BATHILDA BAGSHOT & NAGINI, EVIL TRANSFORMATIONS

Professor Bathilda Bagshot

Today, The Stones and The Grandma have known Professor Bathilda Bagshot and Nagini, two dark characters of Magic World.

Professor Bathilda Bagshot is a British witch, magical historian and the author of A History of Magic a book used in the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. 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. For this reason, Bathilda's body could technically be considered as an Inferi.

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Professor Bathilda Bagshot is a British witch, magical historian and the author of A History of Magic and approximately ten other books.

A History of Magic is used in the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry class of the same name, taught by Cuthbert Binns. She lived in Godric's Hollow and was murdered after which her corpse was animated by Lord Voldemort to contain his pet snake Nagini.

Bathilda was also the great-aunt of Gellert Grindelwald, the infamous dark wizard who was defeated by Albus Dumbledore.

Professor Bagshot was born to the wizarding Bagshot family sometime in the early or mid nineteenth century.

Bagshot was already an adult living in her house in Godric's Hollow, when Kendra Dumbledore moved there from Mould-on-the-Wold along with her young children Albus, Aberforth, and Ariana, after her husband Percival's well-publicised arrest and imprisonment in Azkaban. Bathilda tried to befriend Kendra after they arrived, but she was rebuffed.

Within the next several years, Bathilda sent an owl to Albus Dumbledore, then a Hogwarts student, having been favourably impressed by his paper on trans-species Transfiguration for the scholarly journal Transfiguration Today.

Professor Bathilda Bagshot

This initial contact led to her being acquainted with the rest of the Dumbledore family. At the time of Kendra's death, Bathilda was the only person in Godric's Hollow who was on speaking terms with her.

After Albus Dumbledore graduated from Hogwarts, an orphan and head of the family, Bathilda's great-nephew, Gellert Grindelwald, came to live with her and she made a point of introducing Grindelwald to Albus. The two talented young men became friends. It is unknown how much or what Bathilda knew of her nephew's actions concerning Aberforth and Ariana Dumbledore, but she witnessed the fist-fight that broke out between the Dumbledore brothers at Ariana's funeral.

Bathilda's work on wizarding history was published under the title A History of Magic by Little Red Books. It was presumably around this time she authored her other works on magical history. She was deemed the most celebrated magical historian of the twentieth century.

Bathilda may have been a teacher at some point, possibly at Hogwarts, as Hermione Granger referred to her as Professor Bagshot when referencing her work.

In her older years, Bathilda was on close terms with Lily Potter and even spoke to the younger woman on the closeness between Grindelwald and Dumbledore, though Lily remained somewhat sceptical, given Bathilda's advancing age and possible senility.

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Bathilda was also the only one to join the Potters during Harry Potter's birthday tea when he turned one year old. Ron Weasley's great aunt Muriel called her gaga during Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour's wedding.

Also sometime in her later life, Professor Bagshot provided a quote for the critical acclaim for Quidditch Through the Ages by Kennilworthy Whisp, when she wrote Kennilworthy Whisp's painstaking research has uncovered a veritable treasure trove of hitherto unknown facts about the sport of warlocks. A fascinating read as a review.

After the death of Albus Dumbledore, Bathilda was interviewed by Rita Skeeter through the use of Veritaserum. Rita then used the material she gathered from Bathilda in her only semi-true biography The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore. It is implied that Skeeter took advantage of Bathilda's poor mental state to twist her material to be more sensationalist. She even referred to Bathilda as being batty.

Also while in Bathilda's cottage she took several of her pictures and letters. For example an image of Dumbledore and Grindlewald together. And one letter she stole was a correspondence from Dumbledore to Grindlewald, regarding their ambition to obtain the Deathly Hallows and their plan to start a global revolution. This global revolution would lead wizardkind out of hiding and cause Muggle servitude.

Professor Bathilda Bagshot

Professor Bathilda Bagshot & Harry Potter

Bathilda's pictures and letters caused tension in the wizarding world, especially among those whom were Dumbledore supporters. Harry Potter was one of the ones most affected by it.

Sometime after her interview with Rita Skeeter, Bathilda was murdered during the height of the Second Wizarding War. She was murdered through the Dark Arts and her body was animated by Lord Voldemort. It is possible that Bathilda's body could technically be considered as an Inferi.

Lord Voldemort did this using his snake, Nagini. He left Nagini in her cottage as a trap, reasoning that Harry Potter may visit Godric's Hollow to see his parents' grave and their destroyed home, since he was no longer at Hogwarts and had never before had the opportunity to visit Godric’s Hollow.

On the following Christmas Eve, Hermione Granger and Harry did so, thinking that perhaps Dumbledore had left Godric Gryffindor's Sword there for them to be able to destroy the Horcruxes they were hunting. The pair met the possessed woman and were almost captured when Bathilda lured them into her home. After determining Harry's identity, Nagini leapt from Bathilda's body to attack him, leaving the old woman for good. The plan, however, failed, and Harry and Hermione escaped.

Bathilda's body was later found, and her death by Dark magic was reported by Potterwatch.

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.

Little is known of Bathilda's personality. One can presume she was friendly and amiable, having tried to befriend Kendra Dumbledore with a batch of homemade Cauldron Cakes. She regarded Albus Dumbledore as something like a protégé and was friendly with Lily Potter. She was a brilliant witch and historian in her youth, but during her later years she was quite possibly becoming senile.

Bathilda is an alternate spelling of the name of Saint Balthild, a seventh-century Anglo-Saxon noble and wife of King Clovis II of Burgundy who dedicated her later life to helping the ill and the poor. The name is derived from the Old English Bealdhild, meaning bold battle.

Bathilda is a German name that means heroine.

Bagshot is the name of a town in Surrey, England. The name is thought to be derived from a tribe (bacca) and the Anglo-Saxon word for The place of (sheatte) meaning the place of Bacca's tribe though Bag could also mean badger, the place of the Badger, creating a reference to Hufflepuff.

Bathilda's last name, Bagshot, may also be a reference to The Lord of the Rings, in which the characters Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, and Hamfast and Samwise Gamgee lived on Bagshot Row.

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We had a very quiet birthday tea, just us and old Bathilda,

who has always been sweet to us, and who dotes on Harry...

Bathilda drops in most days, she's a fascinating old thing

with the most amazing stories about Dumbledore,

I'm not sure he'd be pleased if he knew!

I don't know how much to believe, actually,

because it seems incredible that Dumbledore

could ever have been friends with Gellert Grindelwald.

I think her mind's going, personally!

Lily Potter

Nagini is a female Maledictus cursed to transform into a snake. Originating possibly in Indonesia, she was a performer at the Circus Arcanus where she met Credence Barebone and had the ability then to transform at will.

Nagini was seemingly trapped in snake form and belonged to Lord Voldemort, with whom she had a special bond largely due to becoming a Horcrux, after her master had killed Bertha Jorkins.

After Lord Voldemort's initial downfall, he used Nagini's venom as one of the ingredients for a Potion to regain strength, which eventually led to his rebirth. Later in the same year, she attacked Arthur Weasley but he managed to survive. During the Second Wizarding War, she had to be destroyed for Lord Voldemort to finally be defeated. 

Nagini

Nagini was a female human Maledictus, with the ability to transform into a snake. She was a featured attraction in a wizarding circus owned by Skender, who claimed to have found her in the 'jungles of Indonesia. She befriended Obscurial Credence Barebone, who travelled to Europe with the circus after surviving MACUSA's attempt to destroy him in New York, after he attacked the city.

Nagini and Credence decided to escape from the Circus Arcanus and discover his real identity. Amid her performance and transformation into a snake, Credence released firedrakes, so she attacked Skender to run away with Obscurial.

After that, she and Credence went to 18 Rue Philippe Lorand to find who they hoped would be his biological family. They instead found Irma Dugard, a half-elf, who fondly explained some details of the alleged baby and parents. 

Unbeknownst to Credence and Nagini, they were followed by one of Gellert Grindelwald's acolytes, Gunnar Grimmson. As the half-elf was about to divulge a key piece of the story, Nagini was suddenly trapped by Grimmson in a wall while he murdered Irma. Grimmson disapparated before Credence's Obscurus could kill him, Nagini tried but failed to escape her locked position inside of the wall until after the event concluded.

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Later, on the rooftop of the house near the Eiffel Tower, Nagini and Credence met Gellert Grindelwald who was calling his supporters. He gave them a map of Pere Lachaise cemetery.

In the Lestrange Mausoleum, they crossed paths with Yusuf Kama and Jacob Kowalski. Yusuf, thinking that Credence was really Corvus Lestrange, tried to kill him. Nagini tried to save the Obscurial, but Kama said that he will kill her too if she did not get out of the way. When Newt Scamander, Tina Goldstein and Leta Lestrange joined them, Leta proved that Credence and Corvus are not the same people, saving both Credence and Nagini from death.

Eventually, Nagini's blood curse permanently turned her into a snake. She was eventually acquired by Lord Voldemort. It is worth noting that she knew him when he killed Bertha Jorkins in Albania.

Nagini

Nagini & Lord Voldemort

Lord Voldemort used Nagini to help him regain strength and a basic physical form after living in a weak, spectral state, following his attempt to kill an infant Harry Potter, during which he was struck by his rebounding Killing Curse. He had the servant who returned to him, Peter Pettigrew, milk her venom, and with it, create a potion that sustained him with a temporary body until he could regain his true form.

Nagini further kept Lord Voldemort alive after he turned her into a Horcrux, with the murder of Bertha Jorkins; he was as attached to her as he could of any living creatures, and her underlining of his heritage to the legendary Salazar Slytherin only furthered her mystique to him. His habit of keeping her unusually close to him was what led Albus Dumbledore to suspect that she had become a Horcrux for quite some time.

Nagini, along with Lord Voldemort and Peter Pettigrew, sought shelter in the abandoned Riddle House until they could instigate the plan to capture Harry Potter.

Nagini alerted Lord Voldemort to the presence of Frank Bryce, an old Muggle gardener who had worked for the late Riddle family and had overheard a discussion between Pettigrew and Lord Voldemort; soon after, Nagini slithered past Bryce and alerted Lord Voldemort, and the Dark Lord murdered the Muggle man. She probably then ate dead man's corpse.

When Pettigrew's neglect allowed Bartemius Crouch Senior to escape Lord Voldemort's Imperius Curse and head towards Hogwarts, Lord Voldemort threatened to feed Pettigrew to Nagini should Crouch successfully report their plans. However, Crouch was intercepted and killed by his own son, thus the Dark Lord apologised to Nagini that she will not be able to dine on Pettigrew.

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Nagini was present at the meeting at Malfoy Manor. When the Death Eaters were jeering at Charity Burbage and the Malfoy family's humiliation, because of a disgraceful marriage in the family, the great snake got agitated, disliked the noise, opened her mouth wide, and hissed angrily, but to deaf ears. Lord Voldemort, after stroking the angry snake, called for silence.

Near the end of the meeting, Lord Voldemort's prisoner, Hogwarts Muggle Studies teacher, Charity Burbage, was murdered by the Dark Lord by means of the Killing Curse and fed to Nagini.

Later, when Thorfinn Rowle and Antonin Dolohov failed to capture Harry after the Luchino Caffe Duel, Lord Voldemort offered them a choice in punishment: being further Tortured by Draco Malfoy or to be killed and devoured by Nagini. The two chose further torture, as both survived for the next battle.

Nagini was later placed inside the corpse of Bathilda Bagshot by Lord Voldemort's use of extremely Dark Magic and stationed in Godric's Hollow to wait for Harry Potter.

Nagini

When Harry Potter and Hermione Granger arrived there, she lured them into the late witch's home, signalled Lord Voldemort due to the special connection that the two of them shared, Lord Voldemort seemed to have an excessive amount of control over the snake even for a Parselmouth, and then launched a surprise assault on Harry, while the latter was investigating a pile of dirty laundry on a dresser. Because some snakes can sense heat and movement in a way humans cannot, Nagini was able to detect Harry and Hermione even when they were under the Cloak of Invisibility.

Harry fought with Nagini, and the serpent bit him before coiling herself around Harry to hold him in place for Voldemort. However, Hermione came to Harry's assistance, using a Blasting Curse against the snake; the two then jumped out the window and Disapparated just before Voldemort arrived. Later, on Potterwatch, Lee Jordan revealed that the remains of Bathilda's body had been found after being informed by the Order of the Phoenix.

After he discovered that Harry was searching for his Horcruxes, Lord Voldemort placed Nagini into a Protective Magical Cage to prevent her from being killed. Lord Voldemort told her that it was for her good, though since he was trying to ensure his immortality, it was primarily for his. Lord Voldemort then decided that it was no longer safe to send Nagini on any more missions for him.

Shortly before the one-hour armistice during the Battle of Hogwarts, Lord Voldemort used Nagini to murder Severus Snape in the Shrieking Shack by expanding the cage over and on top of him. Nagini proceeded to sink her fangs into Snape's neck, and when Lord Voldemort pulled the protective cage off of Snape, he fell to the ground with blood gushing from the wound in his neck.

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When Harry was apparently killed by Lord Voldemort, Nagini was released from the protective enchantment as he believed there to be no more threats to her life, and she was draped around Lord Voldemort's shoulders during the Death Eaters' victory march back to Hogwarts.

Naga is snake while Nagini is a female snake in Sanskrit and Nagin means female snake in Hindi and Urdu. A reference to Rudyard Kipling's cobra characters Nag and Nagaina from the book, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is referred to as Nagini in some translations.

A Nagini was also a half-woman, half-snake creature that is found in some Indian mythology, possibly a half-snake, half-woman creature called Lamia.

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More, Rowle, or shall we end it and feed you to Nagini?

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