Parselmouths among great and good?

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 144779


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> Ceridwen: 
> Yet, it's as much canon that Dumbledore says there are Parselmouths 
> among the great and good.  We see no examples of these great and good 
> people.  Dumbledore doesn't give us any.  Neither does anybody else. 

Potioncat:
I think DD means two people we saw, but didn't know we saw: himself and 
Harry. They understood what was being said in the memories about the 
Gaunts. 

Another possibility just crossed my mind. Snape gave Harry a specific 
look in the dueling scene. Now, it would make sense that Snape had 
heard Parseltounge before from LV without understanding it. Just like 
I'd know French if I heard it, but wouldn't understand it. But what if 
Snape speaks it as well? (Parseltongue, not French.)

Potioncat, who has been bouncing and now knows what Draco felt like.