Bathilda + the snake

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 176863

Allie:
> WHAT, exactly was happening with Bathila and the snake in Godric's 
> Hollow?  I'm not sure what type of magic we're supposed to think that 
> was.  Bathilda was an inferius being controlled indirectly and from 
> VERY FAR AWAY by Voldemort?  Bathilda was an inferius being 
> controlled by Nagini?  Bathilda was a corpse being animated by the
> snake inside its body, and not an inferius?  Nagini was LITERALLY
> inside Bathilda's body, waiting to slither out?  Nagina was inside
> Bathilda's clothing, and only seemed to be slithering out of her 
>neck?  

Jen:  I thought Nagini was possessing the dead body, using Bathilda's 
mouth to speak Parseltongue like LV used Harry's mouth while possessing 
him.  Could Nagini do that with her soul piece?  I figured it wasn't an 
Inferi because Harry and Hermione never talked about it as an Inferi.  
Now that you mention the idea it sounds plausible.  Maybe it's an 
animated corpse with Nagini inhabiting the body until the time is 
right, speaking Parseltongue through the bewitched lips?  I don't 
know!  Repulsive.