Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-25396609-20191207154319/@comment-4010415-20191210172639

AntisocialMedia wrote:

1. Has this in fact been said? Because she seems to be pretty much omniscient, at least where the past and present are concerned.

2. or she can't be saved, since that would then have been a plausible answer to have given Ozma. 1. Yes. In Uncovered, Ozpin says "The lamp cannot tell of events that have yet to happen, and it will only ever answer three questions every one hundred years."

He has no reason to lie about that. He only lied about the three questions having already been used up.

2. But Ozma didn't ask how to save Salem, stop Salem, remove her immortality, etc. He asked how to destroy her, and Jinn's answer was "You can't."

That's what Granaatti meant by "Even if Jinn wasn't using the classic genie word trickery". Ozma only asked how he can destroy Salem, so Jinn only answered the specific question she was asked, without providing additional information that technically doesn't pertain to the specific question of "How do I destroy Salem?" She keyed in on "destroy" and possibly even "I".

If Ozma had asked "How can Salem be stopped?", he very likely would have gotten a completely different answer.