Lucius and DD was Re: Snape and Lucius was James and Intent And Snape

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 187080

 
> Annemehr:
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> A couple of points here:
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> Actually, Dippet was headmaster when Myrtle died.  However, you are quite right that DD bears huge responsibility for Myrtle's death.  As we see in his Pensieve memories of the Gaunts, he is a Parselmouth and so would have been able to hear the Basilisk in the walls.

Pippin:
All we see is that DD understood what was being said in the Ogden and Morfin memories.  But Morfin could have told him that, since Dumbledore questioned him extensively. Morfin's memory was collected after the Riddle murders, which occured after Myrtle's death. There's no canon that Dumbledore could translate parseltongue on his own, or even recognize it out of context -- when it's coming from behind a wall instead of from a human mouth, for example.  


Dumbledore knew that Tom was a parselmouth, but how would you suggest that he prove it? Tom was far too clever to expose himself the way that Harry did. The incidents at the orphanage would not have convinced anyone. As Snape says, nobody cares  about kids doing wandless magic.

Hagrid let himself be blamed rather than expose Aragog. That was his choice. 

> Marion:
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> > Dumbledore employed dreadful, ineffective, dangereous teachers (a ghost for History, Quirrell, Barty Crouch, Hagrid, Trelawny.. the list goes on and on). 

Pippin:
Yup. But they are accomplished in their fields and knowledgeable about their subjects. Wizards can be  dangerous, dreadful, ineffective people despite their knowledge and power.  That's one lesson Dumbledore did want his students to learn. 

> Annemehr:
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> Given DD's friendship with Slughorn, I don't think that's quite accurate.  I don't see him indoctrinating anyone to think ambition is evil.  I do see him trying to amass a monopoly on power in the WW and then sitting on it.  He hoards nearly all the information there is to be known, and only releases just as much as he must to as few people as possible in order to bring down his only rival in power, LV.

Pippin:
Dumbledore hoarded information on horcruxes and Riddle's background. We've discussed the pros and cons of that. But he didn't prevent people from learning how to defend themselves from  magical attacks. Voldemort  did that, by hexing the DADA professorship. 

Pippin