Better cue your YouTube recaps ASAP.īut back when J.K. A moviegoer has to be a scholar in the now-convoluted cosmology that powers these Potterverse expansion-pack prequels or abandon all hope of understanding a fraction of what’s happening - and even a lot of die-hard Harryheads may find their hippocampus getting seriously taxed while trying to catch up. All of the above information is either as well known to you as your own family history, or means absolutely nothing to you whatsoever.
This is where audiences find themselves upon entering The Secrets of Dumbledore, the third Fantastic Beasts entry that both illustrates and further underlines the difference between franchises then and now. OK, right, so when last we left Newt Scamander ( Eddie Redmayne), the socially awkward magical zoologist renowned as a scholar of fantastic beasts (and not coincidentally, where to find them!), he was preparing - along with Albus Dumbledore ( Jude Law), hot-for-teacher Hogwarts’ hunk and future Harry Potter mentor - to take on the evil wizard/ex-Dumbledore lover Gellert Grindelwald ( Mads Mikkelsen), as well as Grindelwald’s partners in crime Credence Barebone (Ezra Miller) and Queenie Goldstein (Alison Sudol), a New Yawk-accented witch who you might remember converted to the dark side in order to save her soulmate, the baker Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler), though that doesn’t mean that she doesn’t still love him or that he won’t join up with Newt and Newt’s Ministry-of-Magic mucky-muck brother, Theseus (Callum Turner), as well as Yusuf Kama (William Nadylam), the kinda-sorta brother of the Scamander siblings’ mutual love interest Leta Lestrange, a surname that’s undoubtedly familiar to you because
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