Now, I'm not a herpetologist, *but*...

[arrowsmithbt]

No: HPFGUIDX 115344


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dungrollin" <spotthedungbeetle at h...> wrote:
> The only decent fit I can come up with is the Bushmaster. 
> (Bows most humbly to Kneasy).
> Five reasons:
> 
> 1. Bushmasters produce an enormous amount of venom. The average 
> yield of dried venom from a bushmaster is 411 mg (which is 
> apparently a lot compared to other species), allowing frequent 
> milking whilst Voldy is sick.
> 
> 2. Their heat-sensitive pits allow a bushmaster to detect a heat 
> difference of just 0.0036 degrees F (0.002 degrees C).   
> 
> 3. They get up to 12 feet long.
> 
> 4. Their patterning is most definitely diamond-shaped.
> 
> 5. Quoting Kneasy (bows again, for good measure) "the Bushmaster ... 
> can strike hard enough to break ribs."
> 

You forgot to look at Arthur's clinical picture - don't worry, that 
matches L. muta muta too: significant tissue damage around the site
of envenomation and coagulopathy - messed up blood clotting in other
words. 

That'd explain his bleeding problems *and* the difficulty of getting 
the (necrotic?) wound to heal.

Now where would Voldy get one  of these things?
IIRC there were rumours over a year ago about HP and the Pyramids
of something or other as a proposed book title. Most started thinking of
Egypt, naturally enough. But pyramid structures are also found in Central
and S. America. And if Nagini's identification is right...... Hmm. I wonder.

Kneasy