If you have at least one Harry Potter fan in your life, you have already heard about the upcoming Fantastic Beasts movie. If you don’t, then (a) what is wrong with you, and (b) the second installment of the Harry Potter spin-off Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is about to hit the theatres in November 2018. The movie finally takes fans back to Hogwarts and Albus Dumbledore. However, the last trailer of the second Fantastic Beasts release has revived the fandom with a new revelation – Nagini was once human.

The trailer has a two second clip where Claudia Kim’s character turns into a snake as someone calls her ‘Nagini’. This clip has made fans all over the world lose their mind. Nagini was Voldemort’s snake and his final horcrux in the Harry Potter series. The revelation that Voldemort’s beloved snake was once a human has left fans with a million questions to say the least. As the fandom continues to question, understand and theorise around the revelation, JK Rowling has once again proved that this universe cannot die.

So if you are confused about how Nagini could have been human and why it was never mentioned in the initial books or movies, JKR has all the answers. While fans believed that Nagini was an animagus witch who transformed into a snake at will, the Queen bee revealed that Nagini is a Maledictus. Maledictus is a woman with cursed blood, who slowly transforms into a beast. While the transformations can be reversible in the beginning, a Maledictus finally turns into a beast who cannot go back to the human form.

So, Nagini completely transformed into a snake by the time she meets Voldemort. However, since Voldemort understood and spoke Parseltongue (the snake language), he may have very well known about Nagini’s past. According to JK Rowling, creator of this magical universe, the blood curse that causes a person to be Maledictus is passed on from mother to daughter and can run through a family line.

These shocking revelations that were made on social media has brought back the excitement in the life of every Harry Potter fan. This is also proven that the Harry Potter universe just cannot die. Twenty-one years since the release of the first book, the fandom still keeps stumbling across new plots, hidden messages and character developments. And if at all the fandom falls short, JK Rowling comes up with a startling revelation that leaves us all exasperated. Whether it was the fact that Dumbledore is gay, or the more recent surprise that nagini is human.

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By: Naina