[HPforGrownups] Re: Nagini/basilisk/snake ramblings

[heidi]

No: HPFGUIDX 277



DsSweetestAngel at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 8/26/00 10:58:02 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
> brooksar at indy.net writes:
>
> << Then why didn't Harry catch a hint of them screaming  "YOU !! STAY
>  WAY FROM MY EGGS"?
>   >>
> I'm not quite sure about this theory but if you think about it, every time,
> well almost, the thing was obviously a snake and that screamed at his
> parseltounge instict of what they were saying, maybe faced with a dragon
> which in harry's mind isn't a snake he fought the instict to inturpet

I'm now wondering, if they speak parseltongue, then Harry should've also been
able to understand Norbert - unless that gets explained by saying that Norbert
was so young he hadn't learned to talk yet.