parselmouths

Chys Sage Lattes yami69hikari at yahoo.com
Sun May 22 11:10:56 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 129305

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, tyler maroney <tmar78 at y...> 
wrote:
> Hi everybody!  I know this may seem like a strange
> topic,  but bear with me.  Just a little something
> that popped into my head tonight while I was at work. 
> How does parseltongue work exactly?  From what we've
> seen,  it appears that while your mouthing english
> words,  it comes out as another language.  Or is this
> the case?  Could it be that parselmouths are both
> mouthing and speaking parseltongue without being
> consciously aware of it?  I got to thinking about
> this,  wondering if LV would be able to read Harry's
> lips should he be spying on him through a pair of
> omnioculars while Harry's conversing with a snake.
> 


I've been wondering about the parselmouth thing myself... snakes 
either don't have ears or can't hear, I forget which, so how can they 
have a language? Is it vibrations? Is that why no one else could hear 
the Basalisk in the pipes? It was fairly obvious what Harry was doing 
with the snake during the duel scene with Malfoy, but did anyone 
actually hear snake speak words? I don't remember. I just don't 
understand the language aspect of it because of snakes and hearing. 
They stick out their tongue and breathe in scents, I'm a little lost 
here.


Chys






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