Nagini Mary GrandPré's illustration of Nagini in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.Nagini (Hindi: nāginī, pronounced [ˈnɑːɡɪniː]; variant of Hindi: nāgin, a female cobra, from Hindi/Sanskrit: nāg, a cobra) is a serpent used by Voldemort to create his final Horcrux.[17] Voldemort intended Nagini to be his sixth Horcrux, which would have split his soul into seven pieces, a number he considered to have magically powerful properties.[17] Since he had inadvertently made Harry into a de facto Horcrux (a fact he had not known), Nagini was in fact his seventh Horcrux,[17] although only six Horcruxes survived at any one time since the diary had already been destroyed. He cast the spells needed to create the Horcrux after murdering Ministry official Bertha Jorkins.[21][20] As with his diary, Volde