Chamber of Horcruxes

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 161370

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

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> So I think you're right that he's
> intelligent enough to figure out more or less what Morfin is saying
> from the context, from his behavior, and from Bob Ogden's 
reactions.
> Or he understands enough to be getting on with, to borrow his own
> expression, even if he doesn't understand the specics. One other
> possibility, and I'm waiting to hear everyone jump on this idea as
> unlikely, is that he can perform Legilimency on memories and read
> Memory!Morfin's thoughts. 

zanooda:

Is it possible that Morfin could tell DD about his encounter with 
Teen!Riddle when DD found him in Azkaban? The entire Riddle/Morfin 
conversation was in Parseltongue ("A Sluggish memory"), but DD seems 
to know what was said. 

We know that Riddle put some kind of memory charm on Morfin, making 
him forget that he saw Riddle that night and talked to him. Riddle 
also implanted a false memory in Morfin's mind, making him believe 
that it was him who killed the Riddles. DD says that "it took a 
great deal of skilled Legilimency" to coax the real memory out of 
Morfin. 

I just thought it was possible that when DD used Legilimency on 
Morfin and found the true memory, he lifted the memory charm and 
Morfin remembered Teen!Riddle and their whole conversation. Then he 
could recount it to DD in English.

It's not the most plausible explanation, but it's still a 
possibility, IMO.