Nagini

[Katrina]

No: HPFGUIDX 84067

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Iggy McSnurd" 
<coyoteschild at p...> wrote:
*snippage*

> it can be logically deduced that Nagini is most likely a female 
King Cobra.

Katrina:
I think you're on to something, Iggy.  The name "Nagini" always put 
me in mind of Kipling's "Rikki Tikki Tavi."  There, the female cobra 
was named, "Nagaina."  I think there's enough similarity to be 
comparable.  And she was clearly portrayed in the story as Evil.  In 
fact, far more deadly and dangerous than her mate. "Now I have 
Nagaina to settle with, and she will be worse than five Nags"

For any who are interested, the complete text can be found at 
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/usr/mongoose/www/rtt.html

Hasn't Kipling been referenced before in discussing JKR?  I seem to 
remember that he was.

Katrina