English or Hissing? (WAS: Spiders, Snake, Sarcasm, Sound, Size)

[erisedstraeh2002]

-C- (kesa101) wrote:

> What will be really interesting is to hear how Harry speaks to the 
> snake.  Will we hear English? Or hissing!?

Now me:

I've also been wondering about this.  In the first movie (and the 
first book), when Harry talks to the snake at the zoo, there's no 
reference to hissing.  In CoS the book, the voice Harry hears through 
the walls is speaking English.  It's only once he finds out that he's 
a Parselmouth that there's any reference to hissing.  So I'm guessing 
English with a hissing accent, but only after the duelling club scene!

-C- (kesa101) wrote:
  
> ~Phyllis
> who should probably *not* watch these movies!
 
> - C - who gently pats Phyllis on the shoulder w/a "there there!" No 
> movie will ever be as good as the movie you have in your mind! :)

Me again:

Well put!  JKR doesn't tend to use a lot of descriptors, so I think 
there is probably a wide range of highly individual perceptions of 
what the characters look and act like.  So the movie makers can't 
possibly please everyone!

~Phyllis