The House of Gaunt

[steven1965aaa]

No: HPFGUIDX 151062

"Peggy Wilkins" <enlil65 at ...> wrote:
>
 This shouldn't be surprising, given all
 the obscure languages Dumbledore understands.  As for how he
 understands it, well, how does he know anything that he knows?  He
 seems to know a lot.  He even speaks Mermish (cf. GOF second task). 
 How does he know Mermish?

Steven1965aaa:

I don't really think this implies anything about DD, certainly not 
that he's evil or anything.  But its different from Mermish because I 
remember reading somewhere (help please) that Riddle and HP were 
probably the only 2 parselmouths who passes through Hogwarts in many 
many years.  I would guess that mermish would be more readily learned 
because of the presence of mempeople,