Nagini

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No: HPFGUIDX 31818

Katze wrote:
> I think it's impossible to suckle from a snake anyway, because they
> don't have teats.

suckle:  v. (-led, -ling, -les) /--tr./  1. To cause or allow to take 
milk at the breast or udder; nurse.  2. To take in as sustenance; 
have as nourishment.  3.  To bring up; rear; nourish; foster.

:-)

I'm just a geek with a dictionary.  Check out definitions 2 and 3 
specifically, and 1 unconventionally.  Sometimes I cause words to 
forge new waters, instead of sticking with the common understanding; 
however, the relationship between Nagini and Voldemort was, in fact, 
one of suckling, as Nagini provided the sustencance which Voldemort 
took in as nourishment before he could be 'weaned,' i.e. survive on 
his own as a complete being able to provide for itself.  It's an 
unconventional case of suckling, to be sure, but the reason I chose 
that word is because, besides the literal meaning, it also implied a 
sort of (in this case twisted) nurturing, familial, intimate 
relationship, which I also saw between them.  Which, kinda ick, but 
still.

Mahoney
off to be more geek