Ron's Parseltongue ( was: Loved it!)
Bex
kaleeyj at gmail.com
Sun Jul 29 00:24:23 UTC 2007
No: HPFGUIDX 173535
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "clairvoyant812"
<cfitzsimmons at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Lynda Cordova" <moosiemlo@>
> wrote:
> >
> > snip
>
> > Lynda:
> > Maybe that's it. I don't have a problem with Ron's mimicing in
> parseltongue
> > either, and I often sing in languages I don't understand.
<snip>
> >
> >
> >Claire:
> After reading the book again, I think I may have come up with a
> reasonable explanation of why Ron could speak Parseltongue to open
> the Chamber of Secrets. If you remember, just before Ron destroys
> the locket, Harry thought he saw a flash of scarlet in Ron's eyes.
> Could not a Voldemort memory have flashed into Ron and allowed him
> to speak a good enough version of Parseltongue to get them into the
> Chamber? Sorry if this has already been mentioned but I haven't
> seen it yet.
>
Bex now:
I think that "Open" is a very simple articulation - something Ron has
heard before and can mimic with some effort and several attempts. Like
Lynda said above, we can sing in languages we don't understand - I
know a few Spanish songs and a bunch of Latin hymns through choir, but
I don't speak Latin or Spanish.
Another point on this matter:
Most all of us who own dogs or cats at one time or another have
imitated their bark/meow, or a similar cry. I do all the time with our
cats, more so to annoy them than anything. And I don't have the
slightest clue what I'm saying, but I can sufficiently mimic that
noise. I think Ron remembered the last few encounters he had with
Harry speaking Parseltongue, recalled what Harry 'said' (keep in mind,
the times he's heard Harry speak Parseltongue have been very highly
charged times - he'd have some clear memories of those events), and
imitated him. Possibly the door wiggled a little as he got closer to
the correct pronunciation. Really, this was not very hard for me to
swallow.
~Bex
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