Ron can speak PARSELTONGUE?

It was the piece of Voldemort inside Harry that enabled him to speak parseltongue. Voldemort could because he was descended from Salazar Slytherin. Ron didn't actually speak parseltongue in Deathly Hallows either, he heard Harry Speaking it and merely imitated the Sounds. Harry let Ron and Hermione destroy a horcrux each cuz they helped to find them they had as much a right as him to destroy them. And no not everyone in the wizarding world can practice Parseltongue, only those who were born with the gift (not counting the case of Harry, he was different cuz he was a horcrux)

Ron heard Harry speak in parseltongue and Tom Riddle must'ave told Ginny how to open the Chamber through the diary. Also Dumbledore knew how to speak parseltongue as well. It's a language people can learn.

How To Speak Parseltongue

Even I was blown away by this revelation. It was so unbelievable. If we are to follow JKR's logic that anyone could just mock what Harry says and speak parseltongue, then yes, we could conclude that any wizard could do this.

But where's the sense in that? I thought that was a major error in the book. All throughout the books, it was only Salazar Slytherin and his heirs who could do this. Now all of a sudden, Ron can speak to snakes?

As far as Hermione and Ron destroying the cup in the Chamber of Secrets, Hermione had read in the book that she got from Dumbledore's office that the venom from a basilisk could destroy a horcrux. That's why they went on and destroyed it.

But what truly amazed me is that the remains of the snake was still down there in the chamber after all this time. You'd think with all those wizards at Hogwarts, someone would have at least burnt the thing rather than let it decay and stink up the school. :-)

Actually he mimicked what he heard Harry say and it took him some tries to get it right. But Harry can speak Parseltongue because of the curse that binded him and Voldemorte. Not just anybody could speak it.

I thought it pretty weird too...

Parseltongue, I perceived to be a gift...

Something the non-gifted ones couldnt really recognise...

But it looks like it can be imitated like any other language..

Ron seems to be a gifted impressionist(at several instances)...

Jo's shown that Parseltongue is a gift, but is learnable like Mermish and Gobbledegook

Ron just copied what he heard Harry do. He doesn't know parseltongue.

Ron said that he just imatated Harry when he spoke Parseltongue when they were in the forest destroying the locket/horcrux. I don't think he can officially speak it like Harry can though.

And, as JK Rowling said in an online chat a few days ago, Dumbledore could also speak Parseltounge. Therefore it is a learnable language, and Ron was just copying what he heard Harry do when he opened the locket.

Ron doesn't speak it, he just copies what Harry did. That being said, I'd assume anybody could copy what a Parselmouth says and it hold meaning.