Timeline for Why Didn't Dumbledore Hear the Basilisk?
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| Aug 20, 2015 at 18:33 | history | edited | DVK-on-Ahch-To | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 11, 2014 at 22:10 | comment | added | N Unnikrishnan | The Wikia states that Dumbledore had learned to understand Parseltongue but could not speak it, and the reference given there is an interview with JKR. | |
| Jan 16, 2013 at 3:11 | comment | added | balanced mama | Actually, the name Dumbledore refers to bees and the fact that Rowling always imagined Dumbledore wandering the castle halls humming. I'm sorry I completely forget where I read this, (It may have been the scholastic Reader's Club discussion guide), but the point is that Rowling herself says he wandered the Castle. Point 2 still stands, however. | |
| Oct 3, 2012 at 1:20 | comment | added | Slytherincess | Regarding whether or not he understands Parseltongue, I just can't imagine that he doesn't. In Deathly Hallows, chapter 10, The House of Gaunt (as Hendrik Vogt notes), Dumbledore seems perfectly able to understand Morphin and Marvolo Gaunt when they speak in Parseltongue, just as he is able to understand and speak to Merchieftainess Murcus in Goblet of Fire, chapter 26, The Second Task. :) | |
| Oct 3, 2012 at 1:06 | comment | added | Slytherincess | I won't claim that he gallivants, but he gets out of his office. For example, in OOTP, he describes walking the halls "with an exceptionally full bladder" and finding a room with nothing but chamber pots (Room of Requirement). He places the Invisibility Cloak in Gryffindor Tower for Harry. He eats at the high table. He attends Quidditch matches. Outside of Hogwarts he visits the Ministry, The Three Broomsticks, the Burrow, No. 4 Privet Drive, Hagrid's house, to name a few. He also goes Horcrux hunting. I think he's relatively active. | |
| Apr 23, 2012 at 4:24 | comment | added | dlanod | I just want to emphasise this bit: "[Harry] hangs out near the girl's bathroom (aka Basilisk Station) a lot." | |
| Apr 23, 2012 at 3:21 | history | edited | Gabe Willard | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 23, 2012 at 3:08 | history | answered | DVK-on-Ahch-To | CC BY-SA 3.0 |