Does DD understand parseltongue? (was: Saving Ginny (was Re: Lockhart's incompetence))

[mercurybluesmng]

No: HPFGUIDX 143357

Jaimee :
> > ...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? 

Catlady:
> 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.


MercuryBlue:
I think there is something more likely.  When Dumbledore went to get the memory from Morfin, he also got a translation.