'Snake' on breastplate (Was: Book Covers)

[Peter Wagner]

No: HPFGUIDX 166893

> Marion

> A 'snake' with a birdbeak is (by the looks of it) a Basilisk. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilisk)
> The basilisk has a rather interesting history. The name itself means 'little king' because it was originally described by a
Roman author as a snake with a 'drawing' of a crown on its head.
The Roman/latin name for the basilisk therefore is a 'regulus'...

Peter J Wagner:

Unfortunately, Rowling's basilisks have little in common with the beaked version, having a head like a normal snake insofar was we
can tell.

Still, what we really need is a prior picture of a basilisk by GrandPré: she might not have drawn what Rowling described.

Some people have speculated that Slytherin's Tomb would be a place where Voldemort might hide a Horcrux.  Unfortunately for this idea, there is zero indication that such a place exists!

However, it might be expected to have such things in it.

Peter J Wagner