Ron and Parseltongue

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 183298

---  "need_to_sleep_now" <bleepnbooster at ...> wrote:
>
> Hello!
> 
> ...
> 
> Something that grated a little on me when reading DH was when
> Hermione explained how Ron has opened the CofS to obtain the
> basilsk fangs by using Parseltongue.  I thought that you were
> either born with this ability or not, it wasn't something that
> could just be copied.
> 
> Is there something I'm missing?
> 
> Fantastic site by the way; fantastic to get the more mature 
> view on the books!
> 
> bleepnbooster
>

bboyminn:

Actually this has been discussed, but I don't remember when.
Still, a simple enough question, so let me say this -

Once upon a time in a far away land called Japan, several
celebrities were periodically called upon to make TV
commercials for various products. Not speaking any Japanese
was no hinderence since the just learned their lines
phonetically, and in essense faked it.

It was one single word in parseltongue that Ron spoke -
'Open' and it took him several tries to get it right. 

I think we could all do that in pretty much any language
we didn't understand. Ron heard Harry speak the word 'open'
in parseltongue when Harry opened that bathroom entrance
to the Chamber of Secret and again, more recently, when
Harry opened the locket.

I don't think it would have been that hard for him to fake
it.

Just one man's opinion.

Steve/bboyminn