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[sarah_kendrick2004]

No: HPFGUIDX 173078

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sandra Collins"
<sandra87b at ...> wrote:
<SNIP>
> Hello Lady P! That's an interesting point, but you have to bear in
> mind how long ago Ron and Harry were in the girls bathroom. I
> think about 5 years earlier, because it was back in book two. So
> Ron would need qquite a memory to recall a totally bizarre
> language like that, wouldn't he? And even if he had heard Harry
> since then, like with the snitch in TDH, and somehow
> immediately committed the strange sounds to memory,
> Parseltongue is not portrayed as alnguage which can be
> learned. <SNIP>

Felinegroovy:

Yes, I am another newbie....  In response to Sandra and Libby, Ron
did not hear Harry in the bathroom five years before and remember it
for this time, he heard Harry say "Open" in parseltongue when he
opened the locket in DH.  He just tried imitating the sounds. It is
not unlike imitating the words of a foreign language.  IMHO, I
think that the amazing part of Harry knowing Parseltongue is that he
just KNOWS its. No one taught him, he didn't even know he was
speaking it.  I would imagine that Parseltongue could be
taught.learned if there was someone who could teach it.  That would
likely require a phenom, like Harry, who is born with the ability, as
I don't know of any other way a snake could teach it.  Even if it is
not teachable, the imitation of the sounds to get the right "word" to
open the COS is not a far fetched idea.