Book Two Discoveries! [Parselmouth!Harry]

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 112590

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Florentine Maier" 
<florentinemaier at h...> wrote:
> I just re-read book two, keeping my eyes open for "discoveries". 
> Apart from all the things that have been mentioned in this thread 
> before, I think another potential "discovery" is that Harry speaks 
> Parsel. - This is something neither himself nor others had known 
> before. After CoS, this power never played an important role again.
> 
> Now what could the discovery of Harry's Parsel knowledge 
foreshadow? 
> I suspect that it hints at something that happened the night 
Harry's 
> parents were killed, especially what happened between himself and 
> Voldemort: The transferral of magical powers, the mental 
> connection,... Maybe Harry got another magical power transferred 
from 
> Voldemort that night?

Geoff:
You haven't made yourself quite clear or I'm just being extra thick 
today. From canon, we have:

'"You can speak Parseltongue, Harry," said Dumbledore 
calmly, "because Lord Voldemort - who is the last remaining 
descendant of Salazar Slytherin - can speak Parseltongue. Unless I'm 
much mistaken, he transferred some of his powers to you the night he 
gave you that scar. Not something he intended to do, I'm sure...."'

(COS "Dobby's Reward" p.245 UK edition)

By "another magical power", do you mean in addition to the power to 
speak Parseltongue, mentioned above? Because this would presumably be 
an as-yet-undiscovered "discovery" if you see what I mean.

Geoff
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