Nagini: If she's not a Horcrux, what the heck is she?

[Lisa]

No: HPFGUIDX 172010

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "k12listmomma" 
<k12listmomma at ...> wrote:
> 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.
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Lisa:

However, we were witness to the actual incident, and that's not how 
he saw it happen:

SS, p. 28-29:

... What came next happened so fast o one saw how it happened -- one 
second, Piers and Dudley were leaning right up close to the glass, 
the next, they had leapt back with howls of horror.
     Harry sat up and gasped; the glass front of the boa 
constrictor's tank had vanished.  The great snake was uncoiling 
itself rapidly, slithering out onto the floor.  People throughout the 
reptile house screamed and started running for the exits.
     As the snake slid swiftly past thim, Harry could have sworn a 
low, hissing voice said, "Brazil, here I come .... Thanksss, amigo."
     The keeper of the reptile house was in shock.
     "But the glass," he kept saying, "where did the glass go?"
     The zoo director himself made Aunt Petuia a cup of strong, sweet 
tea while he apologized over and over again.  Piers and Dudley could 
only gibber.  As far as Harry had seen, the snake hadn't done 
anything except snap playfully at their heels as it passed ... "

So there was no malicious intent on Harry's part ... no "intent" at 
all, truth be told, no matter how Harry categorized it later.  He 
didn't "set" the boa constictor on him anymore than he "made" his 
hair grow back after haircuts.