[HPforGrownups] Re: was Mrs. Figg, Crookshanks, now Nagini

[tobeybickle at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 15631

In a message dated 3/30/01 6:58:13 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
celeste_827 at yahoo.com writes:

<< 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. >>


Yeah, I think I confused their lengths.. Nagini is probably shorter that 10 
feet, and the Basilisk is much longer than 20. It's skin could have looked 2 
feet long because it dried and shrunk.