So I stalked Serpentine Malfoy in the active list and saw she is a parseltongue, which had me thinking. If some wizards could talk to snakes, what's stopping us from having some wizards be able to talk to other animals? Like birds. It could be something that's not super common in the UK but maybe in another place of the world? Or something you can get with an against the odds card if it's something you're born with?

I also feel this sounds vaguely stupid but it's also interesting so xD

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If this was a thing it might actually entice me to use that AtO I've been hoarding for years >>

Like imagine you could talk to birds and were so annoyed about it and other characters were like "Oh I love waking up to a bright sunshiney day with all the birds singing in the trees" and your character is like "yeah they really never shut the fuck up, do they?!?"

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Can we please add this to the AtOs doc? I want this in my life.

  

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Magic by Lady!

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Alot of fiction I read involves gaining the gift of tongues, particularly from drinking dragons blood - so perhaps also their a potion out there (of they literally use a magical variety of the dragons blood herb or whatever the incense is made out of) and complaining because whilst there are animals that are gifted and clever a great many... Are not and their words are literally half the time food food? Mate? Or what's that what's that?

This has a mythical basis in both fairy tales and in Norse myths (the dragons blood thing).

  

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If this was a thing it might actually entice me to use that AtO I've been hoarding for years >>

Like imagine you could talk to birds and were so annoyed about it and other characters were like "Oh I love waking up to a bright sunshiney day with all the birds singing in the trees" and your character is like "yeah they really never shut the fuck up, do they?!?"

I'm thinking of the bit in Rick and Morty where it turns out the squirrels control the planet!
(Swearing)
https://youtu.be/ojZVpb0cVkE

  

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Hey fam! Before anybody gets TOO excited, the staff team just wanted to let you guys know we did discuss it, but think, for now, it would be best to stick to canon and leave it at snakes for the time being! Thanks for the ideas though!

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As an addition because it occurs to me now - would animagi have the ability to speak to animals, just their animal, or just their animal class (carnivorous mammal etc), only when transformed, or all the time or only to other transfigured beings.

It's kinda related? I only suggest this because how would the marauders talk ato each other when out on romps with Remus, and I feel like I remember Sirius Black talking with Crookshanks at some stage.

I'm now of course headcanoning that parseltongue came about from either a blood curse of some sort (hence the genetic component with the gaunt family) or a family who seemed to exclusively have snakes as their animagi selves and eventually began to pass down the ability to speak to snakes as a genetic a quirk even without transforming.... Or to fit with the stereotype that parseltongues are evil perhaps their ancestors had to do something bad/vile to gain the ability.

Anyway hope those musings make sense.

  

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