I just finished re-reading COS for the hundredth time and thought of something. Harry is the only one who can hear Tom Riddle controlling the basilisk because he is a parsel tongue. When the dueling club is started he tells the snake not to attack Justin. Everyone hears a hissing sound from Harry’s mouth. They do not understand what he is saying, but can tell he is talking to the snake. Shouldn’t the basilisk be the same way? Tom was speaking to it but only Harry could hear it. Everyone else should be able to hear a hissing sound like they did with Harry, but not understand it. They can hear parsel tongue from Harry but not understand it, yet they cannot understand Tom Riddle using it to command the basilisk. I figured people should have heard a hissing sound when the basilisk was in the pipes. _________________ Do people actually read this?
The hissing is low, and nobody was listening for it. It would sound like water going through the pipes if some one were to hear it. There is nothing suspicious about that. _________________
It took me a while to figure out the sound wasn't the pipes but indeed the low hissing. There is nothing really big about it. _________________ Let me baby dragon hatch!
On a related topic - I've been wondering: when the basilisk is roaming the castle pipes, he mutters to himself ("kill, kill, I smell blood" etc.). Why is it that during the whole fight in the Chamber he doesn't utter a single word? _________________ "What's comin' will come, an' we'll meet it when it does." -- Rubeus Hagrid
On a related topic - I've been wondering: when the basilisk is roaming the castle pipes, he mutters to himself ("kill, kill, I smell blood" etc.). Why is it that during the whole fight in the Chamber he doesn't utter a single word?
On a related topic - I've been wondering: when the basilisk is roaming the castle pipes, he mutters to himself ("kill, kill, I smell blood" etc.). Why is it that during the whole fight in the Chamber he doesn't utter a single word?
He was busy chasing Harry, getting his eyes gouged out by a phoenix, and getting stabbed in the mouth by a sword?
Edit: Additionally, the books are primarily from Harry's point-of-view, who was more or less running for his life at the time. I doubt he was listening in for what the basilisk was saying.
On a related topic - I've been wondering: when the basilisk is roaming the castle pipes, he mutters to himself ("kill, kill, I smell blood" etc.). Why is it that during the whole fight in the Chamber he doesn't utter a single word?
He was busy chasing Harry, getting his eyes gouged out by a phoenix, and getting stabbed in the mouth by a sword?
Edit: Additionally, the books are primarily from Harry's point-of-view, who was more or less running for his life at the time. I doubt he was listening in for what the basilisk was saying.
The basilisk was saying that stuff when he was going through the pipes, and Harry heard it . . . I don't understand what you're getting at. _________________
On a related topic - I've been wondering: when the basilisk is roaming the castle pipes, he mutters to himself ("kill, kill, I smell blood" etc.). Why is it that during the whole fight in the Chamber he doesn't utter a single word?
He was busy chasing Harry, getting his eyes gouged out by a phoenix, and getting stabbed in the mouth by a sword?
Edit: Additionally, the books are primarily from Harry's point-of-view, who was more or less running for his life at the time. I doubt he was listening in for what the basilisk was saying.
The basilisk was saying that stuff when he was going through the pipes, and Harry heard it . . . I don't understand what you're getting at.
they're saying that durring the fight in the chamber harry didn't hear the basilisk because he was running for his life. _________________
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I just assumed that, for example Ron and Hermione, being with Harry when he hears the basilisk, that they only hear hissing and think it's just the water rushing through the pipes. They don't say as much, but that's just what my imagination came up with. _________________ Padfoot was here.
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On a related topic - I've been wondering: when the basilisk is roaming the castle pipes, he mutters to himself ("kill, kill, I smell blood" etc.). Why is it that during the whole fight in the Chamber he doesn't utter a single word?
He was busy chasing Harry, getting his eyes gouged out by a phoenix, and getting stabbed in the mouth by a sword?
Edit: Additionally, the books are primarily from Harry's point-of-view, who was more or less running for his life at the time. I doubt he was listening in for what the basilisk was saying.
The basilisk was saying that stuff when he was going through the pipes, and Harry heard it . . . I don't understand what you're getting at.
they're saying that durring the fight in the chamber harry didn't hear the basilisk because he was running for his life.
Oh, I was misinterpreting it. I doubt that the snake was saying anything when Harry was in the chamber. It didn't need to talk. When it was going through the pipes, it was hungry, so it was saying that it needed food. It the chamber it was just following orders. _________________
Oh, I was misinterpreting it. I doubt that the snake was saying anything when Harry was in the chamber. It didn't need to talk. When it was going through the pipes, it was hungry, so it was saying that it needed food. It the chamber it was just following orders.
that's what i thought, he's just following orders nothing more _________________
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