Snakes (was: Dumbledore)

[jeckswolf]

No: HPFGUIDX 43623

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Merriman Vicki" <VMerriman at f...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at e..., "Brian Dorband" <dorband at u...> 
> wrote:
>  
> > and every one since has been EVIL!  Or, perhaps THAT snake WAS
> > Nagini, 
> > and he went off to rendezvous with V, perhaps alert him that 
Harry 
> > Potter was a parseltongue.  If that's the case, then Nagini, as 
> 
> No, i don't think it was the same snake.  The boa was too cheerful, 
> if a snake can be considered cheerful.  He winked at Harry, and he 
> was resignedly rolling his eyes about the Dursley glass tapping.  
> He/she just seemed like too nice a snake.  He seemed excited about 
> the possibility of seeing Brazil.
> 
> Oh, just thought of this.  Nagini is milked, implying she is 
venomous 
> and that that's what keeps V alive until he gets his body, but the 
> boa is a constrictor, and its teeth wouldn't work like that; So 
they 
> can't be the same.
> 
> vicki

I agree, Nagini cannot possibly be a boa. Her venomous fangs are a 
giveaway. Now for the basilisk, it is in no way related to the 
aforementioned Nagini. A Basilisk is, and I quote from Fantastic 
Beasts and Where to find them,  created from "a chicken egg hatched 
beneath a toad", therefore not related to any other snakes. Another 
thought, the basilisk Harry faced was most probably a male. The males 
have extremely venomous fangs, and a scarlet plume on the top of 
their head.