According to this, you have to be a Parselmouth to open the secret entrance in the bathroom. Since you IIRC can’t just randomly copy the sounds, this implies that Luna is a Parselmouth. However, this is seemingly contradicted by her making random snake sounds in front of HJPEV, who did not immediately react by treating her as a potential Voldemort clone.
No, in the 7th book Ron is able to open the Chamber of Secrets to get a basilisk fang just by copying the sounds Harry makes (it’s weird and pretty throwaway, easy to miss, but it happens).
Weird but self-consistent explanation: The Chamber of Secrets itself isn’t a Parselmouth. It’s not really using the Parseltounge API, it just uses the raw audio of the speaker.
According to this, you have to be a Parselmouth to open the secret entrance in the bathroom. Since you IIRC can’t just randomly copy the sounds, this implies that Luna is a Parselmouth. However, this is seemingly contradicted by her making random snake sounds in front of HJPEV, who did not immediately react by treating her as a potential Voldemort clone.
But maybe I’m missing something?
No, in the 7th book Ron is able to open the Chamber of Secrets to get a basilisk fang just by copying the sounds Harry makes (it’s weird and pretty throwaway, easy to miss, but it happens).
Weird but self-consistent explanation: The Chamber of Secrets itself isn’t a Parselmouth. It’s not really using the Parseltounge API, it just uses the raw audio of the speaker.
Well technically we only know that she spoke not Parseltongue, not that she couldn’t speak Parseltongue.
I can say lots of things in other languages, some things even with a passable accent. But I am fluent only in General American English.
[^1] https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Moaning_Myrtle’s_Bathroom