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[verosomm]

No: HPFGUIDX 173067

Elisabet <kkersey at ...> wrote:
>
> Maybe it's a Weasley thing - Ginny could do it too, albeit
> while being possessed by Riddle's Diary Horcrux.


Veronica:
There was a thread on here a few weeks before the book came out, that
the basilisk, in mythlore, can be defeated by a "weasel" if the
weasel eats rue, which makes the weasel immune to the basilisk's
stare, or something to that effect.  Ron was given essence of rue in
Book 6 after he drank the poisoned mead.  I'm guessing, since the
basilisk was already dead, but the chamber mouth, on the faucet in
Myrtle's bathroom, was like an enchanted basilisk, Ron using the
Parseltongue worked since he's a "weasel" "weasley"?  Sorry I don't
know what the # for the thread is and the server keeps telling me
it's busy when I do a search!  But it's here, I swear, and I don't
want to take credit for it, since it's not my original idea.

Also, someone on THIS thread was saying they thought Parseltongue
couldn't be learned... I'm guessing it could, but nobody "good"
wanted to learn it since it's got such a bad stigma attached to it,
so after all these years, no one knows it can be learned.

Veronica