Chapter 21: The Eye of the Snake

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...or THE KISS

Part the First: Professor Hagrid
Hagrid is back and ready to teach Care of Magical Creatures again. Well, you know, Hagrid-style. Hermione tries to assist him in preparing for classes, but to little avail. He introduces the thestrals to the gang, and until Umbridge shows up, he doesn't do a half-bad job. But then that sodding

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Hermione can hold her tongue when she's enraged

No, she can't. She's whispering insults. She's lucky that the Slytherins aren't near enough to rat her out.

She sought him out twice early on, but he hasn't made any effort to write her a note, to talk to her in the great hall, and he waits for her to initiate the conversation after the meeting. I think he still wasn't ready for more than admiring at a distance.

I think that's highly likely. As well, she's already spurned him once, I don't think he'd want to be seen as pursuing Cedric's girlfriend, and Harry just doesn't initiate relationships in general.

Did Voldemort put some of his soul into the snake, too, or is Voldemort possessing the snake to see through it's eyes, and Harry is tapping into that connection like a party line. (Remember those?) I think that has to be it, because Harry saw through Frank Bryce's eyes, and the owl he rode on, and you only have so much soul to spread around.

I think it's just that Voldemort was possessing the snake. If it's Nagini, she seems to be his familiar, and this seems a lot more plausible. However, Harry never saw through Frank Bryce's eyes: "And who had the old man been? For there had definitely been an old man; Harry had watched him fall to the ground" (17US, paperback). Harry also never saw from the owl's perspective, so while it's possible that Voldemort did possess the owl, I think that Harry's visions in GoF are of a different pattern than those in OotP.