You make it seem like he suddenly sprouted the ability to talk to snakes. This is the exact quote:
"But how did you get in there?" he [Harry] asked [...]"You need to speak Parseltounge!"
"He did," whispered Hermione. "Show him, Ron!"
Ron made a horrible strangled hissing noise.
"It's what you did to open the locket," he told Harry apologetically. "I had to have a few goes to get it right but," he shrugged modestly, "we got there in the end."
(pg 623, Chapter 31- The Battle of Hogwarts, DH)
He didn't actually speak Parseltounge, he just mimicked the noise Harry had made to open the chamber. After a few tries, he was able to get it right.
It didn't bother me. It made sense that Ron could (and would) mimic the sound to open the Chamber.
I was just... Surprised. I'm actually kind of mad that he did, because it's something that throughout all the books, they said you were just born able to do it. If you weren't born able to speak parseltounge, then you can't speak parseltounge. I don't know, it kind of annoyed me.
posted over a year ago
it wasn't really parseltongue,he just made it sound like that
i was like okay he can't speak it then i kind of kicked in and i was like why in the world can he speak that i tougt only harry and tom riddle could then i was like yay he gets some attion the good kind were he gets in toudle
Ron dosent speak parseltounge he merely mimicked the sound harry did while opening it which was a short hiss. it took several tries as stated in the books and i believe that the hiss came out rather uneven. probably the chamber though the speaker was wheezing or cough or getting attacked but since it heard a similar hiss to opening it It Opened! i wasnt very shocked
