Who is Nagini disguised as?

But how was the snake able to impersonate Bathilda? In the Harry Potter franchise, Bathilda Bagshot is a famous name of the Wizarding World. A well-respected witch, she's the author of A History of Magic, one of Hermione's favorite textbooks at school, and a former teacher.
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How did Nagini become Bagshot?

J.K. Rowling writes in Tales of Beedle the Bard that Inferi are simply corpses reanimated by Dark Magic and she describes them as "ghastly puppets" that are not sentient. Nagini was a Horcrux, which is Dark Magic. She occupied and ambulated Bathilda Bagshot's corpse.
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Who was Nagini before she was a snake?

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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Was Nagini in the Chamber of Secrets?

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 turned Nagini 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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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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Was 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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Why was Nagini in Godric's Hollow?

The snake was planted in the animated corpse of Bathilda Bagshot to wait to see if Harry would come to see the graves of his parents in Godric's Hollow, and then to hold him there until Voldemort arrived to murder him.
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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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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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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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Why did Voldemort make Nagini a Horcrux?

He was able to communicate with Nagini as a Parselmouth, and he turned her into a Horcrux in 1994, after he murdered Bertha Jorkins, which accounted for the unusual amount of control that he had over her.
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How did Nagini see Harry and Hermione?

As others mention, snakes have excellent senses of smell, so Nagini might have used that to detect Harry and Hermione. Snakes also feel vibrations that would give away their movements. Of course, it's possible that some magical ability (horcrux detecting another horcrux, enchantment to counter invisibility, etc.)
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How did Nagini control bathilda?

Sometime after her interview with Rita Skeeter, Bathilda was murdered through the Dark Arts and her body was animated by Lord Voldemort. Voldemort did this using his snake, Nagini.
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What did Hermione find in Bathilda Bagshot's closet?

You'll learn a lot more about him in the second half of the movie. What's up with that snake lady? Bathilda Bagshot has actually been dead for weeks, which explains the flies and blood handprints Hermione finds.
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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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What spell did Harry use on Nagini?

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Harry uses the Blasting Curse against Nagini in an attempt to kill her and possibly to provoke Voldemort to chase Harry, so the snake would stay behind unprotected.
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What was Grindelwald's famous slogan?

"I wish you were working with me now. Towards a world where we wizards are free to live openly, and to love freely,"
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What was in Vault 713?

At the beginning of the first book, Gringotts Vault 713, a higher-security vault, held a small grubby bag, which we later learn contains the Philosopher's Stone. Albus Dumbledore sends Hagrid to retrieve it while he escorts Harry to Diagon Alley.
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Is Nagini in Fantastic Beasts Voldemorts 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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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 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 Luna Lovegood a Maledictus?

And there is also no proof in the books about Pandora or Luna being a Maledictus. It is merely based on names wich then are interpreted in that way.
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Is Filch professor Mcgonagall's son?

The answer is: NO.
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