[HPforGrownups] Re: Nagini: If she's not a Horcrux, what the heck is she?

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 172006

"k12listmomma"
> it seems to me that the Brazilian
>> Python was the snake at the zoo- the one Harry set on Dudley.
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> Lisa:
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> No, I do have canon for that.  In SS, it specifically references that
> snake as a boa constrictor.
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> And Harry didn't set the snake on Dudley.  He unintentionally set the
> snake free; the snake didn't go after anyone.

Shelley again:
Ok, you are right and wrong- it was a boa constrictor, but when Hagrid is 
asking Harry if he had ever made things happen when he was scared or angry, 
he remembers the boa incident as "setting a boa constrictor on Dudley".

SS, Chapter 4
"... and the very last time Dudley had hit him, hadn't he got his revenge, 
without even realizing that he was doing it? He had set a boa constrictor on 
him."

Word for word, it was Harry's thoughts, not my interpretation of it. Even 
though the snake didn't go after anyone, it's Harry's recollection of the 
event later that I am going by.

Shelley