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Cobra
Species information
Skin colour	depends on kind of cobra
Related to	Snake
Distinction(s)	Flares it neck into a hood when threatened
Status	Extant

A cobra is a venomous snake, that when disturbed rear up and spread their neck in a hood in a characteristic threat display. In the 1992–1993 school year in the Duelling Club, Draco Malfoy used the Snake Summons Spell against Harry Potter and conjured a cobra.^[1] Padma Patil's boggart manifested one of these snakes. ^[2]

Behind the scenes

In both the film and video game adaptations of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Parvati Patil is given a giant cobra as a boggart rather than a mummy. LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 rectifies this by giving Parvati the correct boggart, and passing the cobra over to her sister Padma Patil.
In one edition of the book Chamber of Secrets it depicts a green cobra on the cover. This is either Draco's snake or a failing picture of the basilisk.
In the game The Quest of Sir Cadogan, included on the second disc of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, one possible encounter is a room full of cobras.

Cobra

Species information
Skin colour	depends on kind of cobra
Related to	Snake
Distinction(s)	Flares it neck into a hood when threatened
Status	Extant