Nagini?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 146197

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
>
> Sonja wrote:
> > <snip> Nagini is a viper, and based on the description (diamond
> pattern and about twelve feet long) is probably a type of King Cobra.
>  According to my sources that species is the longest known viper
> > 
> > http://www.szgdocent.org/resource/rr/c-cking.htm
> > 
> > Or she could just be a magical snake, but definitely not the one
> Harry set free.
> 
> Carol responds:
> I agree that Nagini is not the (apparently) male boa constrictor that
> Harry set free, which was probably recaptured by zookeepers as it
> attempted to make its way from London to Brazil. Good luck with that
> one, Amigo!)
> 
Pippin:
I can't find the reference, but years ago I read an interview with JKR
in which she said the one thing she would change if she could is that
she didn't know when she wrote PS/SS that Boa Constrictors weren't
poisonous. So maybe the boa from PS/SS was originally intended to
be Voldemort's familiar in later books, and JKR had to change it.

Pippin