[HPforGrownups] Re: Now, I'm not a herpetologist, *but*...

[charme]

No: HPFGUIDX 115758


From: "justcarol67"
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> Carol responds:
> Snape tells Harry that the reason he saw from the snake's point of
> view is that Voldemort was possessing the snake at the time: "'You
> seem to have visited the snake's mind because that was where the Dark
> Lord was at that particular moment,' snarled Snape. 'He was possessing
> the snake at the time and so you dreamed you were inside it too'" (OoP
> Am. ed. 532-33). The only snake we know of that Voldemort could be
> possessing is Nagini. Granted, the animals that Voldemort possessed in
> the wild died (like Quirrell) when he left their bodies, but maybe
> Nagini, being magical, is immune to that fate, or maybe he didn't
> possess her long enough to sap the life from her as he did when he
> relied on the bodies of others for sustenance. There is, of course,
> the problem of how a snake, whether or not it was Nagini, got into the
> MoM (that's been discussed before but not resolved to my knowledge).
> It's possible, then, that Snape was wrong and that Voldemort is yet
> another unregistered animagus (who not surprisingly transforms into a
> snake as PP transforms into a rat). But, yes, there is canon for
> Voldemort possessing the snake that bit Mr. Weasley, if not for that
> snake being Nagini.

charme:

Thanks, Carol.  I recall Snape's words, but didn't see where anything
alluded to Nagini specifically.  Part of my question was WRT to the "3
bites" as described as canon:  wouldn't one bit have done the job?  I still
like to think the 3 bites allude to a clue in JKR fashion, however I suppose
anything goes, right? :)

charme