Chamber of Horcruxes

[Eddie]

No: HPFGUIDX 161333

> Shelley:
> None of the previous Headmasters could find it in part because they
couldn't 
> "speak" the opening password in Parceltongue. Even if they had a
clue of 
> where it was, they had no way to open it to prove it. I don't even
think 
> Dumbledore could speak Parceltongue, or at least I don't see any
reference 
> in the Books that he could, so I don't think he could have searched the 
> chamber without Harry's help.

Eddie:
Good point.

I'd like to point out, however, when Dumbledore and Harry visited the
Gaunts in the pensieve they (the Gaunts) were speaking Parseltongue
and Dumbledore appeared to understand them.  He doesn't say so
directly, but circumstantially.

Dumbledore asked Harry something like, "YOU can understand them, can't
you?", which comes right after Bob Ogden shows that he can't
understand them.  Later, Dumbledore spoke to Harry about what they had
seen without  any indication that he hadn't understood everything that
was said.

Like I said, this is circumstantial.  Also, it's possible that
Dumbledore can understand snake language without being able to
reproduce it himself (not Parseltongue, but Parsel-eared?).

Anyway, this is off on a 3rd degree tangent.

Eddie