How the Nagini storyline plays out in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Many were worried about how Nagini was going to be portrayed in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald and her story was fine. Nothing insanely outrageous.

When the news broke that Nagini was going to be in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, many were concerned. Not only was she being portrayed by a woman, but many were angry because she wasn’t a woman of Indian descent. The name Nagini comes from Sanskrit and many expected her, if she was ever to be played by a woman, to be cast accordingly.

Outside of that, she was a woman. That’s a big red flag because we’ve only ever seen Nagini as Voldemort’s pet. So was this woman just going to be a  creature that Voldemort tricked into following him? The way the movie describes Nagini is that she is a woman who, for now, can transform into a snake but, as time goes on, she will be forced to into being a snake forever.

So it makes sense that she’d go to Voldemort because he’d be able to understand her since he is a parseltongue. That being said, it still isn’t a wonderful storyline. We didn’t really need an addition of Nagini and it doesn’t help that she actively tells Grindelwald she won’t join him but then joins Voldemort who supports his views?

It sends a mixed message but we’ll have to see how the rest of her storyline plays out. There is clearly something we don’t know and we have three more movies to learn about Nagini and how she ends up with Voldemort and the Death Eaters by the time he kills the Potters.

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is in theaters now. See where Newt and his friends find themselves next!