Bathilda + the snake

[marion11111]

No: HPFGUIDX 176873

> > 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,
> 
> >Potioncat:
> > That's what I got too, after I got over the revulsion of what I had
> > just "seen." 
> 
> 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?
> 

marion11111:
Oh, thank goodness, someone else was trying to picture the practicalities of this.  At first, 
I thought she was an Inferius and somehow Nagini just appeared inside her neck (can a 
snake apparate?)  But that didn't really work, so then I  assumed she was just an empty 
Bathilda skin and Nagina was inside her the entire time.  But THEN I couldn't picture how 
that would work since IF Nagini was just wearing Bathilda like that guy in Silence of the 
Lambs wore his victims, HOW would she walk around?  Snakes don't balance on their tails 
and what would the tailless leg do, just hang there?  And what about the arms?  At that 
point I just gave up and decided to go along with the "it's magic" theory.