Snape's AK Failed!!!/Nagini as Horcrux/Lily's eyes

[o_caipora]

No: HPFGUIDX 134502

"snipsnapsnurr"  wrote:
> If you are going to go to all that trouble to protect 
> yourself from death, why would you make a horcrux out of a living 
> creature that is guaranteed to die? I'm not even convinced that 
> Nagini really is a horcrux, by the way. We haven't actually been told 
> that she is. We have just been told that Dumbledore thinks she is.

Snakes and immortality go way back. IIRC, Gilgamesh gains the secret
of eternal life, but drops it and it's eaten by a snake. The snake's
shedding of its skin is a sign of rejuvenation/immortality. And
Slytherin's snake lived under Hogwarts, surviving a thousand years:
not forever, but certainly a long time.

 - Caipora