Saving Ginny (was Re: Lockhart's incompetence)

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 143281

Jaimee wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/143253 :

<< Also, in HBP, when DD is showing Harry memories of Riddle, and 
he shows the ministry member, Bob Ogden (I think) going to the
Gaunt's, Harry is puzzled when Ogden does not understand Morfin, then
Dumbledore says, but you understand him, don't you Harry? (paraphrase,
but its something along those lines), and Harry realizes that he is
speaking parseltongue. What's odd to me, is that Dumbledore seems as
if he too must understand the conversation, or wouldn't he need to ask
Harry what Morfin is saying? And, if he does understand it, wouldn't
it seem likely that he too would have heard the basilisk in CoS? >>

I can fantasize that Dumbledore drank a potion that gave him a
temporary ability to understand Parseltongue in order to understand
what Morfin was saying.