Harry Horcrux redux :)

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 155054

Carol: 

> Another point that I've made before but don't recall 
> any responses to is that Wormtail uses Nagini's venom 
> (along with unicorn blood) to create the potion that 
> creates Voldemort's fetal form, and "milks" her to provide
> more venom to sustain the monstrous fetus/infant. Nagini,
> IOW, is a surrogate mother to Baby!mort, a horrible parody 
> of the mother/child bond depicted elsewhere in the books. 
> (Will she die in a futile attempt to defend her monstrous 
> "child"?) Dumbledore points out the strength of the bond 
> between Nagini and Voldemort, which he thinks can only be 
> explained if she's a Horcrux,

houyhnhnm:

I didn't catch the significance of the snake being *milked* since that 
is the verb commonly used for harvesting venom from a snake, and I 
guess I didn't read the post where you pointed it out previously.  

I think you're right about Baby!Mort/Nagini as a horrible parody of the 
mother/child relationships depicted elsewhere in the books, but does 
she have to be  Horcrux for that to work? Could Nagini be LV's 
surrogate mother literally? Could she have birthed him?

Someone awhile back suggested that Wormtail might have used Bertha 
Jorkins' womb to bring Baby!Mort into the world.  I like it, but I 
think it's way too gruesome for the Harry Potter books (the editors at 
Time Warner would never allow, I'm sure, even if that is what was in 
Rowling's mind).  What if the snake was used instead?