Now, I'm not a herpetologist, "but"

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 115349


dungrollin wrote:
The Latin (scientific) name for the Bushmaster is Lachesis muta.

Lachesis is one of the fates - The Disposer, one of the three
Moirae. She measures the length of the thread of human life spun by
Clotho and determines its destiny.

Ooo-er.

muta – here I need a bit of help from you clever people, as my
Latin's rubbish. I think it comes from mutare, which means to
shift, change or alter.


Leah does a bit of Tonks-like derusting of her Latin:

A great bit of research here.  Muta- I think might mean silent, mute 
in fact.    Lachesis is also given as 'the apportioner, the drawer of 
lots'

As an aside, the Fates were also known as "The Weird Sisters"  -
perhaps Nagini is the animagus form of Celestina Warbeck!

Leah