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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Who was the woman watching Harry and Hermione?

Apparently, it's Bathilda Bagshot. Hermione isn't keen on following her, but Harry thinks she might have the sword of Gryffindor. Which they really need if they want to destroy the Horcrux. As they follow the woman, they walk by Harry's old house, where his parents were murdered.
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Who was the old lady at Godrics 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 watching Harry and Hermione by the church?

After Hermione raised her wand and created a wreath of Christmas roses and they put it on Harry's parents' grave they start they turned and walked away. Hermione told Harry to stop as she noticed that someone was watching them this person was Bathilda Bagshot. Bathilda beckoned Harry and Hermione into her house.
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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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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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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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What does Hermione see in Bathilda Bagshot's house?

Bathilda Bagshot's house

Harry and Hermione then realised that they were being stared at by a very old woman, who was able to see them despite their being under the Invisibility Cloak.
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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 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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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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Who was the man in Bathilda Bagshot's house?

History. Bagshot presumably lived in the house beginning at least in the late nineteenth century, as she is known to have lived in the town during the 1890s, when her great-nephew Gellert Grindelwald stayed with her briefly. Before her death her home was well taken care of, tidy, and had homey look.
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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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Is Bathilda Bagshot a snake?

While visiting Godric's Hollow to look for the Sword of Gryffindor to destroy the Horcruxes, Harry and Hermione meet Bathilda Bagshot only to discover she's actually the snake Nagini waiting for them.
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Why did the old lady turn into a snake in Harry Potter?

Before now, Claudia Kim's character had only been known as 'the Maledictus'. A 'Maledictus' is a carrier of a blood curse which will ultimately destine them to transform permanently into a beast. It transpires that Nagini the snake, from Harry Potter, used to be a woman with a terrible curse.
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What books did Bathilda Bagshot write?

Books by Bathilda Bagshot
  • Hogwarts: A History.
  • Bathilda Bagshot's books.
  • Omens, Oracles & the Goat.
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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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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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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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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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What was the bright room in Bathilda Bagshot's house?

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. Plus it seems like the only entrance to the room was the hole Harry made in the wall.
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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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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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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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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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