Is Ginny a Parselmouth?

[bowlwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 58376

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "vivamus42" <YahooGroups at T...> 
wrote:
> Canon: Riddle's memory told Harry that when he was taking over 
Ginny Weasley, he began to pour some of himself into her.  
> 
> Of all the interesting possibilities this raises, the most 
interesting to me is that Ginny may now be a parselmouth, since she 
had to speak Parseltongue in order to open the chamber.  


me (bowlwoman):

I have often wondered about this myself, especially now during my re-
read of the series in preparation for OoP.  

It is stated that she didn't remember opening the chamber/writing on 
the wall/killing the roosters, so who knows exactly what happened 
when the incidents were going on.  It's possible to take his comment 
as the essence of Tom Riddle possessing Ginny, so she wouldn't have 
the ability to do it after TR and the diary were destroyed (SHE never 
had the ability, it was TR all along).

OTOH, there is a nice parallel between the Harry/VM transfer of power 
and a Ginny/TR transfer of power.  If this is the case, then Ginny 
might show the ability for Parseltongue later on as well as some 
additional powers that TR had when he first started dabbling in the 
Dark Arts.

bowlwoman