TT altering DD's memory. Ouch again!

[northsouth17]

No: HPFGUIDX 124226


> > Northsouth:
> > It annoys me that he was so cryptic though. Couldn't he have 
> > saved some, uh, more time and just said "Rescue Buckbeak, fly
> > to the windows, rescue Sirius?" 

> bboyminn:
> What we have here is a case of 'plausible deniability'. 
> 
> In other words, if questioned after the fact, Dumbledore can deny 
> that he told Harry and Hermione to do anything, and claim that he 
> was completely unaware of their indended actions, and did nothing 
> to encourage those actions.
> 
> For example, if questioned in court, Dumbledore can claim that his
> statement that 'what we need is more time' was just a general lament
> that there wasn't more time to investigate what happened.


More of DD eternal-truthfullness-with-strategic-omissions I suppose? 
I'm beginning to wonder if there isn't some method to his particular 
brand of honesty. I'm thinking that picking up a lie via Legilemency 
or Veritaserum might be much easier than spottting a careful 
omission. Dumbledore always speaks so cryptically so that should he 
ever be questioned about anything, he can somehow twist his words in 
such a way that he never has to really *lie*? That puts DD in much 
better light, IMO, than refusing to speak lies, but instead speaking  
riddled and incomplete truth on grounds of pure ethics. 

That's my theory, and I'm sticking to it until...well, morning, 
anyway. 

Northsouth