yall i just found the funniest thing on the harry potter wiki
There’s also the general problem with the idea of speaking Parseltongue.
Snakes are deaf.
maybe JK Rowling don’t know anything about snakes
Lots of folks in the notes pointing out snakes are not technically deaf - you’re right! They’re not. But I’d like to point out that having a creature that hears largely by vibrations in the ground through their bones communicate via a hissing language that would be nigh-inaudible for them due to a lack of carried vibration (as opposed to, y'know. Normal speech, which has a glottal weight to it) is still a major oversight. Snakes are the LAST animal that would try to communicate through language in that way. It’s like the hardest type of sound to expect them to hear, unless you’re an inch from their head.
