[HPforGrownups] Questions on Nagini

[Kurt Douglass]

No: HPFGUIDX 74984




>From: Scott Santangelo <owlery2003 at yahoo.com>
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>Subject: Re: [HPforGrownups] Questions on Nagini
>Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 17:42:56 -0700 (PDT)
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>michaelkgidlow <Veritas771 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>Michael Gidlow said:
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>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.
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>owlery2003

>From Michael:

I didn't read that JKR got "Nagini" from Hinduism, but I saw it in a lexicon 
of Harry Potter names (availible at www.mugglenet.com).
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