Dumbledore the parselmouth?

[steven1965aaa]

No: HPFGUIDX 151151

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at ...> wrote:
A word about DD's methods with Kreacher; I am sure that, while milk 
and cookies would never work with Kreacher, DD did not use an 
unforgivable on him.  DD probably only had to threaten to burn Mrs. 
Black's portrait to get anything he wanted from Kreacher.  No 
unforgivable there.

Steven 1965aaa:

Maybe, maybe not.  (by the way, and please correct me if I'm wrong, I 
think what Moody said in the classroom in GOF that its an automatic 
sentence in Azkaban to use an unforgivable on another Human).  He also 
wouldn't have had to use crucio, there would be other spells of less 
severity which might be considered less than "saintly" to use.  The 
only point I'm trying to make is that I don't think DD has to be a 
saint in order to be good.