They called Slytherin himself Serpent-tongue. Parseltongue is the language of serpents (as well as other magical serpent-based creatures, like the Runespoor) and those who can converse with them. An individual who can speak Parseltongue is known as a Parselmouth.
Parseltongue. If you are lucky (or unlucky) enough to speak Parseltongue, you have the ability to communicate with snakes. Salazar Slytherin was one very famous Parselmouth – it's why Slytherin's symbol is a serpent!
Parseltongue itself seems to be a magically generated amalgam created by magic from the minds of speakers. It bears many strong resemblances to languages from Africa and India, both areas with long histories of human-snake interaction.
To date, the ability to speak Parseltongue has been almost entirely associated with those who can show direct descent from Salazar Slytherin.
The language is incredibly rare, as Harry is told countless times. The only place it isn't rare is within the bloodline of Salazar Slytherin himself – and as such, is usually hereditary.
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Ginny Weasley was able to speak Parseltongue while she was possessed by Tom Riddle's Diary, which enabled her to open the Chamber of Secrets.
Ron spoke Parseltongue in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to open the Chamber of Secrets.
Paracelsus a notable alchemist and a "medical genius" is credited with the discovery of Parseltongue in the sixteenth century, despite the existence of speakers like Herpo the Foul or Salazar Slytherin in the classical and medieval ages.
Harry James Potter holds half-blood status in Rowling's imagined wizarding world because his mother is Muggle-born and his father is pure-blood. There are three main blood statuses; pure-blood, half-blood, and Muggle-born, which are all methods of determining a witch or wizard's magical lineage.
Harry is the Heir of Gryffindor (though his powers have been bound by his father when he was a baby), Neville is the Heir of Hufflepuff, Meghan (OFC, daughter of Sirius) is the Heir of Ravenclaw. Harry/Ginny, Ron/Hermione, Remus/Tonks. Sixth year. After a rare magical illness Harry becomes outstandingly powerful.
Harry and Draco were both parselmouths: one born, the other taught. They fought in parseltongue in front of the entire school on a near-daily basis, and the hisses and snarls were easily heard as threats. Except they weren't threats, or even angry.
No. Harry himself lost the ability to speak Parseltongue after the horcrux in him was destroyed. Harry never legitimately inherited the ability to talk to snakes, so his children don't inherit it either.
The spell is known as Priori Incantatem, where a wand forces another wand to reveal the spells of its past. Lord Voldemort's wand history was simple; he was out there to kill as many as possible, with seemingly no remorse.
Salazar Slytherin (fl. c. 993) was a pure-blood wizard, noted for his cunning and determination.
"Not all Slytherins think they're racially superior," she tweeted. "But all those who do are Slytherins." Oh, suh-nap. As Hagrid says in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," "There's not a single witch or wizard who went bad who wasn't in Slytherin." But that doesn't mean all Slytherins are bad!
Her fortuitous babbling led to her meeting the Great Basilisk of the Chamber of Secrets. Upon introducing the Basilisk to her friends, she inadvertently revealed she was a Parselmouth, a fact she had previous neglected to mention to them.
Yes, he loses his ability to speak Parseltongue. In fact he lost the ability the moment Voldemort destroyed his part of his soul which lived as a horcrux in Harry. JK said that losing the ability to speak Parseltongue was actually something that gave Harry relief.
Voldemort intentionally made six Horcruxes, but when he used Avada Kedavra on Harry, he unintentionally created a seventh Horcrux. Instead of dying, Lily's love for Harry created a counter 'curse' known as Sacrificial Protection and saved Harry.
Draco's refusal to reveal Harry's identity to Bellatrix was not because he liked him. It was because he believed that Harry was the only chance they had at defeating Voldemort. At first, Draco admired and revered Voldemort until he threatened his family's safety.
However, while Goyle is quickly subdued, Crabbe starts using the killing curse Avada Kedavra, showing his complete lack of compunction and humanity by this time. In the end, Crabbe is consumed by his own malice, being devoured by the Fiendfyre he has summoned.
Through his mother's family, he is the last descendant of the wizard Salazar Slytherin, one of the four founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
The lightning bolt scar that was so vibrant in the first films has almost completely disappeared. The scar is no longer dark, and instead has faded almost to his usual skintone. Scars do fade with time, but J.K Rowling wrote in the book that: "The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well."
Ginevra Molly Weasley (also known as Ginny) is the youngest child and only daughter of the Weasley family. She is Sorted into Slytherin during Harry and Jim Potter's second year.
The Chamber was in fact opened, approximately fifty years before the time of the Harry Potter series, by Tom Riddle (who later styled himself as Lord Voldemort).