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In some ways I think having that bit of a story around it, some tea stains there and a folded over corner here where someone's enjoyed reading it - I think that adds to the magic

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Heyo all! I'm wondering if r/FantasticBeasts has a Discord server. If it doesn't, should we maybe make one?

Their love knew no bounds ❤️my resorting l favourite couple ❤️

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I’m rewatching the first FB movie and I don’t understand why did Newt and Queenie use “wandbrellas” when Frank brought the rain but the Aurors didn’t? They were just walking the streets putting things back together with no protection. How were they not obliviated?

At first I thought it’s because they all had hats on but most of the no-maj’s had hats on so I don’t get why they were unaffected.

I just recently watched the 3 fantastic beasts movies, and was shocked by how good they were! (Mainly the first. The other two were mediocre at best. Still enjoyed nonetheless lol.) After watching them all during my seasonal HP marathon, I came to the conclusion that the first fantastic beasts movie is definitely my favorite. This is not me saying the HP movies aren’t on par, souly a preference! I really enjoyed having a new perspective with a fresh look at the wizarding world and the more mature tone that accompanied it! I also really loved the character of newt schamander and the relationships between him, jacob, queenie, and tina. Plus, the focus on newts magical beasts really sold me. I really do wish the other two movies in the series went a different route. I feel as if the series definitely had wasted potential.

Did anyone notice the amount of awkward closeups in the second film? Is there a specific reason they went with these shots?

Maybe it's just an impression, but a few years ago when the movies came out everyone was criticizing them, and now everyone seems to like them...

Would Voldemort have still hated Muggleborns and etc if he himself had been a Pureblood?

Was just wondering? Let’s say Tom Riddle Sr wasn’t his Father and instead it was a famous and powerful Wizard like Grindelwald himself.

Would he still have hated the Muggleborns?

I always thought his Hatred for Muggleborns came from him having a Muggle Father so what if he was actually the illegitimate son of a powerful Pureblood and his Mother Merope wasn’t a screw-up. Like let’s say the Witch Vinda Rosier in FB is actually Merope Gaunt and he was actually her and Grindelwald’s Son and was hidden away in Wool’s Orphanage so they could focus on their Revultion. How would he have reacted?

Would he still have been a Pureblood Supremacist or would he have taken up his Father’s Ideals?

Would he have still killed the Riddle’s despite finding out he is not related to them at all? Like let’s say Tom was only named after Riddle cuz Tom Riddle Sr was a childhood friend of Merope who was told by herself that she was a Witch?

Like let’s say Vinda is actually Merope who ran away from Little Hangilton and with the help of her Rich Mugglefriend got herself a Ticket to France and was adopted by the Rosiers. She attended Durmstrang and later joined Grindelwald. Then in 1927 December 31st as the result of a night of Passion Tom is born.

Grindelwald orders Merope to hide him in a place Dumbledore would not find their son so she decides to hide him right in front of Dumbledore and the Ministry and gives him the name of her childhood Friend. She then oblivates the Matron of Wool’s orphanage giving her false Memories and off she goes. How would Tom react?

I am sure there already is a post about this but I was few days ago binge watching the whole trilogy and, of course, i had to pay most attantion to my favorite character aka Dumbledore and then i realizated, how does it seen like he knows everything or has a step by step plan? Like how did he knee in cog Newt would need a safe house or how in sod he knew about the assasination + where was Theseus sended? Is there any answer or is it just a bit of a plot hole?

Does this post even make sense?

I have the JJPotter fan edits of 1 - 3 which reintegrates the released cut scenes back into the movies. I was wondering what else got cut and came across an old post. Here It claims 46 scenes were cut from CoG, with a commentor listing 10 that are unreleased. How do people know about these scenes? I have tried looking up info for them and I've found nothing on them so how do some people know of them. Were they actually filmed or just scripted?

• Yusuf Kama transforming into a crow
• Flamel giving out crossaints by the end
• Leta and Tina fighting Matagots
• Newt and Theseus at a bar
• Newt and Theseus at Hogwarts, Theseus flying by the window
• the incident that led to Newt's expulsion
• Grindelwald talking to Queenie a second time
• Rosier and Nagel spying in Paris (as seen in the trailer)
• Grindelwald looking at Queenie sitting at the sofa, wrapped in a blanket
• Queenie holding onto Grindelwald's arm at the Lestrange crypt

This scene strikes me as very out of character for Gellert Grindelwald. This scene is when they get cof raid cofcof* the muggle house in Paris. When they hear a child's voice and they go and 💀 it. Well, that scene seems like a 🗑️ to me and so out of character. I mean, you're telling me that the great wizard Gellert Grindelwald is incapable of 💀 a baby? Really? And it's from the first scenes! That's when I really shit on the character (not to mention that I think that, even though Deep did an excellent job with Gellert, in this movie he looks like an ice robot who acts for the sake of acting, I'll talk about it in another post). I can understand that in movies and videogames children are "untouchable". but you are making a series of a crazy, deranged psychopath, you can't come to me to make a scene like this. What did they want to show? That Gellert has feelings? "It's just that well, it's not so bad because he doesn't 💀a that kid" NO!!!!. And I could go on explaining thousands of reasons , but I think my point was understood haha. You guys what do you think about this scene? Is it ok of the character or do you think it's out of place too? I read you!

What do you think Abernathy and Nagini’s roles in SoD were in the 2018 screenplay before the stuff with the actors caused them to be cut from the film?

FB cannon is that Aberforth fathered Credence, which was... unexpected. It has been suspected by some that this origin story is a Kloves/WBD retcon to wrap up the series. What do you think Rowling's original plan for the Credence origin story was?

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Very recently I rewatched the whole trilogy with my boyfriend and we loved the experience. I’ve always been a Fantastic Beasts fan but rewatching again my first thought is that these movies are way better than I used to remember. Especially Crimes of Grindelwald.

However Secrets of Dumbledore is a movie that left a bitter taste in my mouth. Not because I think the movie is bad (in fact it is my second favorite from the trilogy), but only because it doesn't feel like a JKR story at all. It feels like a story roughly based on a JKR story. It’s like watching a Harry Potter movie. You know that it is a JKR story but it doesn't feel like one because another person wrote it. It does have the “foundation” but it lacks the nuances that make her stories so good.

Secrets of Dumbledore is very plot-driven. Although JKR does care a lot about a well-rounded plot, she’s most known for her characters. And they are generally very charismatic and complex. Even the minor ones. Something that Secrets of Dumbledore lacks and Where to Find Them and Crimes do pretty well. The movie is about a election but we barely know anything about the other candidates besides Grindelwald. Lally is introduced but we know nothing about her. She’s a teacher and that’s all. Bunty ditto. Newt and Theseus’ relationship is awkward again even though they made a little progress in CoG.

Not to mention the whole Credence thing. The end of CoG is very dramatic and made us think that Credence’s origin was something big and dirty about Dumbledore but it's actually something very simple. It’s not bad but it’s anticlimactic. It doesn't feel like a writing decision that JKR would make. I feel like the plot was simplified for the audience because people thought that cog was too complicated.

I've been rewatching the series so far. My favorite character has always been Jacob. Who is yours and why?

Taken from a blog i did years ago:

n 2016, J.K. Rowling revealed the name of the School of Magic in America. Similar to Hogwarts, the American school of magic has a sub-name akin to Hogwarts unlike Durmstrang or Beaubaxton, being an "Institute" and an "Acadamy". The American school is called 'Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry'.

Hogwarts name means something as a theory and to Rowling. The school has statues of flying pigs (Hogs), the name came from a plant she knew as child with her mother. Ilvermorny in the story, however, came from Isolt's cottage in Ireland and nothing more. In reality? It is utterly made up. Has no meaning behind it.

Yet, she had to have gotten it from something. J.K. Rowling was an English Teacher after all, and Language, to me, played a role in developing the name. How did she come up with such a name? I think she combined components of languages. Specifically suffixes.

Il-Ver-Mor-Ny...

-il as in illusion but as a noun is iller or long years. In French il is from Latin ille from Proto-Indo-European alter, uls, and alius meaning (The) Other or Beyond.

-Ver is a Root meaning Truth.

-Morn comes from the old English Morgen meaning Morning. Or as “the mourn” meaning tomorrow. It also means Countable or uncountable as a noun. Morgen comes from Godmorgen (Good Morning) which is Norwegian. Morgen is a measure of land, but are also Welsh and Breton water spirits that drown men or sirens or mermaids. The ruler of Avalon in King Arthur is Morgen and also shares the name with Morgan de fay. There’s also The Morrigan to consider in Irish lore who is the aunt and nickname of Isolt. However, as I used ‘n’ it’s actually Mor or Mourus “moor” Mauritanian or Mauritania; a kingdom in Northern Africa. Mor means large, great, or increase by, in Irish.

-Ny as a Hungarian suffix is added to form a noun or adjectives like Mazony meaning fields or Sovany meaning thin or slim. It also means as an English suffix “characterized by or inclined to”.

Therefore there is a possible motto or tagline that Ilvermorny does have inside the meaning of its name. The possible result is "Characterized by large years of truth". "Beyond Truth" is also something I put together a well as "Inclined to Truth". This is certainly different from Hogwart's motto who has a funny way of warning students to NOT TO GO LOOKING FOR TROUBLE.

What do you think? If you read this as a form of motto or message to the students or about the students that Isolt chose to adopt from her house.

Mine is the Lethifold, especially with the illustration from the fully illustrated version.

After having seen the 3rd film last night for the first time I thought I go back and watch 1st two films and they were fun they had their moments took me almost the whole second film to realize that was Zoey Kravitz lol over all I enjoyed these films I think the canceled films were a good thing I don’t think I would want to sit through another two or three films with these characters respectfully I think most people would agree that Harry potter is more interesting franchise of the two!