Why Harry Potter Fans Are So Upset About a Twist in the New Fantastic Beasts Trailer (and Also Snake Milking)

Author: Alex Barasch / Source: Slate Magazine

Nagini is best known, where she is known, as Voldemort’s loyal pet snake in the Harry Potter universe: a magical creature who killed Snape and was ultimately beheaded by Neville Longbottom in his crowning moment of glory.

But the new trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, the second of five prequel films, set off a Twitter firestorm today with the revelation that she was once a human woman. Let us try to explain why.

The trailer itself provides little context beyond another character dramatically whispering “Nagini” while actress Claudia Kim (Avengers: Age of Ultron) transforms into a snake. Kim (in an interview with Entertainment Weekly) and J.K. Rowling (

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shed more light on the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment: Nagini is a maledictus, a woman who can (for now) shift from human to snake freely, but who will ultimately be trapped in her serpentine form thanks to a matrilineal blood curse. She…

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