CoS chapters 17-18 post DH look

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 181342

Bex wrote:
> > But DD doesn't even know about the diary, much less how it acted,
until after he prompts Harry (above). This might also be a
Legilimens!DD moment, too - Harry is wondering how to explain how 
Ginny was opening the Chamber under Diary!Tom's control without
getting her into trouble. DD gives him this opening.
> 
zgirnius rsponded:
> Not legilimency in this case, in my opinion. If you look at Alla's 
posts from the earlier chapters, she quotes Dumbledore as saying he
knows who has opened the chamber, just not how. 
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/181168
> 
> I always took that to mean he believed Voldemort was behind it.
>
Carol addds:

Right. He knows that Tom Riddle opened the Chamber before and that
he's the Heir of Slytherin and must therefore be behind these new
attacks. But since Voldemort has been revaporized and is known to be
in Albania, he doesn't know *how* he's opened the Chamber. Perhaps he
suspects a Horcrux connection, and almost certainly he suspects that
Ginny was involved in the attacks.

But Dumbledore also sees Harry's hesitation and, Legilimency or not,
provides the opportunity for him to speak about Ginny without getting
her into trouble. He wants information, certainly, but in this
instance, he also shows tact. I personally don't think he needed
Legilimency here, merely psychological astuteness.

Carol, who should probably recheck the scene but is trying to save
that rare commodity, time