[HPforGrownups] Re: Dumbledore the parselmouth?

[Jazmyn Concolor]

No: HPFGUIDX 151180



Jennifer Carlson wrote:

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>Jen:
>Considered it, yes, but I somehow doubt it, considering how dark JK 
>has made it out to be.  That is also why it matters if DD is able to 
>talk to snakes.  It is what Voldemort is famous for, and is quite 
>often throughout the books referred to as the mark of a dark wizard.
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On WHOSE word do we have for this?  Ron's?  Ron has been shown 
repeatedly ignorant before of his own world, so why should we take his 
world for it that its the mark of a dark wizard?  Hermione?  She gets 
all her facts from books and as we have seen from Lockhart's books, many 
things in WW books might be taken with a grain of salt.  If so, why 
isn't Harry a dark wizard just for the ability to speak it?

I think there are no 'absolutes' in the WW and a lot of people who 
'assume' things based on circumstantial and flimsy evidence.  Its like 
trying to claim all blond people are unintelligent to claim that all 
wizards who speak or understand parselmouth are automatically evil, dark 
wizards.  And even if Dumbledore only understands the speech through use 
of magic and doesn't speak it, does not mean he is suddenly evil.  
People spend so much time looking at black and white, they fail to see 
all the shades of gray between.  The whole world isn't neatly divided 
into good people and death eaters after all.

Jazmyn


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