Timeline for Why Didn't Dumbledore Hear the Basilisk?
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| Jul 31, 2015 at 22:46 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | Yes, Nagthilda whispers, “You are Potter?”, “Over here”, and “There”, and then after discarding the Bathilda costume, Nagini whispers “Yesss… hold you… hold you…”. | |
| Jul 31, 2015 at 22:37 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | Oh yes, Bathilda! Completely forgot about that. | |
| Jul 31, 2015 at 22:36 | comment | added | Martha | I don't remember the dueling scene too well, so you might be right that that snake doesn't speak. I'll have to look this up next time I'm near my books, which might be a while. | |
| Jul 31, 2015 at 22:34 | comment | added | Martha | @JanusBahsJacquet: don't forget Bathilda Bagshot, or rather, Nagini posing as Bathilda Bagshot, in the last book. In the movie, she doesn't speak, but I believe in the book she does speak once she gets Harry alone. | |
| Jul 31, 2015 at 21:58 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | Actually, no, I take that back. Nagini does speak once, to inform Voldemort of the presence of Frank Bryce on the landing outside the room. If o recall correctly, Frank heard just a hiss, whereas when Voldemort replies to Nagini, he hears it as a spluttering kind of noise, showing that snakes talking and people speaking Parseltongue do in fact sound different from one another. | |
| Jul 31, 2015 at 21:53 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | The snake never said anything to Harry in the duelling scene, though, did it? It just looked at him and then backed away. Even Nagini doesn't utter a single Parselword throughout the series. Apart from the basilisk, the only instance of a snake talking is the “Thanksssssss, amigo” hissed by the escaping boa constrictor at the zoo. Take that away (not half unlikely Harry imagined it anyway), and the basilisk becomes the only talking serpent in the series—and even the basilisk remains completely shtum down in the Chamber. Maybe snakes only talk in pipes. | |
| Jul 31, 2015 at 17:50 | history | answered | Martha | CC BY-SA 3.0 |