#parselmouth harry potter

[drarrargh]

i needed to draw this. apparently

[reine-de-la-lune]

tom: *speaking in parseltongue* SSsSsSsS harry: take that back! *starts to fight in parseltongue* tom vs harry: SsSsSsSSSSSssss sssSsssSSS walbura: what the hell are you guys talking about? orion: i have no idea abraxas: they're flirting

[teacup-gathering-itself]

Imagine an eleven year old Harry Potter, fresh from the greenhouses and his first Herbology class, secretly covered in snakes under his robes. They’re just so nice, it can’t hurt to carry them around and keep them warm. They know their way around the school better than him, anyways.

Enter Professor Snape, starting his first class of Griffindor first year Potions.

“Cloaks and robes off, you will be utilizing open flames; loose, draping fabric will catch fire and send you to the hospital wing.”

Harry and a few other students keeps theirs on, trying to blend into the walls. It does not work.

“ROBES AND CLOAKS OFF. Quickly. You are wasting valuable class time.”

Harry removes his, very reluctantly. His arms and legs wriggle with garden snakes.

“Mr. Potter, what the fuck.”

“They’re my friends, professor.”

Snape walks up to Harry, helping get some of these creatures off of him.

“Why are you crawling with snakes, Mr. Potter?”

“They’re so nice, Professor Snape. Plus they told me the fastest way to your class.”

“You speak to snakes?”

“Always have, yeah.”

Snape realizes he is in no way paid enough to deal with this.

[immortalsoul]

[wilmvandrr]

HARRY!!!

harry with snek is my life, I would devout myself to this religion.

[jube-jube-bird]

Mehen in the sweater

From The Breaking of Glass:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/47145031?show_comments=true&view_full_work=false#comment_755397658

[fyodorwrites]

Does anyone know who's the artist?

[theundyingcenturion]

Okay, so my honey and I were having a debate over Ominis' eyes. He asked if Ominis were to use Polyjuice potion, would he be able to see? I thought probably not because according to Sebastian, the Gaunts tried 'everything' to fix Ominis' sight. He thinks possibly because of when the others became Harry in the films, they commented on his bad eyesight. Anyone else want to chime in on this debate?

[themostobsessed]

Read from right to left ✨

Little Tom is adorable. Also snakes might be the reason for his larger than life ego :>

[selfish-thunder]

I’ve got another idea.

Okay, so I love those fics that have Harry trying to use his Parselmouth on either (or both) the basilisk and the dragon in the first task of the Triwizard Tournament, with varying degrees of success. And a lot of the time, talking to the dragon kinda works, right? Like, it’s not direct communication, more like two people who are just above beginner’s level in learning the other’s language, and both languages are derivative of another one, so even if they don’t fully understand they can kinda piece together what the other is saying?

So, let’s say it’s like that. And of course, dragons aren’t born like squishy humans who take forever to learn to even roll over; they immediately start walking, flapping their wings, and hiccupping sparks, right?

AU

FIRST YEAR Harry, of course, doesn’t realize yet that he’s a Parselmouth–he doesn’t even know what Parseltongue is and just assumed being able to talk to that snake in the zoo was just a wizard thing.

So, they’re in Hagrid’s hut, Norbert(a) is born, and Harry hears something that sounds an awful lot like, “Food? Hungry? Momma?” or whatever a newborn dragon would try to communicate.

Harry tries to tell Hagrid he thinks the dragon is hungry, he might want to feed it, but the others are confused because it sounds to them like Harry is hiss-cooing or something to the dragon. (Hagrid thinks it’s adorable.) But anyway, however it comes about, it becomes obvious in the time between the dragon being born and Charlie’s friends coming to get them, that Harry can, in fact, understand the dragon and speak to it.

It’s not perfect, but he’s able to communicate to the dragon not to set something on fire or that they need to try to eat the rats as they’re being weaned off the whiskey/blood mix thing. No one thinks it’s a perk of Parseltongue because hello, he’s talking to a dragon, and isn’t this incredible? It must be some kind of ancient inheritance thing.

So, when they write to Charlie, they naturally have to ask him if he’s ever heard anything like that, so instead of just coming to collect the dragon, Charlie comes, too, and they witness this incredible thing. (So does Draco, in the shadows, of course.)

Charlie is super excited and reaches out to every expert he can, and he convinces McG to let him bring Harry out to a dragon range to be evaluated, and they try to keep this new, rare ability under wraps, but some of the assessors blab, and Draco wrote to complain to his father who goes on his own investigation, etc. At any rate, it becomes A Thing.

While Dumbledore steps in to ensure Harry goes back to the Dursleys, the obsessed dragon crowd refuse to be refused outright and secures Harry a camp-like thing at a dragon resort (because they think it’s clearly Harry’s destiny to become, like, the Ultimate Dragon Trainer, and Harry thinks dragons are cool and likes the sound of getting away from the Dursleys for a few weeks).

Their letters don’t get through that summer, though, and Charlie hears from his brothers that they haven’t heard from Harry either, so it’s Charlie who goes to check on him and finds him locked up with bars on his windows. Unlike Ron, Fred, and Geroge, Charlie is a grown-ass adult with his own connections now, which go beyond Dumbledore’ reach because the wealthy dragon resort that’s so interested in Harry is in a goddamn different country with a whole different magical government, and also, ain’t nobody wants to get on the bad side of a self-sufficient DRAGON RESORT that has a ton of dragons that aren’t just roaming their countryside thanks to them.

So, a new arrangement is made. Harry will return to the Dursleys, under strict Romania supervision (I imagine it's some seasoned, scary-looking dragon tamer who demands to stay in the house with them, taking over the guest room, like… ahhhh chef’s kiss) just long enough to satisfy the protection spell, but for the rest of the summer, Harry stays at the resort. Charlie becomes his unofficial guardian, kinda, and: enter, a bunch of OC dragon tamers who are awesome and very protective of their little dragon-speaker.

Second year goes a little differently. First there’s Draco, who hates Harry more than ever over this, but while he knows he’ll never get a dragon-in with the Weasleys, there’s still a slight chance with Harry (and goddamnit, dragons are his NAME’S SAKE, if anyone deserves free access to any dragon they want, it’s HIM), so he tries to become less of a bother. Harry’s still outed talking a different language during duel club, and some people are still suspicious, but most people know about his dragon-ability and wrongly assume the opposite of what it actually is (ie, he can kinda talk to snakes because he can talk to dragons), and Harry only tells Ron and Hermione that the snake was actually a lot easier to understand.

Go to next summer, when his new dragon-tamer-family learn about the events of second year, they firstly, throw a fit because they should have been informed their charge was in danger, and secondly, go and collect the basilisk because like hell are they going to let something like that just rot somewhere. So, figuring out how to destroy Horcruxes later becomes, like, SUPER easy and accessible.

Charlie’s the one who tells Harry about Sirius Black when he escapes, and he straight up tells Harry everything, about Black being his godfather and betraying his parents, all of it, so Harry goes into third year fully informed. He, of course, does not see the grim that summer. But he doesn't spent the year an emotional wreck, just getting a little bit of the info at a time, do with that as you will.

Harry arrives to school with a signed permission slip for Hogsmeade, and even though McGonagall still wants to refuse him because of Black, members of his dragon-tamer family just happen to be in the area for that year for ‘business’ or whatever (aka, protect Harry because ain't nobody said shit to them last year) and escort him to Hogsmeade anyway.

(“With all due respect, Professor, I once had a Peruvian Vipertooth grab my leg and toss me over a hill, and I still got back up and got the collar on her. You think Black scares me?”)

Most of their patronuses are dragons, except for one tamer whose patronus is a chipmunk, and funnily enough, it’s the most powerful patronus of all of them.

Draco doesn’t insult Buckbeak because he wants to prove to the tamers and probably Potter that he can, in fact, handle himself with larger magical creatures. He becomes Hagrid's best, most dedicated student.

I mean, COME ON,  imagine how the whole series can go differently.

Maybe the tamers get hilariously invested in the Scabbers/Crookshanks feud. It's the tamers, maybe, that figure out Scabbers fucking Pettigrew.

Different dragons have to be imported for the first task because Romania would be too biased - or they change the first task altogether because Harry's a known dragon-speaker.

They would DESTROY Umbridge.

Death Eaters vs Dragon Tamers. Dragon Tamers in the Order. Sirius lives because a Tamer was there in the Department of Mysteries to save him. Sirius not going out of his mind being stuck at Grimmauld because he can go to the resort where no one outside the Order recognizes him/cares.

Draco not becoming a Death Eater because he wants to become a Dragon Tamer.

DRAGONS AT THE BATTLE OF HOGWARTS. USING THE GRINGOTTS DRAGON INSTEAD OF GRIPHOOK TO BREAK INTO (AND OUT OF) GRINGOTTS.

THE POSSIBILITIES

[therealvinelle]

In book 6 the memories involving the Gaunts involve dialogue in Parseltongue. Given that Dumbledore understands what's been said do you think he's secretly a Parselmouth too or did he just study it / use some magical translator?

Given how fond Dumbledore is of jumping to conclusions, I don't think the man needs to understand a damn word to decide he knows exactly what just occurred. Besides, the Gaunts, bless them, weren't subtle. Morfin revealed something Merope desperately didn't want him to, something to do with the handsome Muggle he'd attacked, and whatever he said provoked Marvolo into attacking her in front of a Ministry worker. Shortly after Merope seizes the opportunity to elope with said Muggle.

It's one of those scenes in a foreign language movie you can more or less follow even if it isn't subtitled.

That being said, it's perfectly possible Dumbledore is a Parselmouth. The Gaunts became an incestuous mess, yes, but Tom Riddle is proof that only one parent carrying the gene is required. All it takes is one Gaunt having a child outside the family (and remember they weren't always what we meet in the shack, for all we know they had a proper house they were evicted from a year before Bob Ogden came to visit. We know less than nothing about these people) and you have someone carrying the gene. So, sure, Dumbledore could have been a Parselmouth, but that's not to say I believe that he is or that he would need to be to understand what Morfin said to Marvolo.

[watermelon-juice-art]

Personally, I’d like to think that Harry’s paseltongue doesn’t disappear with Voldemort’s death.

Here he is with a cute lil snake!!<3

[dvinaamesca]

Heir of Slytherin 🐍

Look at his veins👩‍⚕️

[teacup-gathering-itself]

I think it’s so not cash money that Harry didn’t have weekly meetups with the garden snakes from the greenhouses esPECIALLY after it was revealed he was a Parselmouth. Like my man could have been having a whole debrief on the NONSENSE he had to go through each week, and gotten very snake-y advice in return. (Luna would somehow catch on to this and be an honorary member of the Snake Club)

God it’s so stupid, they think I put my name in the Goblet of Fire. I didn’t. Why can’t they undo it?

You should eat the fire goblet. Swallow it whole.

Just find a good shadowy spot and hide. They’ll never find you if you hide and are quiet.

Bite the people who upset you.

Thanks guys, I think I’ll try something else first, but good backup plan. How is the hunting mice going?

Mice! Very tasty!

Lots to hunt.

Very nice warm rock house you live in. Scraps mean mice which means good food for snakes.

Very good, many mice.

Awesome.

[aesthetic--mood]

Salazar Slytherin Aesthetic

[hogwartseighthyear]

i’m such a sucker for fics where harry has a pet snake or multiple pet snakes and he just goes full blown snake whisperer bc i really wish his parseltongue abilities were utilized more in canon like it’s so fun