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

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 95607

>snipping Carol's post<

Kneasy wrote: 
> snip<
> 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. 
> 


Potioncat:
In GoF when DD, MM,and SS rush in to save Harry from Crouch!Moody, 
Harry is almost frightened by DD's expression.  And at that point 
Harry can understand why he is a feared wizard. (I wish I could 
quote it, but cannot get to the books.)
While the quote Kneasy is using does indeed look like a euphemism, 
I'm sure DD could come up with lots of non-unforgivable ways to make 
a house-elf talk, but which he might still prefer to leave unspoken.

Potioncat: who hopes it was OK to jump into this excellent 
discussion.