Boa constrictor

"Point me!"
This article is about the species in general. You may be looking for the Boa constrictor at the Zoo.

Boa constrictors are large snakes that can be found in parts of the North Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa. On 23 June, 1991, Parselmouth Harry Potter spoke to a boa constrictor from Brazil. He unknowingly used underage magic by making the pen's glass vanish, freeing the boa. The boa then told him "Brazil, here I come. Thanks, amigo".

Behind the scenes

In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the boa constrictor from Brazil is changed to a python from Burma.
In the film, the snake blinks multiple times at Harry, despite the fact that snakes have no eyelids.
Also in the film, after the boa is freed the glass reappears trapping Dudley on the inside of the glass.
In the fourth and fifth film adaption of the books Nagini, Voldemort's pet snake, is portrayed as a Dumeril's Ground Boa.^{[citation needed]} In the film adaption of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince she appears as this in a flashback. This is succeded by a Reticulated Python in the last two movies.^{[citation needed]}