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Justin : What
are you playing at?
Ron : You're a Parselmouth! Why didn't you tell us?
Harry : I'm a what?
Hermione : You can talk to snakes.
Harry : I know. I mean, I accidentally
set a python on my
cousin Dudley at the zoo once... once! But so what? I
bet loads of
people here can do it.
Hermione : No. They can't. It's not a very common
gift, Harry. This is bad.
Harry : What's bad? If I hadn't told that snake not to
attack Justin -
Ron : Oh, that's what you said to it.
Harry : You were there! You heard me!
Ron : I heard you speaking Parseltongue. Snake
language.
Harry : I spoke a different language? But I didn't
realize -- how can I speak a language without knowing I
can?
Hermione : I don't know, Harry. But it sounded like
you were egging the snake
on or something. Harry, listen to me.
There's a reason the symbol of Slytherin House is a
serpent. Salazar Slytherin was a Parselmouth. He could
talk to snakes, too.
Ron : Exactly. And now the whole school's gonna to
think you're his great-great-great grandson or
something.
Harry : But I'm not. I can't be.
Hermione : He lived a thousand years ago. For all we
know... you could be.
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