The idea of You-Know-Who owning Nagini... I'm pretty sure she just stuck with him out of respect. It's not like he went to the pet store and purchased her.
He possessed her and then kidnapped her when Wormtail found him, milked her constantly and made her into a Horcrux. That's not what I'd call sticking with someone out of respect.
Nagini stuck with him because he made her into a horcrux and a piece of his soul resided in her. He spoke parselmouth and could control her, although he seemed to really love her. There's a theory that Nagini was one of the animals he resided in while in phantom-form in Albania, and he made a horcrux of her when he killed Bertha Jorkins.
I haven't read the book but it sounds like Rowing took the name of the snake, Nagini, right out of Rudyard Kipling's Riki tiki tavi. Another thing she lifted from other authors.
Probably a tribute rather than "lifting." Fantasy genre is like music, you innovate on previous themes and make them your own. There are a lot of Tolkien influences and many others. She didn't invent witches, wizards, goblins, dragons, etc... HP is not my favorite, but I give her credit for a great original story and new innovations. I wish I had done it.
Naga is snake in sanskrit, and if you know anything about language or mythology or related subjects you realized words with the same roots have been used over and over, I cant tell you how often I can across it.
For me it is like saying, some made a fictional invention lets say that you can tast something from a distance. And calls it teletaster. And then someone saying "Ow !!! they stole/copied that from the television !!" the word tele has been used as a prefix for so many things, no one would call using tele stealing, not just because it has been used often, but because it means what it describes. "far" something far you use tele for, something snake like you use naga. Just check computer names, many snake like monsters have names with naga (or asp) in them. (you can learn a lot from game names, the devoloper usually dont just pick names but hail back on mythology or ancient history.It has a "downsde" though, many kids know names just from that instead of the actual thing).
If anything you could say Kipling stole it... the word nagini allready literally excisted. You can research the root naga and all the places it has been used in and mytholgies around it for hours yourself. But here is an interesting article which shows a part of it
Edit: sorry missed marlowe comment. same link ;) but it is not the source, the word is much older. I mean the word isnt taken from the myth (though kipling might have taken the word directly from it yes, if that is what you meant by source, not source of the word itself, but source of kiplings use). but yes one of the ways/place a words with the root naga is used.
Is it just me, or do these animal knowledge quizzes always have at least one question that's like, "You have no idea, but just start guessing as many countries as you can"? Luckily I actually got that one right this time.
Technically the tongue isn't the only bifurcated part of the snake's anatomy. Penis should also be accepted. (Sorry, I'm a reptile owner and know these things)
I hadnt heard about that, and usually I decide to look things up then, to learn more about it (or in some cases when it smells like bs to see if there is truth to it). But I think I'll pass this time, and just take your word for it and leave it at that haha.
Weird though how low the scores is, I thought everyone knew a snake had a split tongue, or maybe they didnt know what bifurcated is? I knew and english isnt my language and we dont have a word that resembles it (just a word resembling split or spliced) and it is not a romance language either. I think the word is easy to remember. Everybody ( would hope) knows the prefix bi- and furcated looks like forked. And that is actually what it means (and where it comes from so not just a mnemonic) It is forked (in two).
For me it is like saying, some made a fictional invention lets say that you can tast something from a distance. And calls it teletaster. And then someone saying "Ow !!! they stole/copied that from the television !!" the word tele has been used as a prefix for so many things, no one would call using tele stealing, not just because it has been used often, but because it means what it describes. "far" something far you use tele for, something snake like you use naga. Just check computer names, many snake like monsters have names with naga (or asp) in them. (you can learn a lot from game names, the devoloper usually dont just pick names but hail back on mythology or ancient history.It has a "downsde" though, many kids know names just from that instead of the actual thing).
If anything you could say Kipling stole it... the word nagini allready literally excisted. You can research the root naga and all the places it has been used in and mytholgies around it for hours yourself. But here is an interesting article which shows a part of it
Edit: sorry missed marlowe comment. same link ;) but it is not the source, the word is much older. I mean the word isnt taken from the myth (though kipling might have taken the word directly from it yes, if that is what you meant by source, not source of the word itself, but source of kiplings use). but yes one of the ways/place a words with the root naga is used.
There's a reason Voldemort is the second to least guessed answer
Weird though how low the scores is, I thought everyone knew a snake had a split tongue, or maybe they didnt know what bifurcated is? I knew and english isnt my language and we dont have a word that resembles it (just a word resembling split or spliced) and it is not a romance language either. I think the word is easy to remember. Everybody ( would hope) knows the prefix bi- and furcated looks like forked. And that is actually what it means (and where it comes from so not just a mnemonic) It is forked (in two).