Is nagini a basilisk?

Nagini is one of many snakes featured in the series
After all, the great Basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets was a huge snake, bred with Salazar Slytherin's intent to murder Muggle-borns. The Dark Mark, Lord Voldemort's 'sign', was a skull with a snake tongue.
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What kind of snake is Nagini?

In the Goblet of Fire movie Nagini is animated to be a Burmese Python, essentially. In the later movies Nagini is portrayed as being identical to a Reticulated Python.
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How did Nagini turn into a snake?

Eventually, Nagini's blood curse permanently turned her into a snake. She was eventually acquired by Lord Voldemort. It is worth noting that she knew him when he killed Bertha Jorkins in Albania.
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How did Voldemort get Nagini?

During this time, Voldemort killed a witch called Bertha Jorkins, and J. K. Rowling confirmed it was through her murder that he turned Nagini into a Horcrux. But Nagini was reintroduced in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, which complicated the previous assumption that he'd met her in Albania.
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What creature was Nagini?

Nagini, it turns out, was actually a Maledictus—a witch with a blood curse that turns her permanently into a beast (in her case, a giant snake). In the film, the witch is played by Claudia Kim.
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The Story of Nagini (+ How She Met Voldemort) - Harry Potter Explained



Why did Nagini turn evil?

Nonetheless, despite her initially benevolent nature, Nagini's blood curse eventually turned her into a snake permanetly. Though it is unknown if she became evil as a result of that, or was turned evil as a result of Voldemort turning her into a Horcrux. As a snake, Nagini was completely loyal to Lord Voldemort.
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What does Nagini say to Harry?

When Harry and Hermione are on the first floor of Bathilda's house, Nagini (inside the corpse of Bathilda) tells Harry to "Come!" from the next room in Parseltongue. In reaction, Hermione jumps and clutches Harry's arm, and the two of them obey the command.
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Why is Nagini so loyal to Voldemort?

Nagini is loyal to Voldemort because he can speak with snakes. As a Maledictus, there probably isn't much time after the events in The Crimes of Grindelwald before Nagini falls to her blood curse, becoming a snake forever.
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Is Mrs Norris a Maledictus?

Norris being a Maledictus is her relationship with Hogwarts staff member and caretaker Argus Filch. The two are introduced together in both the Harry Potter movies and books.
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Why was Nagini in Godric's Hollow?

He left Nagini in her cottage as a trap, reasoning that Harry Potter may visit Godric's Hollow to see his parents' grave and their destroyed home, since he was no longer at Hogwarts and had never before had the opportunity to visit Godric's Hollow.
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Is the snake Harry set free Nagini?

Snake Harry set free and Horcrux victim

"There was a rumour that Nagini was the snake Harry released from the zoo in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. This was proven false, as Nagini is some type of viper while the snake in the zoo was a boa constrictor.
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How did Harry know Nagini was a Horcrux?

Harry did not know that he was one, and no one knew that Nagini was one. Dumbledore only revealed the truth about Harry and Nagini after Harry's "death", when they talked in the spirit realm. So at the time of the conversation, they only knew of one more Horcrux, the fifth one, the diadem.
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Did Voldemort know Nagini was a Maledictus?

Though it may later be revealed that the Dark Lord did indeed know that Nagini was a Maledictus, there's currently no indication that he (or anyone else) ever thought that she was anything other than a snake who was made into one of the Dark Lord's Horcruxes.
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Is Nagini a Animagus?

Nagini is a Maledictus, not an Animagus, as some have been saying. So, what is a Maledictus? Here's everything you need to know about Nagini's shocking origin. First things first, let's go over everything we know about the human Nagini in the Fantastic Beasts movies.
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Is the snake lady in Fantastic Beasts Nagini?

J.K. Rowling recently gave more insight into one of the most controversial characters in the Wizarding World: Nagini, who was known only as Voldemort's snake in "Harry Potter," but appears as a woman in the prequel series, "Fantastic Beasts."
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How are basilisks born?

The basilisk is alleged to be hatched by a cockerel from the egg of a serpent or toad (the reverse of the cockatrice, which was hatched from a cockerel's "egg" incubated by a serpent or toad). In Medieval Europe, the description of the creature began taking on features from cockerels.
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Is Filch's cat his wife?

And Filch talks to her like she's a human and calls her "my sweet." It's clear she's a maledictus, married Filch when she was still able to take human form, and then she succumbed to the blood curse and became permanently a cat, but Filch still loves her as his wife.
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Is Filch professor Mcgonagall's son?

The answer is: NO.
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Is Luna Lovegood a Maledictus?

Luna Lovegood Is A Maledictus | Harry Potter Theory.
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Why is Tina not in Fantastic Beasts 3?

Per the movie, Tina's just been made head of the American auror office, so she has no time for adventures.
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Where did Nagini go Fantastic Beasts?

Nagini's Future After The Fantastic Beasts Movies

From that point on, she goes to the forests of Albania, presumably to live out the rest of her life as a gargantuan creature, perpetually bound in her scaly form.
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Is Nagini in Fantastic Beasts 3?

Nagini didn't appear in Fantastic Beasts 3 - most likely because of Claudia Kim's pregnancy amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, but this also makes sense in-universe, as she couldn't have come close to Grindelwald without putting herself in grave danger.
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Can Nagini see through the invisibility cloak?

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Nagini seemed to be able to see Harry and Hermione though Harry's invisibility cloak while they were visiting Harry's old house in Godric's Hollow.
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How did Ron know Parseltongue?

The ability to speak Parseltongue is usually inborn; a wizard is born being able to speak Parseltongue, and those who are not born with the ability cannot normally learn the language (although, according to the author, Dumbledore may have learned to understand it, and in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Ron learnt ...
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How is Nagini disguised as Bathilda?

Bathilda then led Harry over to a cluttered table and, after distracting him by pointing at the mass of dirty laundry piled on said table (which Harry scanned for a sign of Griffindor's Sword), revealed herself to be Voldemort's snake Nagini in disguise.
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