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As far as I know, we haven't been given that information. I still think it is hard to call any animal good or bad in the same sense we think of the word simply by the nature of many animals. Many animals, unlike humans, have no choice but to kill to eat, yet I don't feel that makes them bad or evil. It is simply in their instincts and nature. Snakes especially often seem to fall victim to the kill or be killed life, which is why I believe so many of them often turn to cannibalism to stay alive. If that is all they can get, then so be it. They shouldn't have to answer to the same rules we do, I think.
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A snake like a Cobra is known to get 28 years old . So it's certainly possible that Nagini was something like a baby when Voldemort met her for the first time and she grew and grew.
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To get to another topic: What was her relationship to the other Death Eaters? How did they reacted to her? Did they fear her? She was able to communicate with Voldy and could have told him things she secretly discovered.
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She could have been a spy on occasion, the DE must have know Voldemort and she could talk together, so they wouldn't have dared to say anything when she was around, but when they didn't see her...
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Oh yay, new questions!
I think Nagini's main role in regards to the Death Eaters was to instill a sense of fear. We saw Wormtail getting repeatedly "promised" to Nagini, and it is pretty evident that Voldemort was not above using this threat as a means to keep people in line and make sure they are busting their butts for him. I do believe that Nagini was used by Voldie to spy on the Death Eaters, and I think they knew this and it made them forever wary. I believe that Voldemort was able to keep her presence concealed if he wanted to, and I'm sure they knew this. It probably kept them all on their toes, especially at their new headquarters - Malfoy Manor. I couldn't help but think that Voldemort was partly referring to Nagini's presence when he made the jibe to the Malfoy's about their newest house guests.
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I think that the DE's hated Nagini, but couldn't display it. She could spy on them and give LV information, so they had to worry about both Nagini and LV. And, they knew that he might feed them to her if they really messed up - which, in the end, was a lot like what Nagini did to Snape.
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Do you think Nagini minded not being able to snack on him?
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Snakes don't have to eat that often, so if she had eaten recently she probably wouldn't have minded. They don't have teeth, they swallow their preys whole (eeks an image of Snape swallowed whole
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I think that, for large parts of DH, Nagini was just an extension of Voldemort or a tool for Voldemort. She didn't have too much "snake free will" left at that point.
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I wonder if Nagini was fed on a steady diet of humans after she met Voldemort or if she did eat normal snake food too. I can't remember if we ever see her eat anything else.
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I have a horrid image of Nagini swallowing a human whole, although that would be physically impossible for her to do unless her jaws were incredibly large (like a small crocodile's).
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We know what the bit of soul inside Harry did to him, Harry however contrary to Nagini could (to a certain extent) rid himself from it if he really wanted. Nagini being an animal with a different kind of working conscience probably reacted in another way then Harry. Nagini of course was almost constantly in Voldemort's presence. She couldn't escape from Voldemort and the influence of the soul like Harry could. Quote:
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It's awful but I think that an anaconda sized snake could do it, on occasion you see pictures pop up from big pythons or other big snakes that swallow crocodiles. Usually they don't survive that though.
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Anyway, it's true normal snakes would have problems swallowing an adult human whole. I saw a show on TV where a python killed and tried to eat a full-grown man. It couldn't get past the shoulders. I'm unsure if normal snake rules apply here, though. Assuming Nagini was just a normal snake before Voldemort, I always felt she could have been a very large python type snake that Voldemort used magic on to get even bigger and venomous (since large pythons are about the right size, can constrict humans to death and try to eat them, but they're not venomous). Again, that's just what I think might have happened and I could be wrong.
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I feel like I should mention here that Dumbledore had said it was dangerous to use animals as horcruxes because they can move and think for themselves. I think this points us toward Nagini still having had some of herself and some control over herself. I just think it meant she was more easily controlled than she would have been by Voldemort.
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