![]() ![]() While Harry Potter fans will know that there have been magical characters born to non-magical parents (like Hermione Granger), and non-magical characters born to magical parents (Squibs like Argus Filch), Jacob is the first Muggle/No-Maj character we will ever see in the magical world! He is a factory worker that meets Newt and somehow finds himself in a whole new world. If that headline is anything to go by, there’s a group of Muggles/No-Maj’s on the hunt for magic users! Also, it’s just really awesome to see a magical newspaper again! ![]() This little magic latch that changes the appearance of Newt’s suitcase is very cool, but I also thought I’d mention that in America, where most of Fantastic Beasts is set, the wizards and witches that live there call people without magic ‘No-Maj’, so we may not see or hear the word ‘Muggles’ used very much! This trailer shows heaps more than the first one – here are the little details I caught that I found most interesting!Īpparently Albus Dumbledore likes and trusts Newt Scamander! Since the movie is set in 1920, Dumbledore would have been a young teacher just starting at Hogwarts, so it sounds like he didn’t have the authority to stop Newt from being expelled, but it is definitely cool to hear Dumbledore mentioned, and to hear his opinion of the star of Fantastic Beasts! ![]() After all, at this point in his Harry Potter tenure, director Yates knows not to stint on the magic.įantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald arrives in theaters November 16, 2018.Prepare to cast a quick fireworks spell and whip up a celebratory cake in your cauldrons Potterheads – a new Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them trailer has dropped and it’s awesome! We also get a brief glimpse of the intriguing Leta Lestrange ( Zoë Kravitz), Newt’s mysterious first love.īut if this all seems eerily on the nose and darkly political, fear not: There are also plenty of fantastic beasts in abundance, including a phoenix and what looks like a cute little magical praying mantis/plant hybrid known as a Bowtruckle. Most of the cast from the previous film also seems to be returning, including Katherine Waterston as Newt’s girlfriend Tina and Alison Sudol as her sister Queenie, along with Newt’s Muggle sidekick Jacob ( Dan Fogler). It appears Dumbledore himself is also in the hot seat for protecting Newt’s whereabouts - but we all know our favorite professor can handle himself under pressure from authorities. Harry Potter fans who’ve long wanted to know more about the history of the fractured friendship between Grindelwald and the heroic Professor Dumbledore (played this time around by Jude Law) will get their wish: Dumbledore enlists Newt to help him track down his former friend, and the trailer shows teacher and student forming an unlikely alliance to catch him. The sequel picks up with Grindelwald escaping and fleeing the American Magical Congress. ![]() The first F antastic Beasts movie purported to focus on hapless Newt’s antics in America as he chased a coterie of adorable CGI creatures, but it veered into more somber themes - with heavy allegorical references to the need to drive shadowy extremist forces into the light, culminating in Grindelwald’s capture at the end of the 2016 film. The historical timeline of Grindelwald’s rise corresponds generally to the rise of Nazi Germany, and Rowling has always heavily allegorized Grindelwald as the Wizarding World’s version of Hitler. Rowling is taking fans into one of the Wizarding World’s darkest periods: the rise of the Dark Lord Grindelwald, revealed at the end of the previous film to be a bleached-blond Johnny Depp. And as a bonus, it’s taking us back to Hogwarts to meet up with a beloved character. But the newly released trailer seems to indicate that the second film will dive deeper into the main storyline, one Potter fans know well. The first film - one of a planned five in the expansion series - was hampered by its need to set up plot for the coming four films. Rowling adapting her own slight Harry Potter spinoff book, with direction from David Yates, who helmed the final three Harry Potter films - began with last year’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a lackluster backstory centered on Eddie Redmayne’s Newt Scamander, a plucky hero who gets entangled in larger political forces when he comes to America to repatriate one of the titular magical creatures. The first trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is here, giving Harry Potter fans a glimpse of where this increasingly sprawling saga is headed. ![]()
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