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

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 113441

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.

SSSusan:
Hee.  Good one!  Though I suspect if a headmaster calls, all castle 
ghosts report in?


Finwitch: 
> 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?)

SSSusan:
No, I'm not suggesting she should have volunteered this info.  I'm 
saying that DD is on record as saying they didn't know what was 
causing the attacks nor where the entrance to the chamber was 
located.  But I think if he had gone to Myrtle and asked her, he 
perhaps should have been able to piece together the information.

 
Finwitch:
> 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...

SSSusan:
No, she didn't know, but if she had described things as she did to 
H/R, then couldn't DD have figured it out, just as they did?  THAT'S 
really my point.  The clues they had back when it all happened were 
similar to the clues this time, weren't they?  H/R/H together figured 
it out, and they're 12!!  Couldn't Dippet and/or DD have figured it 
out, too, if Myrtle had talked about having been in her bathroom 
cubicle, hearing a "funny language", the appearance of yellow eyes, 
and finding herself instantly dead?


Finwitch:
> 3) maybe Dumbledore was shy about going into a girls' toilet? 

SSSusan:
See my comment, above.  I will never believe that THAT kind of 
propriety issue would ever stop DD from gaining information.  Simply 
calling Myrtle out would likely have sufficed.


SSSusan, who sure wishes someone would tackle her question of whether 
Parseltongue is required to make the SINK open *or* the serpent DOOR 
open *or* both....