Harry and Parseltongue

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 191202

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Peggy Kern" <kernsac at ...> wrote:
 
Peggy:
> Hi, all, from a lurker.  Here's something I've wondered about since reading DH:  After Voldemort's death, when Harry was no longer a horcrux, did he lose his ability to speak parseltongue?  Did he have that ability because part of Voldemort's soul was in him?  If so, he would have lost that ability, right?  Thoughts?

Geoff:
Unless JKR has said anything in interviews etc., I doubt if we have a 
definitive answer, but I would go for saying "Yes". 

As far back as COS, Dumbledore implied that Harry's ability to speak 
Parseltongue had been transferred from Voldemort at Godric's Hollow. 
Since the soul fragment which had made Harry a Horcrux had been 
destroyed during the confrontation in the forest, my feeling is that 
Harry has lost any powers attributable to that event.