
> can't imagine him forced to use Voldemort's weapons. He's the only one
> that Voldemort ever feared, and there's probably very good reason for
> the fear. DD doesn't have to resort to evil means to win a battle.
> 

I  was being sneaky and enticing you into committing youself before
I quoted the extract below, because there's a possibility he already has. 

GoF chap.37

"He did not wish to tell me," said  Dumbledore. "But I am a sufficiently 
accomplished Legilimens myself to know when I am being lied to and 
I - persuaded him - to tell me the full story, before I left for the 
Department of Mysteries."

The bracketing of  a phrase with dashes, as above, is a generally accepted
convention for the use of a euphemism, a bland phrase that replaces
something not very pleasant or downright nasty. Is JKR following common
prctice?

Now all we have to do is determine just what sort of 'persuasion' DD used
when rushing to rescue Harry. 

Kneasy