austenpoppy:

We all know Ron is a talented mimic, but I don’t think we realize how much.

Ron succeded in imitating a person that he had only heard tell three short sentences. The first time and only time before he had had to listen to Pettigrew was in third year, so four years before the Deathly Hallows. And it really doesn’t count. In four years, you have all the time in the world to forget what a person’s voice sounds like.

So when he hears Pettigrew saying shakily “Stand back. Stay away from the door. I am coming in.”, Ron rediscovered what Pettigrew’s voice sounded like. Moreover, he was in a highly distressed state of mind, on the verge of breaking.

Yet he succeded in quickly mimicking this person, and it sounded good enough to fool a Death Eater used to hearing Pettigrew’s voice who practically lived under his roof, and even if he was not just behind Ron he was still in earshot and really attentive.

To understand the extent of Ron’s capacity, you have to know that professional mimics spend days listening and focusing on the person’s voice’s tone and accentuations and particularities to be able to imitate it.

Same thing with the Parseltongue. Ron heard a word said in a language made of whistling sounds, and he heard it twice, and one of those times was five years before the second, – in other words the first time doesn’t count; believe me, if you hear a Chinese word without really knowing his meaning when your sister is in danger of dying you won’t remember it five years latet – and the second one he was once again in a highly distressed state of mind – and yet he succeded in mimicking the sound months after.

He really has impressive observation skills.

Like, this boy is a genius ?