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[Alice Franceschini]

No: HPFGUIDX 173018

Libby wrote:
> I'm curious if anyone was as surprised/dismayed at Ron's ability to
> fake Parseltongue well enough to access the Chamber of Secrets
> Admittedly, he did earlier show skill impersonating Wormtail's voice
> well enough to fool the Death Eaters at Malfoy Manor, but Parseltongue
> has been billed as such a rare talent that it rang false for me.
>
> Seems to me a well-placed Reductor Curse would have accomplished much
> the same thing without fudging.


Here's my take on this.  Ron was around when Harry was using
Parseltongue.  He was standing there in the girl's bathroom
when Harry spoke in parseltongue to the sink.

When I was a kid I watched a lot of western movies and kids
I hung around with would repeat sounds that sounded like the
Spanish words the Mexicans in the movies used.  Moochachos -
not spelled right but is the Spanish word for Friends.

So when Hermione and Ron went to the Chamber Of Secrets I think all
Ron did was imitate the sounds he heard Harry make and he was
very lucky that he produced the correct sounds. But that sometimes
happens don't it ?  Plus these kids are magical and when they really
need or want something, they can do some extraoridinary things.

Lady Potions