[HPforGrownups] Questions on Nagini

[Scott Santangelo]

No: HPFGUIDX 74963



michaelkgidlow <Veritas771 at hotmail.com> wrote:
Michael Gidlow said:

I've never seen anything on this, but does anyone have any theories on Nagini? In Hinduism, the Nagas (from which Rowling got the name) are celestial snakes that are often gods or divine beings. This would help to explain why Voldemort drinks her milk to stay alive. But my 
question is, what is she exactly? Is she an animagi? Like so many characters from GOF, she disappears in OoP, unless she is the snake that attacked Arthur Weasley. Any ideas about her?

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Did you read somewhere that JKR got the Nagini thing from Hinduism? I thought she might have been influenced by Rudyard Kipling's Rikki Tikki Tavi story, where the family mongoose kills a family of cobras . . . "just under him whizzed by the head of Nagaina, Nag's wicked wife." Still the Hindu influence, certainly. Beyond the name, I don't think Nagini is anything other than a big snake that's obedient to Voldy.

owlery2003



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