Bathilda + the snake

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 176872

> Ceridwen:
> 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.

>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!

Jen: Oh dear, you got all *that*?!  I was trying to figure out really 
important stuff like why Harry walked on his wand but not the body, or 
why Nagini's tail didn't whip the body around, lol.  It was weird how 
the body was 'collapsing' as Nagini came out 'from the place where the 
neck had been.'  Sort of like it was the skin only - urgh.  Maybe that 
explains why no one tripped over it.  Am I slow on the uptake with this 
part, too?

Jen, feeling like a dunderhead.