Something else I'd have never understood before I read Harry Potter happened today. I was in the rest room at a mall, and the three teenaged girls standing in front of the mirror were having this conversation:

Girl 1: No, Snape couldn't speak Parseltongue.

Girl 2: But he was learning it!

Girl 3: No, no, he tried to do it, he thought he got it right, but he said the wrong thing.

Girl 2: Okay, that's right.

I'm sure they were talking about a fic, since nothing like that happened in the movies or books, although I guess there is some other canonical material that I've never read/seen.

I love fangirls.