[HPforGrownups] Re: Who is that strange Maledictus?

[Karen Lewellen]

No: HPFGUIDX 193185

Not necessarily.
after all the creature could hibernate for very long spans of time. 
Consider   the basalt as an example.  Also our Nagini could be a 
descendant  of this one as well,  assuming she  is the beast in question, 
not  the Creator or charmer of what becomes Nagini...lots of 
possibilities. Which is what will make guessing such fun.
Have not been in much of a position to discover how Potter traditionalists 
feel about cursed child.
Kare

On Sun, 26 Nov 2017, steve at hp-lexicon.org [HPforGrownups] wrote:

> The long lifespan is the one "flaw in the plan," so to speak. Obviously that can be circumvented by Rowling simply saying that a beast resulting from this blood curse has a long lifespan or something like that, but there's no canon to suggest that yet. The other form of a blood curse that we're aware of is Astoria Greengrass's "blood malediction" in Cursed Child which actually killed her. And that's Cursed Child, so ...
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