4/26/2023 0 Comments Elder wand![]() ![]() ![]() Rowling’s task here, then, is not to build a bridge - her previous novels and screenplay connect the worlds - but to build the plotline and history of the Potter adventures that we didn’t know, most importantly, the background of Albus Dumbledore. ![]() Those unfamiliar with Hogwarts, Muggle-Wizard relations, even the relatively detailed history of Dumbledore and Grindelwald will find the Fantastic Beasts films a bizarre instance of experimental theater in which all the essential back story is left unspoken. The prequel Beasts series would be unintelligible except for the twenty years of Wizarding World building that preceded it. There is already a bridge, of course, linking the two stories. I want to briefly discuss here why we know this is the case and what happened in Crimes of Grindelwald to build the Scamander-Potter Bridge and reveal mastery of the Elder Wand. A key piece of that bridge building is going to be the three Deathly Hallows and, specifically, the Elder Wand. Rowling has said that her Fantastic Beasts films are about “how Dumbledore became Dumbledore.” Whatever you make of that, I think the obvious point too easily neglected is that this film franchise will lead, not just to the 1945 battle between Gellert Grindelwald and Albus Dumbledore, but, more importantly, to a bridge connecting this series with the Hogwarts Saga. ![]()
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