Nagini

[rtbthw_mom]

No: HPFGUIDX 192305



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Margaret Dean  wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 5:03 PM, vanessa steck  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
>   
>
Pat here:

Years ago I read that JKR intended the snake in SS to be Nagini, but then she heard back from readers that a Boa constrictor squeezes its prey to death, whereas Nagini obviously bites and is poisonous. So - then the snakes became unrelated to each other, the snake from SS in the books to point out Harry's parseltongue ability. I won't guarantee this is true as I no longer have a source for this information, so take it for what it's worth.

~Pat