Dumbledore in CoS was Re: The Keeper of the Keys.

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 113413


> 
> SSSusan:
> 
> Granted, he might still have had difficulty opening the chamber [is 
> the parseltongue required to open the SINK entrance or the serpent 
> DOOR down below?], but it's apparently the case that DD never even 
> asked Myrtle.

Finwitch:

Well, it could be that:

1) Myrtle was off haunting Olive Hornby and thus not available for
questioning.

2)It is possible that Dumbledore *did* ask (and that is why he was the
only one to believe Rubeus Hagrid!) but Harry's pov doesn't show it...
(I don't see Myrtle volunteering information about someone else asking
about her death 50 years ago. Why would she do that?)

Anyway, Myrtle might just been Moaning at Dumbledore for not caring
for her better etc. instead of providing information - Harry otoh, a
*student* in the school 50 years after the fact, and inquiring about
her? First student to propose care for her after 50 years! Poor little
Myrtle loved that!

Also, Myrtle didn't KNOW what got her, so she wouldn't have been of
much help to Dumbledore - except confirming that it wasn't spider nor
Rubeus Hagrid...

3) maybe Dumbledore was shy about going into a girls' toilet? With
that trouble about finding a restroom, I must wonder... how can the
headmaster of Hogwarts not know where the toilets are, after all that
time he's been at the school?

4)And, the rest of them got the believable misinformation from Tom Riddle.

Finwitch