Ron and Parseltongue

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 183305

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:
>
> ---  "Lynda Cordova" <sweenlit@> wrote:
> >
> > BUT, and here's the huge BUT with me- Ron had never 
> > demonstrated this gift before. So, I find it a bit 
> > unbelievable that he was able to copy the word that he 
> > had heard long ago


> bboyminn:
> 
> Just one small flaw in this thinking. It assumes that Ron 
> heard Harry say 'open' in parseltongue twice and never gave 
> it another thought. 
> 
> But, it is equally possible that he dwelt on it, pondering 
> how it sounded and might have even curiously tried to mimic 
> it a time or two; of course, in a very casual way.
> 
> Now when the chips are down, that background pondering 
> paid off, and with several failed attempts, he finally
> managed a passable 'open' in parseltongue. It didn't even
> have to be a good 'open', just a barely passable one. 
> 
> Too many people are assuming that Ron now suddenly has the
> gift of speaking parseltongue, but that is simply not true.
> He just by the barest margin and with great effort managed 
> to squeak out one passable word by mimicry.
> 
> Steve/bboyminn

Montavilla47:
Of course, we also don't know that "open" is a one-word
command in Parseltongue, either.  It might require any
number of different syllables and sounds.

Ron's kind of an amazing guy, when you think about it.
He's got a killer talent for Wizard Chess in one year, then
hardly ever plays again.  Then he goes from being barely
adequate as a Quidditch Keeper to winning the big game
to barely adequate again to winning the big game again.

And then he develops this amazing gift for mimicry!

(Anyone else get the feeling that Ron's been imitating
Harry behind his back all these years?)

:)