Bathilda + the snake

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 176871

 
> 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.


Potioncat:
That's what I got too, after I got over the revulsion of what I had 
just "seen." Now I need to go find out who first posted that she was an 
Inferius. Poor DADA!Snape---all that time on Inferius vrs Ghosts and we 
still didn't learn what we needed to know!


I agree with inferi, but I'm not sure JKR would ;-)