According to Rowling Nagini's a maledictus not an animagus. A maledictus is someone whose blood was cursed since birth thus them slowly turning into a beast till it's permanent. JK also said on Twitter that maledictus are women only, passed down from mothers to daughters. But it can be any beasts form.
She/her
...this is stupid and I hate it.
Lurker turned Troper
Oh, Merlin's beard. It's a literal Dragon Lady.
I am a simple man, I like stories therefore I dissect and discuss them.
She/her
...Jesus Christ you’re right.
Ace of Space!
I swear it's like every piece of info that comes out about this movie makes me even less inclined to see it. Jesus Christ.
I think at this point I'm quite comfortable just sticking with fanfic. There's plenty of choice out there, I'm bound to find what I'm actually looking for.
/crawls back under rock
Perpetually Confused
This tweet
sums up my sentiment exactly.
2018 me: voldemort and bellatrix have a love child called delphi who is albus severus' nemesis
2007 me: what -
2018 me: nagini is a human woman and voldemort's been sucking her milk
(Seriously, it'll make the passage about "Milking Nagini" soooo uncomfortable to read. Doubly so when it's Peter Pettigrew, already sort of a Memetic Molester that' been doing the milking.)
Edited by Ghilz on Sep 25th 2018 at 8:03:34 AM
Mistakes Were Made
Wasn't it her venom? Don't think snakes produce milk.
‘My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’
Perpetually Confused
It was.
Though there's a specific bit (thankfully never used) concept art for the films that's surfaced. As it's prolly NSFW and also kinda gross I won't link it, but it has the "Small body" Voldemort suckling on a snake with boobs. (From GOF's concept art, It appears in the "Harry Potter: Page to Screen" book.)
Eitherway, the (several) times where "Milking Nagini" is brought up in the books got really uncomfortable to read.
Also don't forget Nagini ate people. So that's some Cannibalism on top of this.
Can't wait to find out if she was a willing participant. Or a Victim being controlled.
Also this retroactively means Neville killed another human being.
Suddenly this old joke tweet about how JK Rowling "adds" to her universe seems apropos.
Edited by Ghilz on Sep 25th 2018 at 8:54:07 AM
Ace of Space!
...I need so much brain bleach now.
/crawls back under rock
This is a title.
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Inb4 Neville created a Horcrux when he killed Nagini. 
Not even that... does this retcon the whole 'Human Horcrux thing'?
Perpetually Confused
Inb4 Nagini created a Horcrux when she killed people!
This also likely means we're getting a "Young Voldemort" in this film trilogy. He joined the school in 38, Grindelwald is defeated in 45 (Putting Voldy in his 7th year), they are gonna set up Nagini meeting Tom Riddle somewhere. I mean, why else write this right? The only fathomable reason I can think for this is that they want to tie this film series with the books further, and having Nagini meet Tom Riddle seems like a logical endpoint.
And I don't even wanna think what dumb retcons this might lead us to.
Edited by Ghilz on Sep 25th 2018 at 11:59:57 AM
Perpetually Confused
If two Horcrux kill someone while near one another, can they make each other in double horcruxes?
Wow. Here I thought you'd all be talking about Dumbledore being gay in the trailer.
Perpetually Confused
Well that's old news now.
Well I didn't think Voldemort's snake needed a backstory but, I guess if its interesting enough?
Trailer doesn't elaborate on it enough for me to care. After so many years of 'He is, but we won't show it', I need them to be direct and explicit about the matter rather than this elephant in the room nonsense.
I mean they don't meet face to face this movie so I can see it just not coming up, but in the eventual confrontation I would be dissapointed without more explicity.
fuckANN
So I just heard about the Nagini retcon. Who asked for this. Nagini was just a snake that Voldemort put a piece of himself I don't see the reason to make it more complicated. That's like saying the Rancor in Return of the Jedi was once a powerful jedi or Blofeld's cat was the true leader of SPECTRE.
You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price.
Or C 3 PO was built by Anakin or that Yoda fought alongside Chewbacca in the Clone Wars or...
It's standard "prequels feel the need to explain things that no one asked about."
The guy who loved snakes having a giant fuck-off snake needed no explanation.
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fuckANN
JK Rowling is becoming the second George Lucas
You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price.
To me this is the biggest pitfall of a lot of prequels. They try to establish a link to the original by referencing someone or something from the original. With this retcon, I don't know who was asking to find out the origins of Nagini. To me it would've made more sense to introduce a new character who's a relative of someone from the original series, like maybe Draco's grandfather. It'd still be pandering to fans of the character, but it'd at least make sense.
Edited by ShawnRi on Sep 26th 2018 at 1:30:29 AM
To be a Master
It is, admittedly, explicit in the books that if you transfigured a human being or screw up the animagus procedure, you end up an animal without human cognizance. That’s probably what happened here, especially since they note her personality now is not what you’d expect.
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.