Nagini the snake

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 158520

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "iumuggle" <amanda.fick at ...> 
wrote:
>
>  I have a quick question.  In the beginning of Goblet of Fire, 
Nagini
> needs to be milked to feed Voldemort?  What is that all about?  Why
> does he need to drink Nagini's milk?
> 
> iumuggle
>


Voldemort expands on this in the graveyard scene in GOF, describing 
his initial 'rebirth' in Albania:

"Wormtail was able to follow the instructions I gave him, which 
would return me to a rudimentary weak body of my own.....a spell or 
two of my own invention, a potion concocted from unicorn blood, and 
the snake venom Nagini provided".

Presumably, the Voldything that Harry sees in the graveyard, 
resembling some sort of inhuman child, needs continuing nourishment 
from the potion.  This is why Wormtail has to milk Nagini.  As a 
reptile, Nagini will not actually produce milk, but the term milking 
is used for the extraction of venom from the fangs (in muggle usage 
to produce antidotes to the venom).

The whole reappearance of Voldemort is presented as a kind of unholy 
birth.

Leah (who wants to know when and where (and how) Voldemort acquired 
his dear Nagini.