Dumbledore the parselmouth?

[coldsliversofglass]

No: HPFGUIDX 151411

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kim" <spirittalks at ...> wrote:

> Kim wrote:
>This post makes me think about the basilisk slinking through the 
>pipes of the castle.  I've always wondered why the other students 
>and teachers couldn't even hear the snake hiss, though Harry wasn't 
>always alone when he heard it.   While Harry could hear it plainly 
>enough to understand the words he was saying.  Now I also wonder why 
>a very observant Dumbledore didn't hear the snake hiss and 
>understand the language, as well.  He's all through the castle all 
>the time.  Or maybe it's just that the trio, and especially Harry, 
>are very "lucky" and always in the right place at the right time.  
>Or it's just an oversight by the author who's trying to get a 
>gazillion elements of a long and wonderful story all packed into 7 
>books and sometimes has to just ask us to overlook some 
>inconsistencies.

coldsliversofglass:
For that matter, how could everyone for the last how many years have 
not heard it?  I mean, the basilisk has been there for awhile (long 
enough to kill Myrtle who would happily tell anyone inquiring into 
her death about the hissing) and no one's heard it all these years?  

The only thing i can think of it that maybe everyone assumed it was 
just the pipes in the walls making the noise...and Harry, because he
heard words instead of hissing, knew that it wasn't the pipes?

coldsliversofglass