Question #1

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 183380

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Lee Kaiwen <leekaiwen at ...> wrote:

> This parallels the incident in the Dueling Club, when Harry was 
> unaware that he'd been speaking parseltongue.


zanooda:

Add here the zoo incident and Bob Ogden's memory :-).


> Lee Kaiwen wrote:
 
> Any theories as to why that would be? Being multi-lingual myself has 
> never stopped me from recognizing which language was being spoken at 
> me.


zanooda:

What do you mean by "multi-lingual"? I personally met a truly
bi-lingual person (meaning that both languages were native to him, not
learned as foreign languages) only once in my life, and I remember him
saying that, when he is being spoken to in one of those languages, he
doesn't need to pause and think which one is that - French or English.
He just answers instinctively in the correct language, without really
thinking. OTOH, that boy loved jokes, so maybe he was not serious
about this :-). But, if he was, this sounds a lot like Harry - just
understanding without consciously recognizing the language.