I wanted to do an article on animals or "beasts" in the wizarding world and to firstly address the Occamy and its form in the film. But it could be something more...
An Occamy is a serpentine prehistoric-like bird with a roundish body, legs, and has a beak. The serpentine-like quality is the body itself or rather it is a three-part spine that is the neck to torso to tail.
Teal colored and from India and the far east, this spectacular bird can change sizes to fill the available space of a room.
Choranaptyxis (Kor-ana-Pix-is(c)).
In the movie, it drew on something for "theatrical" purposes. It took the appearance of the symbol of an Aztec God named Quetzalcoatl. It is more snake then bird but equally has feathers and wings. In the film, it is more of a snake.
Even thou it is more snake-like, it still retains much of the avian features of the original beast in the books. But as seen, serpentine is actually, in this case, an actual snake. Snakes are reptiles that, in this case, is much like raptors in that there are feathers. Snakes are Reptiles.
in the Wikia, under behind-the-scenes, it says the following: "It is currently unknown if Occamies, given their snake-like appearance, can speak Parseltongue." I find that statement odd as if it was indeed a snake. The idea here is that if it is a snake, then there must be the language of snakes involved in their lineage. A known Parseltongue snake is the Basilisk, and of course, Harry spoke to a Boa in the Zoo, and lastly, Isolt Sayre spoke to a Horned Serpent. (https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Occamy)
It is also known that the animal is related distantly to the American beast, the Snallygaster. The Snallygaster is a reptilian bird (part-reptile, part-bird) with razor teeth that could slice, feathers, and bulletproof. It is not a dragon, least in this rendition, and could be used for wand cores. The actual bird is more of a chicken that came to the new world from Germany and had one eye. In the wizarding world, beasts appear to be what it looks like truly from the No-Maj world, in this case, it is a relative of the Occamy. But could it be?
In the wizarding world, it could happen that two animals, for whatever reason, may end up mating one another. What I speak of is a flaw in the natural order of things. In the world, a ghoul and a Demiguise mated and gave birth to a bear-like animal in America called Hide-Behind that is seen as a "common Garden Bogart" who can hide in the shadows. In the case of the beast here it is similar to the real-life cryptid, "Honey Island Swamp Monster" a Chimp-Aligator beast. A chimpanzee mated with an alligator. In the case of the Snallygaster, it is that an Ocammy mated with an unknown reptile. The unknown is as far as I can say truly despite the Illustrated Edition take on it being that of an Aligator. I then assume that animal so it can retain the Ocammy Serpentine-like appearance. (https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Snallygaster?file=Snallygaster.jpg) Given this detail, I theorize that this is common in the animal kingdom with such abnormalities in the design of nature. If something went wrong, one animal could end up mating with an entirely different species. Which is Common in the Animal Kingdom. Ultimately, it means that every snake is related to one another through these situations of mis-endeavors. So an Occamy, Runespoor, Horned Serpents ... all are related by this situation. But if one snake is related to another which then is related to another and so on, is there a Prime Beast in the lineage? Is there a father to all of these snakes? Could the Ocammy be related distantly to the Basilisk?
If one were to track the lineage back from one animal to the one before, there should be a single, perhaps single, breed of snakes. Which may be hard if there are also Muggle Animals entwined into the magical blood of Beasts. How would a three-headed snake be born? it could be a misfortune or other. Like, let's say the parents were a snake and a three-headed dog. But while I am saying snakes and non-magical animals like alligators, another sperentine-like beast is a Dragon. This comes to the question of why many thought the Snallygaster was a dragon? Is it not because they are snakes? Reptiles? So then the family of Magical Snakes, Dragons, and Muggle species of animals are all related by blood and abnormalities. Apart from the features or physical appearance, the color would be a sign as well of distant relations. A dragon mating with a bird... then the Occamy is born. Perhaps that is. Directly it could simply be a bird and a snake but all the same, dragons are somehow involved in this large family. Dragons are also reptiles. Scales, feathers, wings,... But then if they are all related by these features, what about the Basilisk?
The Basilisk is a snake through and through, originated in Greece, and has the power of Petrification. Herpo the Foul, a dark wizard in Greece, was the first to breed them. Then other dark wizards followed. Herpo was a Parstletongue. The making of a Basilisk is quite simple, one would need a toad and a.. chicken egg. Place the toad in the egg and a snake is born. How? A baby chicken is in need of a mother chicken, not because it gave birth to it, but the energy from it would help the baby grow to be one. There is an energy that flows back and forth between the adult chicken and the child and back. This energy impacts its form. When one places the toad over the chicken, you get a result of abnormalities; the toad energy is affecting the chicken. The energy of two different species, a bird and amphibian, is merged into a Reptilian Bird. How a snake is born is anyone's guess. But the snake was created from the DNA and shape of a bird. Even thou there isn't any evidence physically.
At the end and an overall view is this: A Basilisk is born from a chicken egg and toad. Then one Basilisk wanders off and mates with other species of its kind, therefore given birth to more snakes. But one Basilisk, if not just another, through a flaw in the habitual design, mated with other animals that it shouldn't be. Thus Runespoors, Horned Serpents, and etc are born. One serpent then took a bird to mate and an Occamy is born, who then mated with a reptile. The Birth of the Snallgastor is taken to action. At some point, a lizard and a flying creature mated and dragons were born. Animals do intend to respond to something outside of its peripheral bloodline. It also reflects the Pure-Blood ideology from an animal perspective that in some ways is also half-bloods or Half-Breeds.
If this is true, and all are related and related to the Basilisk as the prime species, then an Occamy could be capable of Parstletongue even without the inclusion of the film's portrayal. But if an Occamy is capable of it, then could a Dragon be capable?
Parseltongue is ultimately the "language of snakes", to put it simply from that it is dead no. But there is evidence it could be possible. Besides, Voldermort spoke to Nagini and she was never always a snake her whole life. Nagini transformed into a snake and the longer she was the snake, the more prominent. So over time, she develops the language as she can only make snake sounds. Voldemort then could talk to her. More then that, she loses her humanity over the years. So if a parseltongue could push the language in another way, it could be possible. If a Parstletobgue focused his or her power on a dragon and teaches him or herself and the dragon, why wouldn't it be possible?
Harry rose a few more feet, and she let out a roar of exasperation. He was like a fly to her, a fly she was longing for to swat; her tail thrashed again, but he was too high to reach now....She shot fire into the air, which he dodged....Her jaws opened wide....
"Come on," Harry hissed, swerving tantalizingly above her, "come on, come and get me...up you get now..."
And then she reared, spreading her great, black, leathery wings at last, as wide as those of a small airplane ---- and Harry dived." (HPGOF; CH20, P355-356)
Sounds like Harry was speaking directly to the Hungarian Horntail, which he actually is in wanting her (dragon) to chase him (Harry). He would be doing this unintentionally, which in most cases for anything. Unintentionally and without realizing it.
This brings into questions like: Was there a wizard or witch who spoke to dragons?
But as I said, it would be possible to talk to dragons if and only if a witch or wizard expanded it. Meaning while it is possible, not all breeds are capable of it if it was never taught or somehow grew into it like Nagini. Then again most things in the animal kingdom are inherently taught through instincts.
Even if they were not related, there would still be a point of origin and that point of origin is a chicken that blossomed to a snake; a Basilisk.
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