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How did Voldemort get Nagini?

Nagini was Lord Voldemort's final Horcrux
In an interview, J.K. Rowling revealed that it was the murder of Bertha Jorkins that made Nagini a Horcrux. After Voldemort discovered his Horcruxes were in danger, Nagini was magically protected, described as being encased in a 'starry, translucent sphere'.
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Why is Nagini 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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How did Nagini permanently become 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).
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Why can t Nagini turn back into a human?

But now we know Nagini was no simple supervillainous pet, but a human woman cursed with the “Maledictus” blood curse, which, according to Rowling, is a female-only inherited condition which grants the affected individual the ability to transform into an animal at will, until one day, the transformation becomes ...
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What did Nagini say to Harry?

Behind the scenes. 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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The Story of Nagini (+ How She Met Voldemort) - Harry Potter Explained

What did Nagini do to Snape?

Because Snape killed Dumbledore, and so the wand currently owes its allegiance to Snape. The wand will not perform its best for Voldemort until Snape is dead. So saying, Voldemort waves his pet snake, Nagini, in her nest of protective spells, into Snape. Nagini immediately bites Snape, who falls.
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Was Tom Riddle in love with Nagini?

Voldemort had a special relationship with Nagini, as she was his pet and one of his Horcruxes. According to Dumbledore, Voldemort had strong feelings for Nagini that he had not for anyone else; she was the one living thing that he had ever cared about.
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Does Dumbledore know Nagini?

Dumbledore does not use any language to make one think that Nagini is anything more than a snake. But this could be despite his knowledge of Nagini's past because he has to factor his grand plans into everything he tells (or doesn't tell) Harry.
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Why can t Harry talk to Nagini?

Harry can no longer speak it

Harry being an accidental Horcrux meant he was bound to Voldemort in so many ways, just like Voldemort was bound to serpents. Not only could Harry speak the language of the snake, but could see through the eyes of Nagini, another of Voldemort's Horcruxes, as it turned out.
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Who did Voldemort feed to Nagini?

Nagini, Voldemort's snake, then eats Professor Burbage's dead body. A story about her "resignation" from Hogwarts appears in the Prophet, but members of the Order of the Phoenix discount it, as they are unable to locate her anywhere after that. Burbage is later replaced as Muggle Studies teacher by Alecto Carrow.
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Is Nagini related to Snape?

So the suggestion is that Credence Barebone and Nagini will turn out to be Snape's grandparents. This is certainly not the first time that Nagini has been theorized to be related to someone in Harry Potter, and it is definitely not the first time it has been suggested that Credence and Nagini will become an item.
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Why didn t Nagini eat Snape?

Why did Voldemort have Nagini kill Snape instead of doing it himself? Because he thought he couldn't do it himself. Voldemort was holding the Elder Wand, but thought that its true allegiance laid with Snape, as he was the one who had killed Dumbledore, its previous owner.
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Why does Nagini need milking?

Until then, Voldemort required the potion every few hours to keep his crippled body alive, and Pettigrew had to continuously milk Nagini for the venom to keep feeding his master.
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Why was Nagini so powerful?

Nagini was a maledictus. That means that she carried an innate, hereditary blood curse giving her ability to transform herself into snake, which gradually became uncontrollable until Nagini eventually lost the ability to turn back into human completely.
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Why doesn t Harry use Avada Kedavra?

Though Harry encountered many opportunities that deemed Avada Kedavra necessary, it remains as one of the Unforgivable Curses Harry Potter never cast. For one, he viewed the spell as an immoral practice commonly used by users of the Dark Arts.
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Why didn't Voldemort give Snape a quick death?

Voldemort thinks that the wand only passes on to a new owner through killing, not disarming. He didn't order Snape to do it- he ordered it to be Draco. So while he thinks Snape did it for him, he couldn't say it was his direct order.
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Is the snake Harry saved Nagini?

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 didn t Voldemort protect Nagini?

The reason is simple. In the books, Voldemort doesn't feel it when a Horcrux is destroyed.
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How did Arthur Weasley survive Nagini?

He was given a Blood-Replenishing Potion, as he continued to bleed profusely any time his bandages were removed, suggesting that Nagini's venom somehow prevented or delayed blood clotting.
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How did Nagini turn human in deathly hallows?

The more reliable yet gruesome explanation is that Voldemort killed Bathilda, reanimated her corpse through magic and then hid the snake inside. But the snake is quite big, so some other kind of magic would've had to be used for her to be hidden inside the body.
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Why didn t Dumbledore tell Harry about Nagini?

By not telling anyone, including the Order, Dumbledore ensured that the Dark Lord remained confident in his defences for as long as possible – by the time he began checking on them, the Dark Lord only had two left, the Diadem and Nagini.
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Why did the killing curse work on Harry but not Nagini?

However Harry is a living thing. He is human and how do you destroy a human beyond repair? You kill them. The killing curse worked on Harry because he is alive, it would have also worked on Nagini.
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Who is the floating woman in Deathly Hallows?

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) - Carolyn Pickles as Charity Burbage - IMDb.
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Is Credence really a Dumbledore?

Albus confirms to Creedence early on in the film that he is in fact a Dumbledore, quashing any rumor that Grindelwald had lied to the young boy in order to sway him to his movement. It is explained that Credence is the illegitimate son of Albus's younger brother, Aberforth (Richard Coyle).
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Why can't Dumbledore fight Grindelwald?

Dumbledore and Grindelwald took a blood oath to not fight each other. "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald," the second film in the series, reveals that as teenagers Dumbledore and Grindelwald undertook a blood pact that wouldn't allow them to move against each other.
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