The Forked Tongue

He was told not to speak.
So he didn’t.
The only creatures that heard his voice were the snakes in his aunt’s garden. He knew she hated when he spoke, so he didn’t talk.
The snakes were happy when he spoke to them. So he continued to do so.
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Parseltongue is a Dark gift.
That much was known.
But what are the consequences of having the gift? What did the Parselmouths have to live through?
Really, no-one knows.
Harry J. Potter didn’t know either. Well, that is, until he started to speak when he was a young child. His first words were a strange mix between prolonged s’s and normal words for a child his age. His family hated him for it. How will the Wizarding World react?