Chamber of Horcruxes

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 161511

Carol earlier:
> > [Dumbledore couldn't understand Parseltongue] much less speak it
or he'd have been able to find and open the chamber. Not being
Slytherin's true Heir, he couldn't do it.
> > <snip>
> 
> Mike:
> OK, I can't resist <eg> If only Slytherin's heir can open the 
> chamber, how did Harry do it? Ginny could do it because she had a 
> piece of Riddle's soul possessing her, meaning the soul of Riddle 
> identified him as the heir of Slytherin. Did Harry have something in 
> him that would also identify him as the heir of Slytherin, thereby 
> allowing him to open the chamber?
> 
> The evidence mounts. <veg>

Carol:
"You can speak Parseltongue, Harry, because Lord Voldemort can speak
Parseltongue." Harry unquestionably inherited at least one and
probably several of Voldemort's *powers*. But we're no further along
than we were in proving that Harry or his scar contains a soul bit.
I'm not saying that it isn't, only that we can't treat this theory as
canonical, nor is it the only possible explanation for Harry's
acquisition of some of Voldie's powers.

As for "Parsel-eared," the concept has not been introduced in the
books, and I can't imagine Dumbledore not dealing with the problem in
some more effective way if he really could hear the Basilisk. (BTW, is
it just coincidence that Professor Sprout was growing mandrakes that
year or are they always a project for the second years? Probably,
we'll never know.)

Carol, who hopes she doesn't sound humorless but has said all she has
to say about the diary and the ostensible soul bit in Harry's scar