Why does Harry have Parseltongue?

Lord Voldemort passed the ability to speak and understand Parseltongue on to Harry Potter when he attacked him in infancy in 1981, inadvertently and unknowingly making him into a Horcrux.
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Is Harry Potter still a Parselmouth?

Once the part of Voldemort's soul that dwelled inside Harry was destroyed, however, Harry discovered he was no longer a Parselmouth; an added bonus of Voldemort's demise.
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Is Draco Malfoy a Parselmouth?

Harry and Draco were both parselmouths: one born, the other taught. They fought in parseltongue in front of the entire school on a near-daily basis, and the hisses and snarls were easily heard as threats. Except they weren't threats, or even angry.
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Is Ginny Weasley a Parseltongue?

No, absolutely not. Ginny was under Voldemort's possession each time she opened the chamber. It's Voldemort that can speak Parseltongue, not her.
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Why is Ron a Parseltongue?

It could be that there's a magical component to his understanding - he duplicated the innate magical ability of Parselmouths, and he uses that to translate. It's also possible that he learned how to interpret the language's phonemes.
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Was Dumbledore a Parselmouth?

Albus Dumbledore is not a true Parselmouth, as he can understand Parseltongue, but cannot speak it. Because this is — once again — a very rare skill, theories abound as to why the Hogwarts headmaster was able to understand the language of snakes.
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Is Ginny the heir of Slytherin?

The Heir of Slytherin turns out to be Ginny Weasley, who is being controlled via a magical diary that once belonged to Tom Riddle, AKA Voldemort.
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Is Harry heir of Slytherin?

Harry was never the true Heir of Slytherin through his family line. He was able to speak to snakes due to having part of Voldemort's soul embedded in his lightning-shaped scar (CS18, DH33). The "Heir" was the soul-bit of Tom Riddle left behind in the Horcrux diary.
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Who is the heir of Ravenclaw?

The Heir of Ravenclaw was an individual prophesized by the centaur Harmonthrep (Ajrand) to bring honor and glory to the House of Ravenclaw. The Heir of Ravenclaw was in time revealed to be Brian Dumbledore (Ajrand).
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Who is the heir of Gryffindor?

Harry is the Heir of Gryffindor (though his powers have been bound by his father when he was a baby), Neville is the Heir of Hufflepuff, Meghan (OFC, daughter of Sirius) is the Heir of Ravenclaw.
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Is Harry Potter a pure-blood?

Harry James Potter holds half-blood status in Rowling's imagined wizarding world because his mother is Muggle-born and his father is pure-blood.
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Is Voldemort related to Salazar Slytherin?

Through his mother's family, he is the last descendant of the wizard Salazar Slytherin, one of the four founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
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Who opened the Chamber of Secrets 50 years ago?

The Chamber was opened during the 1942–1943 school year by a sixteen-year-old teenager by the name of Tom Riddle, later known as Lord Voldemort. Through Merope Gaunt, his mother and a Witch, Riddle was the last remaining direct descendant of Slytherin, and he desired to see Muggle-borns driven from Hogwarts.
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Did Harry lose his scar?

Unfortunately, there are limits to dittany's healing properties, and the scars from both almost certainly never fully disappeared. More recently, Pottermore reported that the adult Harry was seen with a cut over his right cheekbone, which is certain to leave a scar.
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Is Albus Potter a squib?

As he discovered in his first year, Albus did not have a natural gift for magic and struggled in classes such as Potions. During his first flying lesson, Albus failed to demonstrate his flying skills and was subsequently nicknamed the "Slytherin Squib".
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Can Harry Potter's kids speak Parseltongue?

Yep. Harry could not speak parseltongue genetically either. The only reason he could was because of the horcrux in his head. Once that was gone he lost the ability.
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Who is hufflepuffs heir?

The Heir of Hufflepuff was none other than Cedric Diggory, who was well on his way to fulfilling the prophecy of the Heir of Hufflepuff when he was tragically murdered by Peter Pettigrew.
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Did the sorting hat belong to Godric Gryffindor?

The Sorting Hat was a sentient magical hat at Hogwarts that determined which of the four school Houses each new student belonged most to. These four Houses were Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. The Sorting Hat originally belonged to Godric Gryffindor, one of the four founders of Hogwarts.
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Who is the next heir of Slytherin after Voldemort?

Although it was briefly speculated in The Chamber of Secrets, Harry is not, in fact, a direct descendant of Salazar Slytherin, though he is still distantly related to him; Voldemort is descended from Slytherin and the second Peverell brother, while Harry is a descendant of the third.
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Is Tom Riddle half-blood?

Tom Riddle has a witch mother and a Muggle father, making him a half-blood wizard.
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How did Salazar Slytherin get a Basilisk?

Salazar Slytherin's basilisk was born in the chamber, as revealed by Aragog. Slytherin, in his spite of the his fellow founders' acceptance of muggle-borns into the school, left a basilisk deep in the chamber, in hopes that one day his true heir will unleash her to purge all they deem unworthy to study magic.
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Is the T silent in Voldemort?

In an exchange with a fan on Twitter, author JK Rowling confirmed that the 't' in Voldemort is actually silent, contrary to its pronunciation in the movies. It seems that the rogue 't' crept into the Dark Lord's name after the first movie, and was then repeated in the US audiobooks by voice actor Jim Dale.
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Who did Salazar Slytherin marry?

Salazar Slytherin, 927 - 1045

Salazar married Marjorie Slytherin (born Deshayes) on month day 953, at age 26 at marriage place. Marjorie was born on August 15 938, in França, dijon. They had one son: Marius Slytherin.
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What is Godric Gryffindor's Patronus?

A Patronus will take the form of an animal and reveal something about the personality of the caster. Rowling never specifically noted the form of Godric Gryffindor's Patronus. But it was very likely a lion. Gryffindor is said to have looked like a lion, and the animal symbol of Gryffindor house is also a lion.
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Are there any Hufflepuff Death Eaters?

In the world of Harry Potter as we know it, there are no recorded instances of a person who was sorted into Hufflepuff ever becoming a Death Eater, or any other kind of Dark Wizard for that matter.
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