[HPforGrownups] "Fanged Servant"

[kelly broughton]

No: HPFGUIDX 40873

Keep in mind... they say this (jokingly, of course)
long before anyone, including HRH, understand that the
creature is a basilisk. Although it is common
knowledge at this point that Harry is a parseltongue,
I still fail to see why the Heir of Slytherin's
'servant' would automatically be assumed to be a
snake. If that was the common assumption, then why
didn't anyone clue in earlier that the creature
turning the students into stone was in fact a
basilisk?

It just doesn't "jibe".

-kel

--- heidit at netbox.com wrote:
> As many snakes have fangs for injecting poison into
> their victims, and as the Heir of Slytherin is
> presumed to be a parsletongue as Salazar was a
> parsletongue, by saying "fanged servent" in
> connection with "heir of slytherin", the twins are
> merely reminding everyone of the rumors in a jokey
> way.
> 
> 
> From: kelly broughton <kellybroughton at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [HPforGrownups] "Fanged Servant"
> Real-To:  kelly broughton <kellybroughton at yahoo.com>
> 
> I am currently rereading HPatCoS (US version, 1999).
> On page 210, the Weasley twins are providing comic
> relief and acting as Harry's bodyguards at Hogwarts.
> There is a line on this page that just now caught my
> eye:
> 
> "Yeah, he's off to the Chamber of Secrets for a cup
> of
> tea with his fanged servant," said George,
> chortling.
> 
> 'Fanged servant'? Do the twins know something?
> 
> A Flint?
> 
> -kel
> 


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