Time Editorial Department | Zhen Zi
I'm completely cured.
The third installment of the Fantastic Beasts series, The Mystery of Dumbledore, has now been released in China, and it is clear that its reputation is lower than expected, even worse than the first two works.
There are also many people who react and can't understand it.
As a prequel to Harry Potter, the two series, in addition to having the same magical worldview, do have a deeper connection this time, if it is not an HP level 10 scholar, it is likely to see the clouds in the clouds.
Time Jun summarized 13 of them worth noting, so that everyone can "make up lessons" together.
01 Fantastic Beasts
The Fantastic Beasts series originally came from a Hogwarts "textbook" Written by Rowling in her early years, "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", and the author of this book is the protagonist of the "Fantastic Beasts" film series (perhaps now a supporting actor?). Newt Scamander.
This book is neither a novel (like the harry potter original) nor a screenplay (like the fantastic beasts script book), and can be said to be an index of "magical beasts", encompassing all kinds of knowledge about them.
Therefore, the "Fantastic Beasts" movie series must be indispensable to the amazing appearances of various magical animals such as sniffing, tree protection, donkey, thunderbird, horse-shaped water monster, poisonous horned beast and so on.
Every time I sniff, I try to contribute to the famous scene
In the original Harry Potter series, animals such as phoenixes, night horses, dragons, and buckbeaks also played important roles in different stages of Harry's life.
In "Fantastic Beasts 3", there are new unicorns, scorpion tail beasts, air winged birds and other new attractions.
02
Compound decoction
The clever "Gryffindor Jackie" (not Professor Snape's phrase wouldn't have meant it) Hermione Granger could have made a compound decoction in second grade!
This potion that makes you look like someone else for a short time is a powerful potion in the Harry Potter series— Harry and Ron sneaking into the Slytherin Lounge, Barty Crouch Jr. becoming Professor Moody, and the Iron Triangle breaking into the Ministry of Magic, and even the Seven Harry's Privet Road Transfer Program.
In Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Grindelwald also relied on the credit of the compound decoction when he disguised himself as the security minister of the U.S. Magical Congress.
In addition, Grindelwald can change three faces in this series, can it also be explained?
03 Secrets of the Dumbledores
In the Harry Potter series, thanks to the famous gossip journalist Rita Skeeter's The Life and Lies of Dumbledore, Harry learns about the Headmaster's early love-hate relationship with Grindelwald and the tragedy that happened to Dumbledore's sister Ariane.
"Fantastic Beasts 3" is back to the subtitle of "Dumbledore's Mystery", which is actually a pun.
On the one hand, it should intuitively show the secret relationship between Dumbledore and his old lover Grindelwald, and revive the family tragedy between Dumbledore's brothers and sisters.
On the other hand, it is also necessary to reveal the true identity of The Silent Claydens, Aurelius Dumbledore. Although for Ha fans, this reversal is also quite speechless.
04 International Ministry of Magic
According to the setting, many countries have their own Ministries of Magic, and the organizational structure is not the same, and the Corresponding to the British Ministry of Magic is that the United States performs the function of "government" called the Magical Congress (MACUSA).
The supreme leader of the Magical Congress of the United States is the President, while the supreme leader of the British Ministry of Magic is the Minister. A similar difference is that in Harry Potter, the British called the unintelligible muggle, while the Americans called the person "No-Maj."
One of the most important plots of Fantastic Beasts 3 is that Dumbledore wants to prevent Grindelwald from running for the new president of the International Wizarding League.
This also opens up a more ambitious wizarding world for us, where the story does not focus on the United Kingdom and the United States, and the presidential candidates also include the magical leader Liu Xi from China, and the election site is also placed in the mysterious ancient country of Bhutan.
Although this scene can also be ignored
05 Magic World Entrance
Just as there is Diagon Alley in London, England, other large cities where magicians gather also have special places like "Diagon Alley" that connect the Muggle world with the wizarding world.
There are similar circuses in Paris, France, and this place in New York, USA, also has a bar opened by goblins , similar to london's leaky cauldron bar.
In Fantastic Beasts 3, we'll also see that Berlin, Germany, also has such a "special place."
In addition to the entrance to the wizarding world, the entrance to the Ministry of Magic is also set up in the bustling Center of Muggle City, hidden by magic, with special entrances or passwords, which only wizards can freely enter and exit.
Unlike the telephone booths in London (code 62442 - magic), the entrance to the Ministry of Magic in Paris is a fountain with a statue behind it.
06 Rita Lestrange
True HP fans will be shocked when they hear the name "Lestrange".
Voldemort's first deputy in the Harry Potter series, Bellatrix Lestrange, was married to her husband— she was a member of the Black family and married to Rodolphs Lestranch.
In the Fantastic Beasts series, Rita is the fiancée of her older brother Theseus and the ex-girlfriend of her younger brother Newt.
The film spends an entire episode exploring the blood relationship between Rita and Claydens, and the final conclusion is that there is no relationship, but it also allows Rita to hang up.
By the third installment, the relationship between the Scamander brothers looks good, and although it was a little awkward when they first reunited, they were not unable to communicate with Rita's death.
07 Silent Books
In the Harry Potter world, the Wizarding Books Publishing House that published Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is called Silent Books.
The word "silent" in Fantastic Beasts refers to a dark magical force in the wizarding world.
Young wizards suppress their magical powers in order to escape their fate, but due to the lack of guidance, they do not learn to control and control their own powers, so they give birth to parasites, the dark magical power silent.
The silent host is called the "Silent One", and Credence and Old Deng's sister Ariane are among them, and Credence's great power has been coveted by Grindelwald.
But Credence also single-handedly proved that the Silent one is still saved.
08 Return to Hogwarts
Every time a Scene from Hogwarts appears in Fantastic Beasts, BGM is the most famous "Hydrowell Variation" from the Harry Potter films, composed by john Williams, who is the author of the book.
In Fantastic Beasts 3, Newt and his party not only use the Pig's Head Bar in Hogsmeade Village as a meeting place, Dumbledore also let Jacob, the chosen melon, enter Hogwarts for the first time.
Let's say which Muggle doesn't envy and hate?
09 Other HP Easter eggs
Fantastic Beasts 3 invited Steve Cloffs, an old screenwriter in the Harry Potter series, to return and write the script with Rowling, so the concentration of emotional killing was also the fullest.
In addition to returning to Hogwarts, the film can also see golden snitch, Quidditch matches, taste of the whole candy, biting brutal monster book, old Deng's classic "XXXX Academy plus three points" and so on.
Have you noticed?
10 Professor McGonagall
Professor McGonagall's appearance was also a big surprise!
During the Harry Potter period, Professor McGonagall was born in 1935 and only began teaching at Hogwarts in 1956.
However, in the 1920s, when the Fantastic Beasts films took place, Minerva McGonagall appeared as a young woman, and Professor McGonagall's birth year on Pottermore was also deleted, feeling the efforts of the crew.
11 A house of needs
Of course, you can't leave out the Room of Requirement.
The House of Needs in the Harry Potter series is a magical place to get into when one really needs it.
This is the secret stronghold where Harry led D.A. to magical training, where he and Cho Zhang's first kiss, where he hid the Half-Blood Prince's Potions textbook; Malfoy's introduction of Death Eaters to Hogwarts through the House of Requirement, killing Headmaster Dumbledore; Ravenclaw's crown, one of Voldemort's Horcruxes, also hidden here...
In the Fantastic Beasts series, as an important part of Hogwarts, the House of Requirement also plays a role.
12 The Mirror of Eris
In the Harry Potter series, little Harry once stood in front of Eris's sunglasses, looking hungrily at his parents and other deceased family members in the mirror — a mirror that shows your deepest desires.
Headmaster Dumbledore had lied to Harry that what he saw in the mirror was himself with a pair of woolen socks in his hand.
We see in the Fantastic Beasts series that the young Dumbledore, in the mirror, is actually his once best friend, his ex-boyfriend Grindelwald (at the time, depp's face...). ）。
13 Blood Covenant
Although harry was not told, Dumbledore was truthfully "coming out" in front of Newt and his party.
He told everyone that he and Grindelwald had made a "blood pact" because of their love for each other, and the two could not hurt each other, so they had to ask them to deal with him.
However, at the end of Fantastic Beasts 3, the two wield magic wands for a duel, and Dumbledore's Blood Pact Bottle is broken at this time.
As for Grindelwald's Blood Pact Bottle, he wore it all his life.
The last question is after watching the movie, have you arrived?
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