NOTE: I have decided this would all be more manageable as
discrete caches rather than as a series, so I am starting the
archiving process.
The other caches will be findable until the end of Feb '12 to give
everyone a chance to find them.
Anyone who finds the remaining 5 caches can email me for the final
co-ords so that you can finish the series.
Some caches will be replaced with new hides without the HP
theme.
Thanks all for dropping by over the last year and a half
:)
Nagini is the sixth Horcrux in the Harry Potter series, and is
the sixth (currently the fifth) cache of seven in this Harry
Potter-themed series.
Inside each of the seven caches is part of the co-ordinates for
the puzzle cache (GC2ATK8). Find the horcruxes, destroy (log) them
and then defeat (log...) He Who Must Not Be Named.
This replacement container is a key holder.
A horcrux is receptacle in which a Dark wizard has hidden a part of
his soul for the purposes of attaining immortality.
Nagini, Voldemort's pet snake, is introduced in the first chapter
of The Goblet of Fire and is described as a long green serpent. As
with his diary, Voldemort intended Nagini to be a tool as well as a
safeguard to his immortality. Nagini is killed by Neville
Longbottom in the final chapter of The Deathly Hallows.
Voldemort is able to communicate with Nagini due to his ability
to speak Parseltongue, the language of snakes. Readers are first
introduced to Nagini when the snake alerts Voldemort to the
presence of an eavesdropping Frank Bryce, an old gardener who had
worked for the late Riddle family. During the fourth year Harry
spends at Hogwarts, Voldemort's temporary body is sustained by
Nagini's venom, harvested by Peter Pettigrew. In Harry Potter and
the Order of the Phoenix, Harry takes a direct viewpoint of
Nagini's attack on Arthur Weasley in one of his dreams, feeling
that he (Harry) himself is the snake. Albus Dumbledore believes
this to be due to Harry's special connection to Voldemort, with
Harry's witnessing the attack by virtue of the fact that
Voldemort's mind "happened to be" in Nagini at the time. This is
the first indication of Nagini and Voldemort's deeper connection,
having the ability to share each other's thoughts, and share them
with Harry as well.
In the final book, Nagini consumes Charity Burbage, a Hogwarts
Muggle Studies professor, after the Killing Curse is used on her.
Nagini is later placed inside the body of Bathilda Bagshot by
Voldemort, and uses the hiding place to launch a surprise assault
on Harry when he visits Godric's Hollow. Because some snakes can
sense heat and movement in a way humans cannot, Nagini is able to
detect Harry and Hermione even when they are under the Invisibility
Cloak. After discovering that Harry is searching for his Horcruxes,
Voldemort places Nagini into a protective magical cage to prevent
her from being killed, but still uses her to kill Severus Snape by
expanding the cage over and on top of him. When Harry is apparently
killed by Voldemort, Nagini is released from the protective
enchantment and is draped around Voldemort's shoulders during the
Death Eaters' victory march back to Hogwarts. After Neville
Longbottom openly defies Voldemort, Voldemort punishes him by
forcing the Sorting Hat on his head and setting it on fire. The
Death Eaters are then attacked and a battle ensues, and Neville
pulls Godric Gryffindor's sword from the Hat, as Harry had done in
Chamber of Secrets, and beheads Nagini.
Since she was Voldemort's last remaining Horcrux, her death sets
up the series' climactic duel between Voldemort and Harry Potter.
With no Horcruxes remaining and rendered mortal, Voldemort's death
in that duel is final.
Nagini's name may be derived from the Sanskrit "Naga," meaning
snake. The suffix "ini" is affixed to indicate that the subject is
female. Hence, "Nagini" in Sanskrit may mean "female snake."