08-15-2006, 08:00 AM | #38 |
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An interesting quote from one of Redhens essays:
"To normal human ears, Parseltongue, when spoken by a human wizard, is a hissing and spitting without drawing breath. When expressed by a snake, however, it is at most a simple hissing of air. Snakes, like most reptiles, hiss because snakes, like all other land animals and amphibians, breathe. Snakes do not, however, produce vocalized sounds, because they do not possess vocal cords. Neither do they possess eyelids. In Harry's exchange with the boa constrictor in the zoo, however, Harry understood the snake to have both spoken and winked at him. It seems reasonable to assume that both the voice and the wink were some form of psychic projection, which Harry was able to receive, interpret and to respond to in kind, while the exchange remained either inaudible, or unintelligible, and invisible to onlookers." what do you think?
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