Nagini/basilisk/snake ramblings

[Badgers' Kin]

No: HPFGUIDX 280

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, heidi <heidi.h.tandy.c92 at a...> 
wrote:
> 

> 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.



It was late last night when I began this thread - I didn't really 
intend to say that dragons did, IN FACT, speak parseltongue, I was 
only pointing out that the way JKR seems to be using the term 
*basilisk*, as well as the muggle and mythological definitions of
that 
term, lead me to muse about the possibility that dragons MIGHT also 
speak/understand parseltongue.

I am not convinced that dragons speak parseltongue in JKR's world.  I 
am convinced that in other worlds, dragons are very wise and magical 
creatures and probably not only speak parseltongue, but are magically 
multilingual - on par with Barty Crouch, I would think, speaking all 
manner of tongues and dialects.


But since we *are* in JKR's world, there is no indication that
dragons 
 speak parseltongue.  It is clear, however, that both basilisks *and* 
snakes speak parseltongue in JKR's world.


Hail Hufflepuff!!
the Badgers' Kin