Casting Nagini as an Asian woman of colour in 'Fantastic Beasts: 'The Crimes of Grindelwald' has fans outraged
JK Rowling has done it again. And no, she hasn't written another stalwart of modern day literature like Harry Potter, but in her attempts to be 'woke' and distribute proper representation of characters, she has now announced that the ever so infamous snake from the Harry Potter franchise - Nagini - is actually a human. Perfectly fine, nothing wrong with that concept. However, a minor detail - Nagini's human form will be played by Asian actress Claudia Kim, has left the franchise's fans outraging.
For those clueless about the background, in a new trailer for the Harry Potter franchise's upcoming film, 'Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald,' Nagini was shown to be a shapeshifting woman. The magical name for such a creature in the Wizarding World is 'maledictus,' meaning a woman who is cursed from birth to take the shape of a snake. The curse is passed on from mother to daughter.