was Mrs. Figg, Crookshanks, now Nagini

[Celeste Chang]

No: HPFGUIDX 15627

I dunno about the Nagini thing. In response to another message, Nagini 
was certainly not twenty feet long... more like seven or nine feet. 
JKR seemed to make somewhat of a miscalculation with lengths with the 
basilisk- she mentions something about the skin of the basilisk in 
CoS- "the creature that had shed it must have been twenty feet long." 
Wasn't sure if there was an 'at least' somewhere in that sentence, but 
twenty feet isn't long enough for a serpent of the size that was 
described later on... it's like a telephone pole length, maybe a 
little more, and a serpent that long can only be so wide. The 
anacondas and pythons reach that sort of length, and when you imagine 
basilisk you imagine something much, much bigger in diameter and 
length than an anaconda.

But I digress. It is remotely possible that Nagini could be some sort 
of Nagah, able to shift between a half-serpent and complete serpent 
state, maybe even human form, but considering her behavior so far, it 
seems like she is a normal serpent. You never know, however.

- Celeste

(snip)
 > "Snakes are a symbol of healing and primal energy. In art, the 
Naginis 
> are figures of beauty. Vishnu reclines on the serpent Ananta 
> eternally. In Kerala, snakes are worshipped as guardians of the 
home; 
> and it is said that when a snake enters your life, there will be a 
new 
> birth of creativity and wisdom."
> 
> I wonder, just how evil can Nagini be? Maybe there is more to her 
than 
> even VOldemort knows?
> 
> --Suzanne