Serpents and Parseltongue

[i_am_erasmas]

No: HPFGUIDX 46866

"Julie Stahlhut" <julie.k.stahlhut at a...> wrote:
> Could there be other good Parselmouths besides Harry?  And, 
> will we see wizards who can speak other animal languages, for 
> good and/or evil?

I think it likely that Ginny has been left with the gift after her 
possession. I really do hope that Harry, and possibly Ginny, get an 
opportunity to develop this gift, and indeed to accept it as a gift 
despite its origins. 

I don't see why parselmouth would be the only animal communication 
skill. There's some evidence that Sirius/Padfoot and Crookshanks had 
some fairly high level communication. Whether that means that dogs 
and cats have mutually intelligible languages, or that Crookshanks 
has a gift for interspecies communication is another question. I'll 
be keeping my eyes open for this type of thing though. I do expect to 
run across at least one character that can talk to cats (maybe Mrs. 
Figg).

Erasmas