By just about everything we've got to go on, Nagini is some breed of cobra. (She certainly has a cobra's name.) However, cobras rarely are bigger than 6-7 feet. Nagini is described as being 14 feet long. Ergo; she has probably had her size enhanced magically.
There was good reason for this. BabyMort was being kept alive by a "formula" of which one of the main components was her venon, and a larger snake would produce more of the necessary venom.
As to how she was persuaded to acompany them to England. They would not have taken the time to persuade. I suspect the poor beast is under a form of Imperius. And now that Tom no longer needs her venom to keep himself alive, he amuses himself by making her behave like a pet dog.
Given the way his uncle would torture the snakes that he lured close enough to get a hold of, this is at least a sort of improvement.
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Re: snakes in HP books
Date: 2006-11-17 09:51 pm (UTC)There was good reason for this. BabyMort was being kept alive by a "formula" of which one of the main components was her venon, and a larger snake would produce more of the necessary venom.
As to how she was persuaded to acompany them to England. They would not have taken the time to persuade. I suspect the poor beast is under a form of Imperius. And now that Tom no longer needs her venom to keep himself alive, he amuses himself by making her behave like a pet dog.
Given the way his uncle would torture the snakes that he lured close enough to get a hold of, this is at least a sort of improvement.