Who was the old lady in Godric Hollow?

Bathilda is a very old witch and the former neighbor of the Dumbledore family in Godric's Hollow. As such, she knows quite a bit about the family's past, including the darker and more tragic parts. As the great aunt of Gellert Grindelwald, it was actually Bathilda who introduced Dumbledore to the future Dark wizard.
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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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What does Nagini say to Harry as Bathilda Bagshot?

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.
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Was bathilda a snake?

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. Harry eventually came with his friend Hermione Granger.
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Why is Bathilda Bagshot important?

Bagshot is best known for writing Harry's History of Magic textbook. In the weeks after Dumbledore's death, Rita Skeeter preyed on Bagshot's old age and failing mind to conduct invasive interviews on the Dumbledore family.
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Who killed 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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How did Nagini become Bathilda 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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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 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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Why can't Nagini turn back into a human?

This was an ability the Circus Arcanus took extreme advantage of. Ultimately, however, Nagini's Maledictus blood curse took over, which forced her to stay in her snake form permanently.
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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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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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Can Bathilda Bagshot speak Parseltongue?

Known Parselmouths

Albus Dumbledore recognised, but did not speak, Parseltongue. Bathilda Bagshot's carcass spoke in Parseltongue while it was occupied by Nagini.
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Who is the floating woman in Deathly Hallows?

Burbage is portrayed by British actress Carolyn Pickles in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1. Charity says the same last words that Albus Dumbledore did, except she adds another 'please'.
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What happened to Rita Skeeter?

Ultimately, Hermione discovered the means by which Rita spied on others and forced her to "keep her quill to herself for a full year" by catching her in her beetle form while she was perched on the Hospital Wing window and trapping her in a jar imbued with an Unbreakable Charm so she couldn't transform.
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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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Why did Snape hide the sword in the lake?

In addition, the portrait of Dumbledore told Severus Snape that the sword must be taken under conditions of need and valour, which was why Snape put it into the frozen pond in the first place. As goblin's silver, it imbibed only substances which strengthened it, which could then be used against enemies.
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Who sent the Patronus in Prisoner of Azkaban?

One of them was when he was talking to dumbledore about harry having to die and dumbledore asks if he has grown feelings for harry. Snape sends out a patronus immediately after then mentions lily but immediately after that scene it shows that patronus helping harry.
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How did Bellatrix get the sword?

During the Second Wizarding War, Godric Gryffindor's Sword was secured in Bellatrix's vault on Voldemort's orders, Voldemort and Bellatrix both unaware, at the time, that it was merely a copy placed there then-Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Severus Snape).
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Who is the man in the picture in Bathilda Bagshot's house?

It's as simple as that! Maybe he did believe these things when he was seventeen, but the whole of the rest of his life was devoted to fighting the Dark Arts!" Hermione gives Harry the copy of The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore that she picked up in the Bathilda Bagshot's house.
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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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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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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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Who is Ignotus Peverell son?

Loyalty. Mr Peverell (fl. 1291) was a pure-blood wizard who lived during the 13th century, the son of Ignotus Peverell.
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How long was Bathilda Bagshot dead?

Professor Bathilda Bagshot (fl. 1881–1997) was a magical historian and the author of A History of Magic and approximately ten other books.
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