Did Harry speak to the Basilisk?

[sjd914 <sjd914@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 50536

Taryn:

"Slytherin, according to the legend, sealed the Chamber of Secrets so 
that none would be able to open it until his own true heir arrived at 
the school. The **heir alone** would be able to unseal the Chamber of 
Secrets, unleash the horror within, and use it to purge the school of 
all who were unworthy to study magic." (US paperback p. 151, emphasis 
mine)

So it stands to reason that /only/ the Heir of Slytherin could 
control 
the basilisk, whether another person was a parselmouth or not.
 
 Mike: But by that logic, Harry shouldn't have been able to unseal 
the Chamber 
 either.

Me: I think her point was that Harry is the Heir of Slytherin. IMO I 
think that the legend said that only his own heir could open it is 
because only Slytherins's heirs were Parselmouths. Also Riddle did say in 
the CoS movie that Harry's Parseltongue wouldn't work and that it only 
listened to him, though that may have simply been the fact that the 
Basilisk already knew Riddle.