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

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 143371

> Goddlefrood:
> 
> You may well be right. Being a person who understands multiple 
> languages (French, Fijian, Rotuman, German and Italian) without 
> actually speaking them I add that it is possible that while 
> Dumbledore can understand Parseltongue it does not mean that he 
> necessarily speaks it.
> 
> If I recall correctly he asks Harry whether he can understand what 
> the Gaunts are talking about and at the time the implication I 
took 
> from that was that Dumbledore himself did not actually fully 
> understand the exchanges in parseltongue, but he may have 
understood 
> certain parts.
> 

a_svirn:

On the other hand if one brandish a wand and a bloody knife while 
hissing malevolently it is not really all that difficult to get the 
massage one tries to convey. "You are not welcome" would be a polite 
version of it.