Despite knowing that snakes can’t actually hear and thus could not possibly have a verbal language, I’ve always thought that Parseltongue must have have some sort of correlation, however rough, between what they were saying and the kinds of hissing they produced.
How else would you use a password-recognition spell—similar to the one for Dumbledore’s office—to lock the Chamber of Secrets?
Despite knowing that snakes can’t actually hear and thus could not possibly have a verbal language, I’ve always thought that Parseltongue must have have some sort of correlation, however rough, between what they were saying and the kinds of hissing they produced.
How else would you use a password-recognition spell—similar to the one for Dumbledore’s office—to lock the Chamber of Secrets?