Nagini/basilisk/snake ramblings

[anglinsbees at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 248

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "badgers' kin" <dorband at u...> wrote:

> We have no indication yet that the basilisks of the dragon variety 
> speak parseltongue.  Does it seem reasonable to suggest that it 
takes 
> so many highly trained wizards to control the dragons (in GoF)
> because 
> they're not communicating very well - in fact NO ONE in the wizard 
> world communicates very well with the dragons, because the *dragons 
> speak parseltongue*! 

I get the feeling, from the descriptions of the figurines picked out 
of the sack before the !st challenge in GOF that Rowlings Dragons are 
much more Lizard- like than serpent like- thus they wouldn't speak 
parsltongue.

I would think that dragons, if they turn out to be more than just 
really mean animals, would have their own unique language- which may 
be shared with lizards.

(Anyone remember the old short sotory from one of the Alfred 
Hitchcock anthologies about a scientist creating a dragon by 
repairing the defects in the heart of a baby alligator?)

On Good snakes- I was hoping, when Sirius sent a tropical Bird with 
Harry's message, that we were going to find out that Sirius was 
recovering in Brazil, and Had met up with Harry's friendly Boa from 
the zoo somehow. (Don't ask me how, since as far as we know Sirius 
does not speak Parseltongue.)

I'd really like to think that that snake made it home, curled up snug 
inside the walls of a fancy cruise ship, snacking on tasty rats and 
mice well fattened by the gourmet kitchen.

Ellen the Beekeeper