JK Rowling

[purplemuffin]

From what I remember, JK Rowling didn't know much about snakes. She just wanted scary--giant? Scary. Venomous? Scary! The most detail I remember about Nagini in the book was that she was huge, green, and venomous. It's kind of like she got stories of burmese and vipers mixed and turned it into a super snake of legends. Being the harry potter world, that's acceptable to me because, well, we don't see giants running around either, it isn't a stretch to say there would also be giant venomous maybe magical snakes running around the wizarding world as well, it's not like it's any weirder. Then when I saw the movies I figured "Oh, well, maybe they are trying to sort of base it on reality with a retic pattern but sort of make it different so it's venomous and a different species but they just did a bad job"

But that little quote about Nagini being the snake from the zoo is sort of silly, considering how clear it was stated that this male was born and raised in captivity. I can't imagine Voldemort getting away with using her as a horcrux either lol! I don't know about you, but if a bald freako killed someone and used my captive snake as a horcrux with magic I didn't think was possible, I think I might notice!


And Nagini now will always just make me think of MY boa constrictor!

[Kinra]

I haven't watched the movies in a while, but the internet says that in 4 and 5 she is modeled after a Dumeril's Boa.

[satomi325]

I was just discussing this with my friends.
For some reason I always associated Nagini in the books as a cobra. As does the majority of fanfiction.

In the books, it was labled somewhere that the zoo snake was a boa. I remember Harry telling someone he "once set a boa constrictor on his cousin". The movie zoo snake was a burm. Harry even asked about Burma.
Movie Nagini was a retic.

Everything is just so jumbled and confusing x_X


Well...I guess JKR can always use the excuse of magic....


And I agree with everyone. No way the zoo snake is nagini.

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[Gibber19]

The snake in the first link in the post concerning fangs had a head that looked like a carpet, but that's just me.

I think we can all agree that Hollywood won't be able to sneak something like this past us.

[SquamishSerpents]

guys. GUYS. chill!!!!!

it's just Harry Potter, they're supposed to be kids movies! and the books? i remember my teacher reading them out loud to the class in 4th grade (i'm only 23).

the only people that care about this fundamental flaw in the plot is us, lol

[SquamishSerpents]

oh yeah and to me, Nagini is one of my rainbow females

[Kinra]

the only people that care about this fundamental flaw in the plot is us, lol

I wouldn't say that's true. There are tons of fans out there who care about plot holes, we just care about the snakes related plot holes in the movies and the books.

I'll admit that I'm a HUGE Harry Potter fan and while I would say the earlier books were children's books, the later books were pretty dark and it's hard to call them children's book, I almost think it's a stretch to call them young adult books too.

[pigfat]

As many directors as these movies had, its probably tough catching all the stuff that we think is completely obvious, whereas an uneducated eye wouldn't really notice.

I suspect that Nagini was already a snake that had magical powers, and when Voldemort entered her to sustain his life, he realized that she was different than the other snakes because he didn't kill her after being in here. Thus forming the special bond between them....holy cow I am a nerd

[SquamishSerpents]

I wouldn't say that's true. There are tons of fans out there who care about plot holes, we just care about the snakes related plot holes in the movies and the books.

I'll admit that I'm a HUGE Harry Potter fan and while I would say the earlier books were children's books, the later books were pretty dark and it's hard to call them children's book, I almost think it's a stretch to call them young adult books too.

i'm a HUGE Harry Potter nerd too!

it's true that the last few books got a LOT darker but i also think Rowling may have had that in mind as she was writing and as her fans were growing up.

and yeah, i just think it's so funny that there is a thread speculating about her intentions and the lore behind Nagini! i love it!

[ajpolicastro]

Sorry to possibly revive a dead-post ... but I saw this and got a good kick out of it.

But in my opinion, this has to be of rumor, JK Rowling had no knowledge of snakes and probably didn't care. But more importantly then that the original quote starting this rumor could not have even come from jk herself.

http://thechive.com/2011/11/16/daily...ump-dar-36-14/

^^ see up in the original post, jk says that Nagini is the original snake from the first book which she calls "the philosophers stone"
... I'm no Harry Potter nerd but ... isn't the first book "the sorcerer's stone?

if JK Rowling is messing up the titles to her own books ... well ...