It’s still unclear whether Nagini will go to the dark side or whether Voldemort will somehow enslave her after she’s permanently turned into a snake. Fans might assume that Nagini was intrigued by the dark arts early in life since she inevitably ends up an ally of the most evil wizard in history.īut in Crimes of Grindelwald, when Grindelwald offers several wizards the choice to join his forces, Nagini resists, even as her friend Credence aligns himself with Grindelwald. Presumably, this Nagini is the very same one who will eventually become companion to (and Horcrux of) Voldemort. Unlike an Animagus, who can freely morph from human to animal and back, a Maledictus carries a blood curse that will eventually turn the person into the animal permanently.

Credence meets her while the two are working at a circus. This woman turns out to be a Maledictus named Nagini, played by Claudia Kim. Rowling stirred up controversy when the Crimes of Grindelwald trailer teased a character who turned from human to snake. Similarly, when Gilderoy Lockhart Obliviates his victims, he erases all their memories - positive and negative. In doing so, she erased good memories, though she was able to restore them later. For example, Hermione modified her parents’ memories so that they couldn’t recall that Hermione had ever been born in order to protect them from the Death Eaters. This doesn’t seem to be how the Obliviate charm works in the Harry Potter books. Jacob explains that the spell only erased the bad memories - and that he had mostly good ones, so he remembered all of those. To Newt’s surprise, Muggle Jacob (Dan Fogler) shows up at his flat at the beginning of Crimes of Grindelwald, and he remembers everything. Memory charmsĪt the end of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, wizards modify the memories of an entire city of Muggles so that they won’t remember the magic they witnessed. (In another scene, the Minister of Magic observes that Dumbledore and Grindelwald were “as close as brothers,” to which Dumbledore knowingly replies, “closer.”)ĭumbledore seems to still be in love with the man, even as he recognizes Grindelwald’s potential for evil. This short scene nods at Rowling’s revelation that Dumbledore and Grindelwald had a romantic relationship. In Crimes of Grindelwald, we see Dumbledore gazing at a mirror that reflects Grindelwald back at him. But apparently a younger Dumbledore harbored different desires.

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