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After a lapse of two years, I finally saw the "current situation" of the magical world again - more precisely, history. It's like returning to Professor Binns's history of magic class. Fortunately, Ms. Rowling and Director Yates did not tell people sleepy sections of wonderful history like Professor Binns did.
In any case, Mr. Gellert Grindelwald is a respectable wizard, but at the beginning he was imprisoned in the New York Ministry of Magic, and even his tongue was pulled out. At first glance, it seems that some people are right. The regret of an old hero. ——Sorry, this expression of "villains" may make some "Lions of Justice" dissatisfied, but as you can guess, the academy I attended is from the snake house that honors power.
When the humble U.S. Ministry of Magic guy took out the Elder Wand - how did you know it was the Elder Wand, you ask? Go to the museum more, and you can recognize it if you read a few more books like the people who read (shu) books (dai) (zi) in Eagle House - when the Elder Wand appears in the hands of the "little person" It became clear at once that the real Mr. Grindelwald was not in the prison van in which he was being held.
Sure enough, in the turbulent Atlantic, the variables suddenly arise. It is recommended that you go to the cinema to experience the gentleman's demeanor.
I didn't expect that a skinny creature like Thestral would be very scary to move. Of course, the 3D special effects of the movie were also made to fly past the scalp, which was very shocking. Sadly - or rather lucky? Although it pulls the carriages at Hogwarts, it has never seen this creature in person. And in my first few years at school, I thought the empty carts that took us from Hogsmeade station to the school castle were horse-drawn carriages that could walk on their own. Only later did I find out that it was the "Thestral" that pulled the carriage, but only those who had seen death with their own eyes could see the Thestral.
I don't know if it was because it had been quiet for more than a century at that time, but the Ministry of Magic in London more than a hundred years ago was much more brilliant than in recent years. It is the war brought about by the expansion of Senior Riddle's ambition in the past few decades, which has left the British wizarding world in a haze and cannot safely rebuild the Ministry of Magic. Fortunately, Harry Potter, no, ah, yes, "Harry Potter", fortunately, Mr. Potter finally defeated Voldemort and brought stability to the British wizarding world. It's a pity, though, probably because I got a letter to go to school not long after Hogwarts reopened smoothly, and the Ministry of Magic at that time was less than one-tenth as brilliant as it appeared in the movie.
Should be much better now. At least, it won't be like in the movie, there are house-elves cleaning by the side during normal work; or, there are owls carrying letters between departments, and now the messages between departments are not using notes? I heard that during the time when the owl was used to deliver the message, every office was very messy, and the desks were still full of feces. ——However, maybe, this is the reality of the era that the production team saw in the Pensieve: it was because of the use of owls to deliver letters that it was messy everywhere, so the house-elves needed to be kept clean and tidy all the time.
Plus, no matter how many times you see Mr. Newt Scamander as a young man, you'll still be fascinated! Maybe the production team has also made a lot of effort in the selection of actors, and there is the change in the face of magic, trying to fit Mr. Scamander's prototype as much as possible. It is strongly recommended that in the future textbooks, the part introducing the author should include a photo of the author in his current year. In this case, I will definitely read the book "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" in my first grade class, instead of playing chess and chatting like the guys from the Lions House!
Surprisingly, the big snake Nagini that Senior Riddle met in Albania was actually a lady. Moreover, the lady and Credence, the silent, were very close. After the final meeting organized by Grindelwald, she actually came to Dumbledore's side. It's hard to imagine why she would follow Senior Riddle, perhaps because she was confused by Senior Riddle's rhetoric, or, from Senior Riddle, she remembered that she and Credence were in the circus back then, Support each other from the United States across the Atlantic to Paris? Looking forward to the follow-up, and also looking forward to the appearance of Senior Riddle in the next few films.
No matter what the seniors have done and what beliefs they have, the brilliance displayed in the process of pursuing beliefs is dazzling. For example, Rita Lestrange-senpai. Another Lestrange-senpai. Unlike Bellatrix Lestrange, who married her husband with her husband's surname, although they are all seniors of our Snake House, Rita is not as crazy as Bellatrix, maybe she met St. The gentlemen of Camander are very nice sake.
The magical world is so small, sometimes seeing these familiar surnames, one can't help but speculate on the in-law relationship between them based on the details. Especially after Rita took out Lestrange's family tree, she couldn't help but want to find "Rodolphus Lestrange" in those few seconds - that is, Bellatree Kes Black's husband, unsuccessfully. After all, in the Muggle world, how can a movie stop for a while when many Muggles are present, and then look carefully? Will attract the Ministry of Magic crowd.
What is shown in the movie, Rita's "bad" aura of "not easy to mess with" during her studies in the Snake Institute, and her regret for accidentally killing her half-brother, is very similar to the Snake Institute. status of most students. Thinking about it carefully, it is too arbitrary to judge such a complex human nature sometimes by the results of sorting by the Sorting Hat.
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When the picture returned to Hogwarts by the Black Lake with "Hedwig's Theme", it reminded me of the vote in the communication manual of the four colleges on the school (a Muggle-like online forum) - Hogwarts Gwarts school song tune vote. Although in theory the school song can be sung with any tune, and I heard that the "Funeral March" is also used for accompaniment, but there are always some obsessive-compulsive students who want to unify the tune, or students who can't sing don't know what tune to use.
That's why every year on the Hogwarts Express, the "School Song" vote of the night appears in the communication manual. The results of the polls vary from year to year. And after the release of the "Harry Potter" series, the vote was almost "Hedwig's Theme". After a long time, most people will acquiesce that this is the school song tune, and even the school's promotion and recruitment videos in recent years use it as the background music.
Speaking of which, not long after such an admissions promotion video appeared for the first time, a student anonymously opened an exchange thread to discuss whether the school’s direct use of Muggle things in this way was infringing. Anonymous discussions between the students were held for several days, dozens of pages thick (joined posts that were in discussion would directly change the thickness of the communication manual).
Later, Principal Minerva McGonagall directly posted the author of the songwriter of "Hedwig's Theme Song", Mr. John Williams' authorization letter, and then stopped replying. ——We British drama/local drama lovers are wondering if we are going to chase "Downton Abbey". There is an old Countess who looks like her. Of course, some people are guessing whether Principal McGonagall directly participated in the role. However, that's for another post.
Thinking back to my school days at Hogwarts, my thoughts can always drift far away, especially for such a movie that easily evokes memories. When I saw that Professor Albus Dumbledore, who was still a professor at the time, pulled down the Mirror of Erised, the figure in the mirror was actually Gellert Grindelwald, I immediately understood why the communication manual these days The number of pages soared.
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Among the few unsolved mysteries in the school in the manual, one of them is "Two or three things Dumbledore and Grindelwald had to say".
The mystery began at a Hogwarts-Durmstrong Symposium on Magical Education. It is said that among the student representatives of the two schools who attended the meeting, the two female students amicably discussed the famous alumni of each other's schools. , and the two are very interested in history, and found many coincidences.
The senior from Hogwarts imitated the "Two or three things that Professor XX has to say" that all professors have, their own, complaining or admiring posts, and created a new "Two or three things ADGG has to say". And I heard that the title of Durmstrang's internal communication manual is "Two or three things GGAD has to say".
Because he is still a student, his knowledge is limited, and another client has already "enjoyed his old age" in Nurmengard prison (there are traces of magic here, and Muggles cannot see the contents of the quotation marks). Only a small number of students participated in the discussion, and most of them were female students. Occasionally—
"I found out that AD doesn't really like candy that much. Eton Max just now was the best meal the elf made this week. He didn't move at all."
"I heard from the next door, the elf next door mentioned that GG likes candy."
Most of them are the pink brain supplements of each female student. The post really took off when, a few years later, a journalist named Rita Skeeter wrote a book "The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore" after Dumbledore's death - in Muggle The author and book titles that are popular in the world seem to be like this.
The book mentions their short summer vacation. Although the content of the book is mostly false and defamatory, most of the female students expressed their willingness to believe that there was indeed a deep relationship between him and Grindelwald.
After the post became popular at the time, it also aroused the curiosity of some male students. An anonymous alumnus said that he had the honor to speak with Professor Dumbledore and asked him a personal question, although the professor did not answer it completely honestly at the time. , but thinking about it now, the professor's answer at the time was not unreasonable. In any case, Professor Dumbledore was a great wizard.
And Durmstrang's post next door somehow didn't become popular, or girls who like pink brain supplements, so there are mostly rational voices: Professor Dumbledore is a great wizard, but let's be clear To understand a person, you should not only listen to the voices of his followers, but sometimes it is okay to listen to the voices of those who are prejudiced against him.
No matter how popular a post once was, it will always be thrown into the dust as time goes by.
Until I saw Dumbledore in the movie when he saw the situation in the Mirror of Erised, for some reason, he would think of JK Rowling's novel, and then think of the possible personal problems mentioned by the anonymous alumnus many years ago:
"What did you see when you looked in the mirror?"
"Me? I saw myself holding a pair of thick wool socks."
It can be clearly felt that the communication manual in the backpack has become bulging in the past two days, and it should be that this topic has become popular again.
In my third year at Hogwarts, after learning about a certain internal communication section, and at the recommendation of my senior, I made up the old post "Two or three things ADGG has to say". The content of the strong brain supplement, and later a reporter broke the news, plus the current "official recognition" - since the production team dared to shoot like this, there must be some solid information.
Suddenly I felt a little emotional: the gorgeous people I met that summer, it would be good to meet them only once in their lives, and encountering them once was enough to change their lives.
For example, they like to call people upstairs to chat and overlook the whole city; they are very good at coaxing others to do what they want; they have a tacit understanding and do not face conflicts with each other directly.
I remembered a rumor that when the two of them had to face each other for a decisive battle, Mr. Grindelwald conjured a white handkerchief from the tip of his wand and died. I don't know if it's true, I look forward to the restoration of the historical facts in the next few parts of the production team.
Professor Dumbledore's feelings should not be one-sided. I remember that in the last movie, Grindelwald pretended to be an official of the Ministry of Magic in the United States. When interrogating Newt, he asked:
"I heard that Dumbledore likes you very much?"
And when it came to this part, he used his own face to ask:
"Do you still think Dumbledore likes you?"
Can only sigh.
Moreover, at the end of the film, Credence, who has been searching for his identity, was told by Mr. Grindelwald that his real identity was actually "Dumbledore". People of the Dumbledore family, I don't know if I have been soaking in the "ADGG" posts for too long, I always feel that this is Mr. Grindelwald's pursuit of "greater interests" with "Dumbledore" in another way. ". ——It is also a brain supplement with strong student spirit.
It was like seeing him and his followers break into that French house and seeing the only survivor of the family, a blue-eyed child. The first reaction is: the child's eyes look like Dumbledore, he will not kill. But if you don't kill it, you won't be Mr. Grindelwald.
The child's life was ended by one of his followers, but he showed a certain "unbearable" expression when he closed the door, thinking of Dumbledore, right?
Then the war, and then one side wins and the other loses.
Come to think of it, the closest they were to each other was on the Chocolate Frog card.
His, well-known contributions include, beating him.
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When it comes to chocolate frog cards, I have always seen the name "Nicole Lemay" on the cards. I didn't expect the 600-year-old man to be so "fragile" but powerful.
I remember seeing his name in a tome in the library, saying that he lived with his long-lived wife, but in the movie, his wife appeared as a young man in the photo. I don't know if there will be more additions in the next few episodes.
I am envious of the relationship between the two of them that has gone through a hundred years together.
Speaking of which, what kind of feelings did Professor Dumbledore have with Nicole LeMay?
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Movies are nice.
These two JK Rowling films are no longer Harry Potter films: fairy tales for children, more like films for adults.
If the Harry Potter series is "Welcome to Hogwarts," then the Fantastic Beasts series is "Welcome to the Wizarding World."
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