Dumbledore's intentional misleading (Re: A Question of Which Book)

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 144952

bianca wrote:

> Anyone have any more examples of Dumbledore's intentional 
> misleading?

zgirnius:
Aside from the whole Snape/prophecy issues, I wonder about Dumbledore 
and Harry's conversation in the Cave in HBP. Harry is clearly very 
reluctant to go through with the plan to feed the Potion to Dumbledore 
because he believes it is a poison. Dumbledore assures him it would not 
kill him immediately, and then goes on to talk about what Voldemort 
would or would not want to happen to the one who discovered the Cave. 
He never says it is NOT a poision, but Harry appears to be reassured on 
that point. But I rather suspect that it was a poison, and Dumbledore 
knew it.