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After brushing the midnight scene and premiere day of "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", have all the wizards and wizards been overwhelmed by the happiness of going home?
This time, the protagonist has changed, the divine beast has changed, but the habit of The Great God Rowling who has been buried for ten years has not changed! It's still that authentic pure-blood wizarding world. At first glance, "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" is showing a new world setting, but in the bones and blood, a string of high-pitched side plots of "Harry Potter" is completely connected...
1. Grindelwald was Voldemort's predecessor
After watching the movie, I found that the original male protagonist Newt was just a cover for the mythical beast, and everything was paving the way for the Dark Lord Grindelwald to appear. Grindelwald was definitely Voldemort's "predecessor", the last generation of the Wizarding World's Great Demon.
Like Voldemort in the Philosopher's Stone movie, Grindelwald only hears his name and does not see him, although in the wizarding public opinion circle angry sense of existence, but the Buddha appears only twice at the beginning and the end, a total of two lines.
2. Why didn't Newt go to New York with the Phantom Shapeshifter?
Over and over again in the film, we see the protagonists performing phantom transfiguration magic, suddenly disappearing from one place to another. So some people must be curious, why does a veteran British wizard have to take muggle customs and take a ferry across the ocean to New York?
Rowling recently answered this question on Twitter. First of all, phantom transfiguration is limited by distance, and it is more difficult to succeed as the distance increases, especially if this kind of cross-border transfer is more dangerous. According to the original Harry Potter description, the failure of the Phantom Transfiguration will cause "splitting", and the forced Phantom Transfiguration will most likely end in the United States with your upper body and your lower body still in the United Kingdom.
In the N newspapers that flashed at the beginning of the movie, there was a headline that read, "The United States prohibits the breeding of magical animals", so Newt actually broke into the United States with a box of contraband, and Muggle security checks are naturally better than American wizards. In addition, the box of magical beasts themselves has magic, and the effect of the phantom shapeshifter on them is unpredictable. The risk is so great, it is better to take a boat in a low profile.
3. What's the origin of the Deathly Hallows Necklace?
The Deathly Hallows represent three magical treasures, the Cloak of Invisibility, the Resurrection Stone, and the Elder Wand, and are said to have the power to defeat Death if you master the Deathly Hallows. Although the whole concept was only introduced at the end of Harry Potter, elements of the Deathly Hallows actually run through the entire series: Harry's ancestral Cloak of Invisibility is one of the three Deathly Hallows; Dumbledore has always been the owner of the Elder Wand.
The Harry Potter series writes that Grindelwald and Dumbledore were obsessed with studying the legend of deathly hallows when they were young, and Dumbledore would draw a deathly hallows in the initial A of the name as a secret sign for the two of them. Later, Grindelwald and his followers used the Deathly Hallows as a symbol, like Voldemort's Dark Mark.
In Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Grindelwald, disguised as Graves, gives credence the Deathly Hallows necklace to Credence in exchange for trust, while also laying the groundwork for the final revelation of his true identity.
4. Dumbledore's sister also had silence?
In 2001, rowling conceived a magical world publishing house called SilentLy, when she published the fantastic beasts and where to find them, and it was at their expense that Newt Scamander traveled the world to write the book.
In the film, Obscurus becomes the dark magic energy generated by young wizards due to the suppression of magical abilities, they rely on the host wizard to exist, and have a terrible attack power that erupts at any time, like an irregular nuclear bomb. With a silent possession, Credence is easily reminiscent of Dumbledore's sister Ariana.
It is written that Ariana's magical abilities suddenly exploded at the age of 6 and attacked the Muggle boy, and the Dumbledore family, fearing that she would lose control again, hid her in the snow and declared her to be a "Squib", that is, a person born in a magical family but could not do magic.
In 1899, when the hot-blooded young Dumbledore and Grindelwald were in a honeymoon period of friendship, the two were killed in a spell melee due to a fierce dispute that caused Ariana to explode in the presence of the magic melee, and from this moment on, Dumbledore and Grindelwald broke with Grindelwald completely.
5. Why did Grindelwald travel to the United States to find silence?
In 1926, when the film takes place, the 43-year-old Grindelwald has just started an affair in a vain attempt to bring the world to the feet of wizards. Although he had a group of supporters, he had not yet established a firm rule in Europe, and was still far from the peak of his power and magical abilities.
In search of weapons for mass terror attacks, Grindelwald may have taken inspiration from Dumbledore's sister. In the film, Grindelwald, dressed as Graves, induces Credence several times to describe to him the future he sees: "I clearly see that this child is very close to your adoptive mother, and I see that in the future you will stand side by side with me..."
This style of magic stick painting is reminiscent of Professor Trelawney's famous prediction in Harry Potter: "The boy with the energy to conquer the Dark Devil's head is approaching, he was born at the end of July..." Grindelwald's motivation to go to the United States to find weapons may lead to another prophecy that runs through the Fantastic Beasts series.
6. How backward is the American Wizarding World?
The cultural differences in the Anglo-American wizarding world are not just that Americans refer to Muggles (people who can't do magic) as No-Maj. To borrow Newt's words: "Your attitude towards Muggles is too backward." American wizards have always lived in anonymity, not daring to show their magic in the Muggle/Maggle world, and if they are not careful, they will be hunted down by fanatical witch hunters. There are also a group of traitors in the wizarding world who will collect bounties from non-magicians and use spells to hunt down their fellow citizens.
To keep the wizarding world safe from the risk of revealing their true bodies, the Wizarding Government of the United States Magical Congress (MACUSA) has established a number of provisions to regulate wizarding behavior, including requiring all wizards to register their wands (mapping gun control regulations), not allowing them to keep magical animals (too easy to generate attention), and not making friends or intermarrying with Muggles/mochi. Both the beginning of the film and the newspaper headlines that appear at MACUSA's headquarters hint at the harsh living conditions of American wizards.
7. Does the Magical Congress of the United States look familiar?
The U.S. Magical Congress (MACUSA) functions the equivalent of the British Ministry of Magic, but is much taller internally. At least employees don't have to deliberately slip into phone booths or flush themselves out of the toilet, they can mingle in the street crowds and enter MACUSA headquarters from the revolving doors of the Woolworth Building, the real-world New York skyline. Rowling is said to have chosen this place because there is an owl statue above the entrance to the Woolworth Building, a representative element of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter.
The circular emblem of MACUSA is engraved with the full name Magical Congress of the United States of America, which is different from the Star-Spangled Banner + Mountain Eagle logo of the Muggle/Makhon Government of the United States, which is the design of the Star-Spangled Banner + Phoenix. A total of 48 stars appear on the MACUSA logo (including those surrounded by phoenix wings) because Alaska and Hawaii had not yet joined the United States in 1926.
The design of MACUSA headquarters has many places that will evoke memories of Harry Potter. For example, the ceiling of the hall, like Hogwarts, does not see the dome and only shows the weather; the hanging wall clock is like the wall clock of the Weasley family, which does not do such a trivial thing as just showing time, but turns the hands according to the level of exposure of the wizarding world; the MACUSA hall, like the British Ministry of Magic, hangs a huge portrait of the president or minister at the time.
The macUSA chairman in the movie is not small, Rowling has previously written the history of North American magic, and has mentioned that this Ms. Serafina Pickcory is a rare genius girl in a decade, and her execution and determination are extraordinary, it is no wonder that in the face of Grindelwald's ferocious attack, she can not change her heart.
8. Wizarding United Nations alludes to World War II Europe?
After Henry Shaw was hunted in silence, a delegation of international wizarding governments appeared en masse at MACUSA. One of the wizards who recognized Newt was Hector Faroli, then Minister for Magic of the United Kingdom, who had always despised Grindelwald's threat, and his inaction helped Grindelwald grow in Europe, and Rowling created a role that also deliberately alluded to the British Prime Minister Chamberlain who connived at Hitler during World War II.
9. Who is the girl in Newt's suitcase photo?
Newt is carrying a picture of a girl with her, and from the movie we know her name is Rita Lestrange. This surname was the family name of Bellatrix, voldemort's most loyal follower of the Harry Potter era. Lestrange is a well-known pure-blood family in Britain, and like the Malfoy family, it is inseparable from the black magic. By generation, Rita should be a generation with Bella's parents.
Queenie reads Newt's thoughts and concludes that Rita is a selfish character who is blindly demanding. However, she was also Newt's only friend during his time at Hogwarts.
In the film, Graves mentions that he was fired from Hogwarts for touching magical beasts to hurt others, and how harmless Newt does not look like a person who would do such a thing, and recently Rowling finally revealed the reason for Newt's dismissal: "He was fired for others", which is the same as Hagrid who was wronged in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. It's not hard to guess that Rita is probably what caused Newt to leave Hogwarts.
In addition, after being expelled from Hogwarts, he was broken along with his wand. Hagrid had secretly repaired the broken wand and disguised it as an umbrella, so why was Newt able to keep his wand? Rowling said that this is also a clue she buried, and the reason will be revealed in the future story.
Newt told Jacob that he had fought with the Ukrainian Iron-bellied Dragon during World War I. This dragon appears in the Harry Potter and deathly hallows :2) movie, where Harry, Ron, and Hermione break into the underground vault of the Lestrange family guarded by an iron belly in Ukraine, where they find the Hufflepuff Golden Cup of Voldemort's Horcrux, and finally the trio rides the dragon to overturn the roof of the Wizarding Bank Gringotts. Seventy years later, this vault watchdog may have a relationship with Newt's "comrades-in-arms" when he fought.
10. Where is the best magic school?
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them tells us that there is a Hogwarts-like presence in the United States – the Ifamani School of Witchcraft and Wizardry! It was there that Sisters Queenie and Tina graduated, deeply believing that Ifamani was the best school in the world.
In fact, Ifamani was founded by a Hogwarts fan who came to the United States. The founder of Yfamuni was named Isot Sel, a descendant of Salazar Slytherin, one of the four founders of Hogwarts, who was imprisoned by her aunt who was obsessed with black magic and was not allowed to go to Hogwarts to learn magic, and later fled to the United States, where she founded Iffamanny based on her expectations of Hogwarts.
11. How does Grindelwald reveal his identity?
Newt is good at observing not only animals, but also humans. Grindelwald's disguised Graves reveals flaws as MACUSA interrogates Newt.
Why would america's Auror ministers know about the expulsion of an obscure British wizard? Why is dumbledore's relationship with Newt clear? Why do you feel that the silence of losing the host is "useless"? Newt, who had a good personal relationship with Dumbledore, may also know about Arianna's past, the battle in the subway station, Newt was abused by the fake Graves, and looking at the remarks he preached, all the information added up made Newt suspicious of him.
12. How is the New York Hemp Chicken erased from its memory?
At the end of the film, Thunderbird is mixed with the venom of the Winged Demon in the torrential rain, and the venom is diluted by the rain to remove the unpleasant memories of magic in the New York Hemp Chicken.
All the hemp chickens that have been erased from memory are directly or indirectly touched by rainwater, many are directly rained (such as Jacob), and some are exposed to memory elimination water that has been filtered and piped by drinking water or bathing (Mr. Bentley, a banker), and finally forget everything that happened in these two days.
【Free-range egg farming】
1. The most famous musical symbol of the "Harry Potter" series, Hedwig's main melody clip, sounded three times in the opening and in the film
2. Newt adjusts the suitcase to Muggle-visible pattern while passing through customs, and a yellow-and-black scarf appears inside the box, which marks his attendance at Hufflepuff House at Hogwarts.
3. Quidditch Terrier: Newt bumps into a second Salem anti-wizard rally as soon as New York arrives, and Mary Lou Byrburn asks him, "Are you a seeker?" Looking for the truth? ”（Are you a seeker？ a seeker of truth?)
In addition to the meaning of the seeker, the Seeker also represents the "seeker" in the Quidditch game (responsible for catching the golden snitch, such as Harry's role in the Gryffindor team), Newt mistakenly thinks that he is talking about Quidditch, and responds: "I'm more of a chaser", chaser represents the chaser in the Quidditch game (responsible for throwing the red ghost flying ball into the round frame to score), and also has the meaning of the suitor, so Newt's answer will not be misunderstood by Muggles. What they hear means "I'm more of a suitor" is.
4. Some of the magical and magical creatures that appeared in the Harry Potter movies also made cameo appearances in the film, newt chest contains the water monster Grindillo, who appeared in the second item of the Goblet of Fire, Newt and his party appeared in the underground tavern with a troll and a receptionist house-elf who drank alone, and the owner of the tavern belonged to the goblin family with the salesman of the Wizarding Bank in Diagon Alley.
5. Merlin is busy: The name of the Great Magician "Merlin" is the favorite exclamation word prefix of English wizards, and it is abused to the same extent as the word "God" in Muggle language. "Merlin bless", "Merlin's beard", "Benevolent Merlin" are common mantras, "The Half-Blood Prince" becomes the couch of the potion professor was punctured by Dumbledore and spewed out the exclamation words "Merlin's beard", which is also Newt's favorite mantra. Tina and other American wizards have similar phrases such as "O benevolent Lewis" and "Morrigan bless".
6． In Rowling's original setting, Newt Scamander's grandson marries Harry's classmate Luna.
【How to shoot next】
1. Rowling reveals that Newt Scamander is still the main character in the sequel, and that Tina, Queenie, and Jacob will all return in the second installment. In the sequel, Depp's role in Grindelwald will be aggravated, and the young Dumbledore is about to appear and is currently choosing an actor. The second part will have Dumbledore's rivalry with Newt.
2. One of the Deathly Hallows, the Old Wand, will appear in the sequel, and in the second part, there will be magical animals from China, and Rowling says that it is not a fire dragon.
3. There are four more Fantastic Beasts sequels to be released in the future, and the title will be Fantastic Beasts XXX, maintaining the unified style of the Harry Potter series Harry Potter and XXX.
4. The Fantastic Beasts five-part story will span 19 years (Rowling prefers to use cycle numbers), which means that the last film will end in 1945, the year of the Great Showdown between Dumbledore and Grindelwald that shocked the wizarding world.
5. The next story is dominated by Britain and France, and the American wizarding world is no longer the main narrative line.
6. The second Fantastic Beasts movie will begin filming in the first half of next year and will be released in November 2018, still directed by David Yates and written by Rowling.