Why does Bathilda Bagshot turn into a snake?

She lived in Godric's Hollow, and was murdered around December, 1997. Her corpse was then animated by Lord Voldemort to contain his pet snake Nagini
Nagini
"Naga" is "snake" while "Nagini" is a "female snake" in Sanskrit and "Nagin" means "female snake" in Hindi and Urdu.
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How was the snake in Bathilda Bagshot?

Exactly. Nagini was inside of Bathilda's corpse. Harry's conversation with Hermione is a result of his confusion. He is saying that the snake wasn't hiding in the room, it was Bathilda.
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How was the snake inside Bathilda?

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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How did Nagini animate 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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Who is Bathilda and Nagini?

Nagini is a female Maledictus cursed to transform into a snake. Bathilda was murdered during the height of the Second Wizarding War through the Dark Arts and her body was animated by Lord Voldemort transforming her in Nagini.
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What was wrong with Bathilda Bagshot?

An elderly Professor Bagshot was a tiny woman, her head at the level of seventeen-year-old Harry Potter's chest. At the time that Harry Potter met her, she was stooped, her eyes were thick with cataracts, and her hair was scant and white, with her scalp clearly visible. Her face had some liver spots and broken veins.
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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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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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Is the snake in Godric's Hollow Nagini?

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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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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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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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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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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Why did Nagini follow 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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How is Nagini a woman?

Rowling previously revealed that Nagini is a Maledictus, which means she carries a blood curse that will doom her to transform permanently into a beast.
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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 did Nagini see Harry 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 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 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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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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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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Why did Bathilda not speak in front of Hermione?

A. She thought hermoine would recognized the voice of Rita skeeter.
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Why is it called Godric's Hollow?

History. Godric's Hollow was famed as the birthplace of Godric Gryffindor, and also as the final resting place of at least one of the Peverell family.
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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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