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[kkersey_austin]

No: HPFGUIDX 172905


> Libby:
> > I'm curious if anyone was as surprised/dismayed at Ron's ability to
> > fake Parseltongue well enough to access the Chamber of Secrets

Maybe it's a Weasley thing - Ginny could do it too, albeit while being
possessed by Riddle's Diary Horcrux.

You know, it just occurred to me that maybe Ron's being able to fake
Parseltongue is part of a larger pattern - Voldemort liked to think of
himself as being uniquely gifted with certain powers and knowledge,
but it keeps turning out that he's not as special as he thought. E.g.
his delusion that he was the only one to have discovered the Room of
Requirement (in spite of much evidence to the contrary in the room
itself!). Also, near the beginning of the book other wizards seem
horrified that he can fly without a broomstick, but then we see Snape
do that too. Ron is about as far as you can get from being the Heir of
Slytherine but he was able to get into the Chamber of Secrets anyway. 

Voldemort is the only one we hear about who is able to possess other
living beings, though, right?

Elisabet