[HPforGrownups] Re: harry and parseltongue

[mlacats at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 32246

In a message dated 12/18/2001 7:28:53 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
blpurdom at yahoo.com writes:


> 
> Harry DID understand Tom Riddle when he spoke Parseltongue to open 
> the Chamber where the basilisk was.  Riddle's speech was described 
> as "hissing," but to Harry's mind it also clearly sounds like 
> Riddle's saying, "Open."
> 

And Harry also understood the basilisk through the walls of Hogwarts when he 
was going through the pipes before Harry knew who or what it was.  I don't 
think Harry has to be facing the snake to understand it.

harriet


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