Bertie the Parselmouth
written by Louisa S R W
Discover powers you didn't know you had
Last Updated
05/31/21
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Chapter 1
You all know about it, it’s written on my profile, I am a parselmouth. My father was a parselmouth, all of the Gaunts were, Salazar Slytherin was, and Harry Potter even spoke it for a time. I’ve never tried to hide it, in fact I used to speak it with my father. Some people even said we had an “accent” I’m not entirely sure about this but it’s entirely possible. We went to school at Hogwarts after all, learnt Latin and went home to London in the summer. I hesitate to say that it is possible that my father’s side (Gaunts & Slytherins) have the purest of accents simply because they are known to have spoken it as their first language whereas at Hogwarts English is the first language with elvish thrown in. I remember parseltongue being the language of myself, my father and Nagini.
Between us it became a somewhat Dark, secret and hidden language that Harry Potter was able to speak for some reason. These days Parseltongue is more of a party trick than any-thing else. Simply because I have no-one to speak it with, other than the odd snake at the zoo, menagerie, etc… That was until the other week when my son Bertie came up to me and exclaimed that he could hear a strange sound. Long story short, I ended up calling an Ashwinder to the house (wonderful creatures) and Bertie spoke to it. IN PARSELTONGUE.
To say I was amazed is only half right, I had inherited this magical talent from my father, my daughter has never shown any talent as a parselmouth but here is Bertie at 9 years and 9months speaking to snakes. I was strangely proud, on some level I'd like to think my father was proud when he found out that too as a parselmouth.
I think my father was around this age when he learnt of his talent yet I was only 2 or 3.
Back to accents, looking through some of the articles, I found “Reptilian” is spoken by more snake-like creatures (obviously), “Western” is said to have been spoken by my father and Gaunt family and “West-ern-Reptilian” was spoken by Harry. By this logic I assume that I speak “Western” as I did sound different to Harry when we were at school but I don’t know. I simply made more “th” sounds and breathed in on certain letters. Personally, I think it was due to the Elvish way of speaking. I have been listening to Bertie over the last few days and I think that he sounds like me. Even our lessons are conducted in Parseltongue to make life interesting.
Between us it became a somewhat Dark, secret and hidden language that Harry Potter was able to speak for some reason. These days Parseltongue is more of a party trick than any-thing else. Simply because I have no-one to speak it with, other than the odd snake at the zoo, menagerie, etc… That was until the other week when my son Bertie came up to me and exclaimed that he could hear a strange sound. Long story short, I ended up calling an Ashwinder to the house (wonderful creatures) and Bertie spoke to it. IN PARSELTONGUE.
To say I was amazed is only half right, I had inherited this magical talent from my father, my daughter has never shown any talent as a parselmouth but here is Bertie at 9 years and 9months speaking to snakes. I was strangely proud, on some level I'd like to think my father was proud when he found out that too as a parselmouth.
I think my father was around this age when he learnt of his talent yet I was only 2 or 3.
Back to accents, looking through some of the articles, I found “Reptilian” is spoken by more snake-like creatures (obviously), “Western” is said to have been spoken by my father and Gaunt family and “West-ern-Reptilian” was spoken by Harry. By this logic I assume that I speak “Western” as I did sound different to Harry when we were at school but I don’t know. I simply made more “th” sounds and breathed in on certain letters. Personally, I think it was due to the Elvish way of speaking. I have been listening to Bertie over the last few days and I think that he sounds like me. Even our lessons are conducted in Parseltongue to make life interesting.
