[HPforGrownups] Saving Ginny (was Re: Lockhart's incompetence)

[JLen1777 at aol.com]

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Betsy Hp:
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That's why the teachers' air of helplessness worked for me.  Harry  
had an in.  He spoke the language and heard the monster creeping  
about the school.  None of the staff had even that level of knowledge  
to go with, so they didn't have much of a place to start,  IMO.


 
 
Jaimee:
I agree, but I do have a question concerning the issue of Harry being the  
only one to be able to find the chamber of secrets and his parseltongue  
abilities.
 
First, (and I don't have the book with me, so I hope its not movie memory I  
have, but I think that in both the book and film, when Harry spoke to the 
snake  at the duel in CoS, that the others heard him "hissing" as in speaking  par
seltongue, but of course could not understand him.  
 
Now, if Harry can hear the basilisk because of his ability, shouldn't  others 
maybe hear the hissing noise?  I suppose that a noise like that  could be 
excused as something else in a drafty, old castle, or not loud enough  to detect 
as an actual "voice," but I thought it was worth mentioning.
 
Also, in HBP, when DD is showing Harry memories of Riddle, and he shows the  
ministry member, Bob Ogden (I think) going to the Gaunt's, Harry is puzzled  
when Ogden does not understand Morfin, then Dumbledore says, but you understand 
 him, don't you Harry? (paraphrase, but its something along those lines), and 
 Harry realizes that he is speaking parseltongue.  What's odd to me, is that  
Dumbledore seems as if he too must understand the conversation, or wouldn't 
he  need to ask Harry what Morfin is saying? And, if he does understand it, 
wouldn't  it seem likely that he too would have heard the basilisk in CoS?  
 
I mean I figure its all easily explained away, but I thought it might be  
worth seeing what others think on the subject.
 
Any ideas?
 
Jaimee


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