Dumbledore Does Lie (Re: What turned Snape)

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 159100


> Abergoat writes:
> 
> But we've already seen that a pensieve gives more than the viewer
> originally knew about (JKR has verified this) and what is Legilimency
> but using the mind as a pensieve in place? Dumbledore could not say
> with complete certainty that no one else had the prophecy unless he
> had done something to the room. Snape has had a pensieve in his
> possession, Dumbledore must know that even if Snape had extracted his
> own memory he couldn't put an ear to the door and hear what Trelawney
> was saying.

Finwitch:

Indeed. But somehow his wording made me wonder. He said that those who
know the full contents are standing *in this spidery shed*... Granted,
this is interpreted as Harry&Dumbledore - question is, was there
someone else there as well -- disguised as a spider/invisible -- to
Dumbledore's knowledge, but not Harry's -- one more to know the entire
prophecy. And if, then who? Aberforth? Snape?

You know, Dumbledore does go on his way to use words literally -- so
that he can speak words of truth to conceal as well as to reveal. I
think that's what he means with 'treating truth with great caution.'
Even when he sacrifised himself, his wording - how he pointed out that
it said in the paper that the group was called Dumbledore's Army. Not
Potter's Army. This was, in itself, true - of course, to Fudge this
*implies* something non-true (which Dumbledore wants him to think, of
course), but that's yet another matter.

We all know how Albus Dumbledore can be - see his idea of *a few
words* - I think he greatly enjoys playing with words like that. 

Finwitch