Every species that reproduces sexually needs at least a little bit of skill at socializing. And again, using the example of the Sorting Hat, we know that borrowed sentience closely resembles the sentience of the lender, so snakes don’t even need to be good at socializing as long as humans are.
true, about the borrowed sentience—if it is gaining the ability to understand language, and especially if it can understand very social words like “teacher” that we know are representable in Parseltongue, is it really a stretch that it’s borrowing human social cognition as well? I should have thought of that.
Every species that reproduces sexually needs at least a little bit of skill at socializing. And again, using the example of the Sorting Hat, we know that borrowed sentience closely resembles the sentience of the lender, so snakes don’t even need to be good at socializing as long as humans are.
true, about the borrowed sentience—if it is gaining the ability to understand language, and especially if it can understand very social words like “teacher” that we know are representable in Parseltongue, is it really a stretch that it’s borrowing human social cognition as well? I should have thought of that.