Changes: Python

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"Is this all real? Or has this been happening inside my head?"

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Pythons are a group of nonvenomous snakes found in Africa, Asia and Australia.^[1]

In 1991 Dudley Dursley with his friend Piers Polkiss wanted to see big, man-crushing pythons in the Zoo, while Harry Potter walked up to boa constrictor's tank, and unknowingly using Parselmouth, communicated with it.^[2]

Behind the scenes

Naginislither — The animated Nagini as a Reticulated Python

In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter spoke to a python from Burma. He accidentally freed the python and helped it go to Burma, while trapping his cousin inside the pen that was holding the giant snake. In the novel, the snake is a Boa constrictor from Brazil, not a python from Burma.
In the film adaptions of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Nagini, Voldemort's pet snake, is portrayed as a Reticulated Python. A Dumeril's Ground Boa portrayal preceded this in the fourth, fifth and sixth movies.

Appearances

Notes and references

↑ Python at Wikipedia
↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - Chapter 2 (The Vanishing Glass)

[wikipedia-1] Python at Wikipedia

[PS2-2] Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - Chapter 2 (The Vanishing Glass)

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 [[File:Naginislither.png|thumb|right|The animated Nagini as a Reticulated Python]]
-*In the [[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)|film adaptation]] of ''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]'', [[Harry Potter]] [[Parseltongue|spoke]] to a python from [[Burma]]. He accidentally freed the python and helped it go to Burma, while trapping his [[Dudley Dursley|cousin]] inside the pen that was holding the giant snake. In the [[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone|novel]], the [[snake]] is a [[Boa constrictor]], not a python.
+*In the [[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)|film adaptation]] of ''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]'', [[Harry Potter]] [[Parseltongue|spoke]] to a python from [[Burma]]. He accidentally freed the python and helped it go to Burma, while trapping his [[Dudley Dursley|cousin]] inside the pen that was holding the giant snake. In the [[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone|novel]], the [[snake]] is a [[Boa constrictor]] from [[Brazil]], not a python from Burma.
 *In the [[Harry Potter (film series)|film adaptions]] of ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'', [[Nagini]], [[Tom Riddle|Voldemort]]'s pet snake, is portrayed as a Reticulated Python. A [[Boa constrictor|Dumeril's Ground Boa]] portrayal preceded this in the fourth, fifth and sixth movies.