- "Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore" premieres on April 15 in the United States.
- The film delves further into Albus Dumbledore's past, as well as his family's.
- Here are 11 details that you should remember from the franchise before seeing the new film.
Credence joined Grindelwald, who told him at the end of the second film that Credence was part of the Dumbledore family.
Credence, or rather, Aurelius, is also aligned with Grindelwald at the end of the second film, joining him after the rally at the Lestrange mausoleum.
Grindelwald then tells Credence something pivotal about his origins, namely that he's a Dumbledore, and that his brother — presumably Albus — sought to destroy him. This reveal caused quite a bit of confusion at the time: Credence was too young to have been born to Albus, Aberforth, and Ariana's parents, Percival and Kendra, but Grindelwald tells Credence that Albus is his brother.
Queenie joined Grindelwald, and is currently working with him.
During "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald,"Queenie decides to join Grindelwald after he persuades her and plays to her desire to be able to marry Jacob Kowalski, the no-maj (or muggle) who she's forbidden from being in a relationship with by American wizarding laws.
At the end of the film, she leaves Newt, Jacob, and the others behind in favor of Grindelwald. As a natural legilimens, the term for a witch or wizard who has the ability to navigate a person's mind, she also counsels Grindelwald on Credence's mental state at the end of "The Crimes of Grindelwald," telling him that he must be gentle with Credence.
Grindelwald is currently based out of Nurmengard Castle, in Austria.
At the end of "The Crimes of Grindelwald," Grindelwald has taken up residence in Nurmengard Castle with Credence in tow.
While it's Grindelwald's base of operations, we already know the castle eventually became his prison following his defeat by Albus Dumbledore in 1945.
Leta Lestrange died during Grindelwald's Paris rally.
After Grindelwald's rally descends into chaos in "The Crimes of Grindelwald," Grindelwald attempts to bring Leta Lestrange over to his side. She refuses, firing off several spells at him and destroying his skull hookah, before she's eventually consumed by the flames as well.
Before she dies, she turns to the Scamander brothers and says, "I love you."
Yusuf Kama is Leta Lestrange's half-brother.
Yusuf Kama, who was introduced in "The Crimes of Grindelwald," explains to Credence that Corvus Lestrange used the Imperius Curse to seduce his mother Laurena, away from his father, Mustafa Kama. Laurena eventually died while giving birth to Leta Lestrange.
Yusuf was given a mission before his father's death — to kill the person that Corvus Lestrange loved the most in the world, as revenge for Laurena's death. While Yusuf initially thought this to be Leta, he learned that Corvus did not care for his daughter, nor his next wife. Instead, Corvus only cared for his son, also named Corvus.
Upon learning of Yusuf's task, Corvus sent the child and Leta along with Irma Dugard to travel to America. During the journey, as Leta reveals in the Lestrange family mausoleum in "The Crimes of Grindelwald," she swapped Corvus out for another child, eventually leading to him drowning when the ship sank.
At the end of "The Crimes of Grindelwald," Kama escapes Grindelwald's rally alive, traveling to Hogwarts with Newt, Tina, and company.
Dumbledore is currently in possession of the blood pact pendant that binds him to Grindelwald.
Teddy, Newt's niffler, manages to steal the blood pact vial from Grindelwald at the end of the second film. The vial, contained in an amulet on a necklace string, is the physical manifestation of the blood pact that the two had undertaken in order to prevent them from harming each other.
With Dumbledore now in possession of the vial, which contains droplets of his and Grindelwald's blood, it stands to reason that he could figure out a way to break it and thus be able to raise his wand against Grindelwald.
Eulalie "Lally" Hicks briefly appeared in a cameo conversation with Nicholas Flamel in "The Crimes of Grindelwald."
Ilvermorny professor Lally Hicks makes a cameo appearance in "The Crimes of Grindelwald," appearing in a portrait in one of his books. In the exchange, Flamel tells her that he saw Grindelwald rallying at the cemetery that night in his crystal ball, and that he foresaw death. Lally counsels him to intervene, and says that she believes in him.
Nagini, Voldemort's trusted serpent, was revealed to be a Maledictus in "The Crimes of Grindelwald."
In "The Crimes of Grindelwald," Voldemort's serpent Nagini appears. However, it wasn't as a snake — rather, it was as a human woman.
In the film, it's revealed that she's a Maledictus, a person with a blood curse that would eventually permanently transform her into a creature — in her case, a snake. Nagini escapes at the end of the film from Grindelwald's rally and ends up at Hogwarts with Newt, Tina, and company. It's unclear what becomes of her at the end of the film.
Dumbledore's sister, Ariana, died during a three-way duel between him, his brother Aberforth, and Grindelwald.
In "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," Aberforth Dumbledore tells Harry, Ron, and Hermione that his and Albus' sister, Ariana — whose magic "turned inward" after she was attacked by muggles as a child and refused to use it — died in a conflict between the brothers and Grindelwald.
Aberforth tells the trio that Albus became his sister's caretaker after one of her magical outbursts killed their mother. However, his ties to Gellert Grindelwald and their plans to expose magical society for the "greater good" distracted him from Ariana.
When Aberforth confronted Grindelwald and Albus, Grindelwald used the Cruciatus Curse on Aberforth, leading to Albus defending him. The three ended up dueling, and in the crossfire, Ariana ended up dying.
Dumbledore and Grindelwald were lovers in their youth.
J.K. Rowling first said in 2007 that she had thought of Dumbledore as gay, and that the relationship between him and Grindelwald in their youth had been romantic.
In "The Crimes of Grindelwald," Dumbledore sees Grindelwald in the Mirror of Erised, which reflects a person's deepest desires, but their romantic history hasn't otherwise been explicitly depicted in any of the franchise's films or books.
There's an international wizarding governing body known as the International Confederation of Wizards.
Aside from the Ministry of Magic, MACUSA, and other national wizarding world governing bodies, there exists an International Confederation of Wizards.
In "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," it's revealed that Dumbledore was the chair of the organization, known as the Supreme Mugwump, until 1995, when the book takes place. He was voted out of the position by Ministry wizards who were unhappy with him announcing that Voldemort had returned.
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