Nagini/basilisk/snake ramblings

[badgers' kin]

No: HPFGUIDX 219

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer 
<linsenma at h...> wrote:
I never was too clear if he could have actually become his own 16 yr 
old self again had Harry not saved Ginny.  


<me>
It seems that since he had already assumed *some* kind of physical 
form, a form indistinguishable from a real human form, Ginny's 
survival seems unnecessary to enable this; the important act was the 
stabbing of the diary within which his *memory* lived.  I wonder if 
the ONLY thing that would have worked was the fang of that particular 
basilisk -  THIS basilisk - is the "horror within" that the Slytherin 
heir would unleash to "purge the school of all who were unworthy to 
study magic."   This basilisk effectively killed the heir of 
Sltherin's memory!

Does that seem pretty profound, or am I reaching?!


Hail Hufflepuff!!
the Badgers' Kin

P.S. Thanks, Penny, for helping me get re-attached to the group <g>

And thanks to EVERYONE for their recommendations for fan-fics.  I
will 
get started on them ASAP.