Chapter 1
This story takes place before Harry was even born and starts at the same time that Harry Potter was at Hogwarts.
All her life Nagini had dreamed of carrying on her families legacy and traveling to Hogwarts, as she had seen many a lesser witch travel there before her, which antagonised Gini as her magical prowess was incomparable with those of her age. This was surprising as although she had grown up within the magical community she had nobody giving her a helping hand within her wizarding family. Her mother was a weak but pure-blood witch, which was her mother main outstanding characteristic, on a par with her internal madness that had taken grasp upon the young mothers mind when she was struck by the cruciatus, a spell that was uttered from the mouth of Naginis father. He became angered when he found her mother in bed with another wizard, who had narrowly escaped the curse himself by ducking behind Ginis mother, stunning her father and escaping out the window, not even looking back to check if his supposed young lover, or her infant child were all right. The ministry had, after being immediately notified of the use of an illegal curse, rushed to the scene only to find a young child crying in the arms of a deluded woman. Her father was quickly rushed off to Azkaban, while her mother was sent into the depths of St. Mungos - neither ever visiting the sane wizarding society again.
Ginis life had started with tragedy, which did not stunt her magical growth, but in fact sharpened it. She never saw her father (who later died in prison, deeply regretting his actions) and she never met her real mother, only a dilapidated imprint of the original person.
As Ginis mother was from a pure blood family, being a teen mother in a strict, feared family, where reputation and meant all, gave the parents (Naginis grandparents) the choice between their daughter and dragging their name through the mud, or disowning the child therefore cutting all ties of contact. Barely out of Hogwarts, with no one but the expected Childs father to turn to, she (Ginis mother) was forced into the decision of staying with him, which later ruined her life. She learned to fear him the way she feared her parents, which smothered her magic, which all together extinguished when he started abusing her. He never left traces of abuse, but instead would do little things like starting the pretence that she didn't exist, or threatening to kick her out as well, holding the fact that her family kicked her out over her head. This paired with the fact she had never loved him and was forced in to his household, was what drove her into the arms of another man, her soon to be down fall.
When this was discovered by the magical court, who had examined her memories to discover what had occurred that night (they had to look deep into her mind as most of her thoughts were addled by this new disease) the father was carted back of to Azkaban and was given a life sentence.
The ministry then assumed, approaching the mothers family to take care of the child was the best course of action because although the pure-bloods wanted nothing to do with the mother, they would, no must, see that these circumstances were horrifying and the child needed to be loved.
But the pure-blood were already tainted with the scandal of child and were allowing any more gossip to spread regarding their name, so they quickly slammed the door in the ministry officials face. He himself was a poor man with no wife or children, nor did he want any (he was very gay but this was very taboo within this era and therefor would not allow him to rise within the ministry, which was extremely unfair as he was a very talented man) but saw after this immoral family had shown its true colours meant that he believed she should grow up with her riddled mother whom could hopefully provide her with some love, in an safe environment, and not with a Unknown wizarding family. So he instead made a brave decision to put her in the care of St. Munglos, as there were no appropriate wizarding orphanages.
This lead to the name Nagini, who saw the road the evil, pure-blood grandparents lived on a decided that she should have some ties to her roots, as above all family meant everything ,even when they where decisively malefic.