Who is the old lady in Godric's Hollow?

Bathilda Bagshot is a famous witch and author. She's the historian who wrote the book A History of Magic. She lived, and died, in the equally famous area of Godric's Hollow, the birthplace of Harry Potter. She was good friends with the Potter and Dumbledore families.
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What was wrong with Bathilda Bagshot?

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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How was Nagini in bathilda?

Bathilda's corpse was not animated by magic, it was animated by Nagini being inside it. The corpse only seems to be moving because Nagini was moving it, and it was incapable of doing anything that she couldn't do, like cast spells or speak English. “Bathilda” was able to speak, but only in Parseltongue.
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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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What did Harry and bathilda say in parseltongue?

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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Who is the man in the picture in Bathilda Bagshot's house?

Soon after, Hermione showed Harry Rita Skeeter's book The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore, and they realised that the wizard in the picture was Gellert Grindelwald, and that he had been friends with Dumbledore when the two men were teenagers.
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Is bathilda Bagshot related to Grindelwald?

Bathilda was also the great-aunt of Gellert Grindelwald, the infamous dark wizard who was defeated by Albus Dumbledore.
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What was the room in Bathilda Bagshot's house?

Right after Nagini begins attacking Harry, she strikes at him, knocking him through the wall and into another room. The weird thing is, the room appears to be a child's nursery, complete with a crib, and strangest of all, an electric light hanging from the ceiling.
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What happened at bathilda Bagshots house?

Affiliation. This home in Godric's Hollow served as the dwelling of Bathilda Bagshot, famed magical historian and author of A History of Magic. She was murdered by Lord Voldemort during the height of the Second Wizarding War, and after her murder her home went into disarray, with no one to care for it.
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How did the snatchers find Harry?

During the time that Voldemort's name was under Taboo spell, Harry Potter mistakenly used his name. This led Fenrir and the other Snatchers to find them.
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How did Snape know where Harry was in the woods?

If you can see/feel what your Patronus sees/feels when you send it off on a mission, Snape would know the moment the Patronus found Harry and would be able to hide the sword in the lake in time for Harry to find it when he arrived, minutes later.
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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 wormtail milk Nagini?

1994. In 1994, Death Eater Peter Pettigrew milked the venom from Nagini's fangs and used it, along with unicorn blood, to concoct a dark potion, which allowed Lord Voldemort's shattered soul to regain a rudimentary, but physical form.
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Is bathilda Bagshot pureblood?

Bagshot was the surname of a wizarding family. It is unknown whether the family name became extinct with the death of Bathilda, and it is unknown if they were pure blood or had both magical and muggle heritage.
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Who was the old lady watching Harry and Hermione?

Bathilda Bagshot is a famous witch and author. She's the historian who wrote the book A History of Magic.
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Why did bathilda wanted to speak in front of Hermione?

A. She thought hermoine would recognized the voice of Rita skeeter.
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What was hidden in Godric's Hollow?

The house, like the statue, had been made invisible to Muggles. During the same visit, they were attacked by Nagini, disguised as Bathilda Bagshot. Lord Voldemort had previously murdered Bathilda and used Dark Magic to conceal Nagini within her corpse.
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What is the story behind Dumbledore's sister?

What happened to Ariana Dumbledore? Dumbledore's younger sister was abused by a bunch of muggle kids when she was just six years old. The ordeal caused her to become emotionally and magically unstable. Albus' father took vengeance on the kids who hurt Ariana, landing him in Azkaban.
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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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Who has the doe Patronus?

Case study 2: Severus Snape

A doe. And in his final battle with Lord Voldemort, Harry explained the significance of this to his adversary, and to us: 'Snape's Patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's, because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from the time when they were children'.
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Who sent the Patronus to Harry in the woods?

Yet despite the danger of his mission, and despite being hated by most of the wizarding world, Snape held on to the one thing that kept him going: the safety of Lily's son. He even sent his Patronus to guide Harry Potter to the sword of Gryffindor (a known Horcrux-killer) in a nearby lake.
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Who's doe Patronus Deathly Hallows?

We learn later that the doe was Severus Snape's Patronus. Carefully examining the text shows that Hermione had her beaded bag open when she told Harry where they had stopped. Phineas Nigellus's portrait inside it overheard Hermione and reported that to Snape.
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Is Harry related to Godric Gryffindor?

Harry is descended from both Salazar Slytherin (through his mother) and Godric Gryffindor (through his father).
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WHO is Queenie in Harry Potter?

Queenie Kowalski (née Goldstein) (b. 6 January, 1903) was an American half-blood witch and the younger sister of Tina Goldstein. She attended Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where she was sorted into Pukwudgie house.
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Is Voldemort related to the Peverells?

J.K. Rowling spoke about Harry and Voldemort's link at a Bloomsbury Live Chat in 2007, saying: 'Yes, Harry and Voldemort are distantly related through the Peverells. Of course, nearly all wizarding families are related if you trace them back through the centuries.
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