Is it just me or does it seem like the part where ron speeks parsetoung is a tad hurried?

i mean, in the second book everyone goes on about how hard its supposed to be, and its apparently really rare to come across a wizard who can do it.

So how was ron able to just do it?

It's not that its hard, just a very rare gift to even have. Ron got to hear Harry use it on several occasions. He wasn't actually speaking it, just imitating a sound he heard.

what do you mean by "hurried"? Ron heard Harry use Parseltongue before, and in all fairness I didn't think it would be too hard to make a hissing noise. Besides, Ron only imitated the hising sounds of a snake, he didn't actually speak it. So it was enough to get into the Chamber, but it wouldn't be sufficient to, say, control the Basilisk or any other type of snake for that matter. And, actually, that was a brilliant idea of Ron's, using a Basilisk fang. Although-wouldn't the poison have dried up over the years since the Basilisk's death? I mean, it has been 5 years... Any ideas on why the poison's still in the fangs?

I agree that it mustn't be too hard to imitate a hissing sound. As for the poison, isn't basilisk venom extremely toxic. The teeth would still have a trace of poison even if the substance had dried up. Think of it like crust or rust.

It's not actually difficult to imitate most anything when it comes to languages. I listen to a lot of music in other languages and imitation is easy when you get used to hearing the same thing over and over again. He's not so much speaking it as imitating. ((Like Dainsie and Ginny_Weasley_Potter said))

And the basilisk's venom is very concentrated and potent. They also left the... giant snake body in the Chamber. Five years wouldn't be long enough for it to fully decay or anything like that. I'm not sure exactly where the venom sacs would be for a basilisk, but I doubt they would have dried out quite yet.

I think even if the poison did dry up (which I don't think it would have - the Chamber was underground etc so I think it would have preserved it well) it would have been enough that the fangs had once contained it and there was a trace on it - like with the sword a bit.

Ron heard harry speaking parseltongue so ron just imitated him. I can imagine it's not that hard to imitate a hissing noise