Bathilda + the snake

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 176870

Potioncat:
> Someone else posted that Bathilda was an Inferius (Inferia?) and I 
> smacked my head. But if you didn't get it either, I don't feel so 
bad. 
> I think your last bit is correct, She's an Inferius with Nagini in 
the 
> body. I don't know how Inferiuses (if the pleural of Patronus is 
> Patronuses...)are controlled, but I've never quite worked out the 
long 
> term Imperius either.

Ceridwen:
I think the plural is "Inferi".

Don't laugh, all right?  At least, don't tell me if you do.  I read 
the scene, I got the idea that Bathilda had been dead for some time 
(the stench), I got that Nagini was in her animated corpse lying in 
wait for Harry to show up, I understood that it was Nagini who saw 
through the cloak, not Bathilda (she also saw through Moody's cloak 
in OotP), I understood that Bathilda was an animated corpse because 
Nagini couldn't walk like a woman and so needed the corpse to keep up 
the pretense, but I never once thought that Bathilda was an Inferus.

Ceridwen, who sometimes does need sledgehammers.