Among the many inconsistencies contained in the saga Harry Potterlet’s return today to this mystery around Ron Weasley.
Ron speaks Parseltongue, yet another mistake by JK Rowling?
Although the Harry Potter literary saga is one of the best series of fantasy novels, it is not free from many flaws. Films that adapt JK Rowling’s writings blatantly depict them. Among these script errors, Ron Weasley’s use of Parseltongue to open the Chamber of Secrets Ands The Deathly Hallowsseventh literary opus, and 8th and final film in the cinematographic saga.
As a reminder, during the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry and his friends are looking for a way to destroy Voldemort’s two Horcruxes, Helga Hufflepuff’s Cup and Rowena Ravenclaw’s Diadem. They know, from Harry’s experience years earlier, that basilisk venom allows this. So Ron and Hermione head towards the secret entrance to the Chamber of Secrets. This legendary section of the castle is only supposed to be accessible to “the heir of Slytherin” and must be opened via a password spoken in Parseltongue. But against all odds, Ron manages to open it, and comes out, modestly: “Harry talks in his sleep.”
A sort of somewhat easy and dubious plot twist, to justify what many claim to be an inconsistency. Among the criticisms, the fact that Ron, who already cannot pronounce incantations, can retain the exact word of Harry’s sentence. On the other hand, Ron is not the heir of Slytherin.
-Several explanations, Potterheads have the answer to everything
But some Potterheads, who prolonged the debate, tried to find a form of logic in this supposed inconsistency. On Reddit for example, one fan suggests that while Ron doesn’t know how to speak Parseltongue, he has, over the years, been able to reproduce the sounds, without nevertheless understanding its meaning. “Rowling also established that Dumbledore can understand Parseltongue (he understood Marvolo and Morfin Gaunt in memory from the Half-Blood Prince book), but cannot speak it. This might suggest that the ability to speak Parseltongue fluently cannot be taught, but one could learn to understand or reproduce it without being able to translate it (although it took several tries for Ron to enter the Chamber). »
On the other hand, Ron could very well have «duper» the Magic Doorwhich is nothing more than a mechanism (in the manner of Durin’s Gates from Lord of the Rings, which open upon the pronunciation of an Elvish password), unlike a real snake . “This is also partly because Ron wasn’t ‘talking’ to a real snake, but to an inanimate object that was probably calibrated to simply recognize wires. Take runes, for example (in broader fantasy, not just HP). If there is a mechanical puzzle box that needs to be solved in the form of a particular series of runes, any Muggle who knows the runic alphabet can probably open it.notes another Internet user.
We notice this, well after the release of Deathly Hallows: Part 2 in 2011, debates on the saga are still lively. And everyone will find their own little personal explanation there. This is also what helps maintain the mystery around the saga.
