[HPforGrownups] Nagini

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 192302

On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 5:03 PM, vanessa steck <vsteck at gmail.com> wrote:
> So I'm on facebook and I see a post quoting JKR saying that she was
> surprised that many people didn't realize that the snake Harry frees in SS
> is actually Nagini.
> I'd never heard this before. Has anyone else? I have no idea if that quite
> is actually JKR. I'd be surprised if that snake was Nagini, because it
> seemed like a cheery snake...but its also true that we never really get any
> backstory on the snake.
> Thoughts?

I don't think that can be right.  The snake in the first book is a boa
constrictor (it says so right on the label!) whereas Nagini is
obviously a poisonous species, though it's never specified which one.


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean56 at gmail.com>