[HPforGrownups] Inferi (was Re: What things that you wanted did you get? (was: Killing Harry)

[elfundeb]

No: HPFGUIDX 175850

Potioncat:
> So what was up with all the talk about Inferi in HBP? Why did JKR
give us that DADA lesson about Inferi? I thought it'd be very
important for someone to know that the animated body wasn't the
person at all.

va32h:
I wondered that too (why bother bringing up Inferi if she wasn't
going to use them). Maybe she just had too many action packed escapes
already. Despite the lengthy camping scenes, I really think DH has
more action and dramatic escapades than any other book.

Debbie:
JKR used Inferi in HBP; they inhabit the lake in the cave.  And I thought
JKR used at least one Inferi in DH.  As I read the text, Bathilda Bagshot
was an Inferius, which Dumbledore defined in HBP as a dead body that has
been bewitched to do a Dark Wizard's bidding."  It gets a bit confusing when
Nagini emerges from her neck, but I think the body collapsed at that point.
Nagini appears to have been wrapped around the body and hidden under
Bathilda's heavily muffled figure.  Certainly Nagini wasn't doing the
walking around Godric's Hollow.

At least that's how I read the scene.


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