The Crimes of Grindelwald - Ruining a Franchise

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[@communismwithgiggles2515]

J.K. Rowling's probably one of the only authors in the world where the *fans* are the ones saying "Stop sending me this shit."

[@CycloneEffect22]

Communism With Giggles Russo Brothers: “Hold our beers!”

[@timchiu501]

Star Wars after Disney’s purchase

[@galinor7]

Star woke Trek.

[@itarfer]

Communism With Giggles XD

[@itarfer]

CycloneEffect22 communism is all giggles when you do it right

[@jebbryant6522]

This movie confirms that Grindelwald is better than Voldemort after all he manages to kill a baby

[@jebbryant6522]

Robbie Reijman dude do you need a hug or something? That’s not even what the word baby means but let’s forget that for now. What’s wrong man? Are you having a bad week?

[@maxis2778]

@Robbie Reijman is this guy coming at a baby 🤔

[@atharvadeshpande4749]

@Robbie Reijman r/woosh

[@jebbryant6522]

Patrick Dy she probably didn’t because as we all know a mothers love can deflect a killing curse but I like to think she did do it and that’s why he gets his second in command to do the killing so if the mother loved the baby a prophecy would’ve said the baby grows up to kill his second in command

[@rickardrakkoon2500]

Nuff said

[@alhorane2463]

“Were there any arab students at hogwarts?” JKR “yes, Mohammad bin laden,Slytherin”

[@karolinakuc4783]

Falafel Halal, Slytherin expelled for trying to set school on fire with use of fire blowing chickens he was breeding illegally

[@TCHorwood-xq7mw]

genuine LOL!

[@MF-ty2zn]

Native Americans? "Pocahontas Tiger Lily, Gryffindor."

[@BallyBoy95]

Indians? Gandhi Patel, Hufflepuff.

[@youtube-kit9450]

The worst part about it truly is that Anthony Goldstein wasn't even a spur of the moment lapse of judgment - the guy actually existed since book 1 and it's just how Rowling names people... ofc we knew that since Cho Chang, but yeah.

[@Heidegaff]

I like how Ezra Miller ends up being the surprise villain, just like in real life.

[@elder-woodsilverstein7716]

Life imitates art

[@riftryn]

@@elder-woodsilverstein7716lol

[@myguttervforvendetta]

You got that medicine I neeeeed

[@69SalterStreet]

😂

[@IamAnnahi]

He's absolutely creepy

[@matchington1148]

Why weren’t there any Native Americans at Hogwarts? JK Rowling: Pocahontas Mohawk, Native American wizard, Gryffindor.

[@phantorange3801]

POCAHONTAS MOHAWK XD!

[@norgepalm7315]

@@phantorange3801 did you just unironically ecksdee

[@akashwalavalkar7313]

Because the school was in Europe

[@michaelsteadman3292]

Dumbledores mom was half Native American

[@MultiBigbird01]

Because there are no native americans or mexicans in the UK.

[@StitchFunkoPop]

Were there any British students in Hogwarts? J.K.: No.

[@vikrambansal1416]

LOL!!!! underrated comment

[@shrekisloveshrekislife2571]

just n o

[@JaylukKhan]

D E A D

[@EchoSD]

Actually, there was one. Her name was Elizabeth Crumpetkettle. Hufflepuff.

[@MarusaTheBadKid]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@KickflipDave]

“Tina is looking for Ezra Miller so she can arrest him.” She’s the real hero of this story 16:30

[@vanessapham6914]

imagine if we had a gag series where Newt is like Steve Irwin going around showing us animals in the wizarding world and he is collecting information for his book. so much wasted potential lol

[@karolinakuc4783]

Or him at Hogwarts making bonds with his beasts Niffler and Pickett, pranking Hogwarts mates with them and awkward dates with Leta Lestrange

[@LUR1FAX]

And then he gets killed by a dang fish.

[@RJKilroy]

I would watch the shit out of that tbh

[@dysmissme7343]

WRITE THAT FANFIC OHMYGOD

[@zellalaing5439]

Yesssss or Nige Marvin, love that guy, would be great.

[@Velvet_Crowe]

I didn’t know I was gay until J.K. Rowling revealed it to me.

[@limeyfigdet7460]

+Velvet Crowe Lmao

[@theworldoverheavan560]

lol

[@AhmedMusrin]

@@annegrey3780 WTF

[@emridatla3886]

Andy Bernard, is that you?

[@ichabodlorax7585]

Okay, we get it already. After literally the thousandth time, we get it already. Yeesh, people thought Ugandan Knuckles was over-done.

[@Dominic-fd2wz]

No one: JK: “Harry’s wand was made from 30% recycled paper.”

[@Double-R-Nothing]

SHUT UP! SHE'LL HEAR YOU!

[@TiStardust]

ok I believe you

[@ominouswonder5912]

Big Brother is watching you.

[@8393Robertrex]

See you say that like its a bad thing

[@TiStardust]

Robert Fernandez You have a point.

[@ignoremeplease]

"Were there any Canadian students at Hogwarts?" "Yes, Maple Poutine, Hufflepuff."

[@claires3562]

Moose Eh Igloo, also Hufflepuff

[@tinfoilslacks3750]

"No, day of the rake for every fucking leaf"

[@zellalaing5439]

Real talk though, maples such a cute name 😂

[@casperrabbit7254]

I'm honestly stunned that a published author can't come forward and say "I know I said Hermione is white in the books, the jackets for the books show her as being white, and I picked a white actress to play her in the movies, but I'm fine with a black actress playing her in the show so long as she's a good actress" or "Hogwarts takes in students from across the UK and Ireland so there's students of every major religion in attendance" And instead feels the need to retcon her own work to shoehorn in diversity she didn't add before, or pull some stereotypical name out of a hat and claim they're the token (minority) character

[@anonymoushuman8443]

She tried to please a certain crowd and in the end it all backfired since they ended up canceling her anyway.

[@LargeInCharge77]

Its beyond pathetic. Oh no my characters are white, how awful of me, better just make some shit up on the spot to please the angry mob.

[@homeperson11244]

Sounds like she doesn't do it with content. i felt it was someone came to her backdoor and gave ultimatum to her to made it diverse or they would cut her funding. Which you could see at the end, very half-ass with.

[@karolinakuc4783]

But Ministry of Magic forbids religion.

[@wrestlinganime4life288]

​@@anonymoushuman8443 but literally no one asked Hermione to be black though... So who was she tried to please

[@Nutmeg-]

When an author writes a fanfiction about her own story

[@user-ji3dn1vw7v]

Bianca Freismuth a bad, boring, cliché fanfiction.

[@bardia-mn4vz]

@@romitkumar6272 no, you definitely need to read more fan fictions like the mature over 10,000 words ones and not the crap you were reading before go read the really dark stuff those are pretty good and not boring and cliché I can recommend a few but you have to be + 18

[@user-ji3dn1vw7v]

Humpback Whale lmaoooo. But, no, not really. There are some really good ones out there, they’re just harder to find.

[@dhruvhari7189]

I am so happy that basilisk born exists. It may be an AU, but it’s better... so much better for the rich history of Harry Potter

[@crash_hunter8659]

ohhhhh, wanna smash the like button on this commentso hard, that it time travels and hit Rowling, when she finished the last Potter.

[@aacsmiles]

I'm still so utterly baffled by JK's response to the question of "are there jewish kids at hogwarts?" Instead of just going with the obvious, "Hogwarts teaches every magical kid in the British Isles. Of course there's jewish students." She just goes, "you get one."

[@bleedingmasque.6193]

She's clearly got some sort of issues with narcissism.

[@darkprose]

Some people flourish on Twitter in a bad way. Rowling and Trump immediately come to mind. They aren’t terribly different. I think you’re right, Bleeding Masque-narcissism.

[@vinnregi4882]

And she also named him Anthony GOLDSTEIN. Racists can't come up with this shit xD Like, why not Benjamin Moneybank??? xD

[@paulanderson6834]

I always assumed the goblins in the bank were representative of the group you mentioned.

[@Xehanort10]

And it was a minor character no one knew anything about other than his name.

[@jwoodsonmusic]

“Were there any German students at Hogwarts?” JKR: “Yes. Heinz Adolf Bratwurst, Hufflepuff.”

[@c.w.8200]

Thanks man, as a German I could have never come up with that 😂

[@ReindeerD]

Hahahah of course she wouldn’t put him in Slytherin 😂😂

[@idisplaypace2411]

​@@ReindeerDwhat is ur point?

[@ReindeerD]

@@idisplaypace2411 if a guy is named Adolf and as as stereotypical as the rest of her characters, he probably belongs in slytherin

[@idisplaypace2411]

@@ReindeerD Yes, so why did you say "of course she wouldn't put him in slytherin"

[@dickbong3661]

As someone who recently googled the plot of Cursed Child lately and almost died from laughing, I think its relevant to mention that Cursed Child does NOT save Cedric Diggory via time travel, because actually turns out if Cedric had lived he would have felt humiliated about losing the tournament to a fourteen year old, and been so angry about it that he joined the Death Eaters and tried to kill Harry, with his involvement ensuring that Voldemort won the war. Also the whole thing was never actually about Cedric, it was Voldemort and Bellatrix's secret love child PRETENDING to be Cedric Diggory's cousin to kickstart the time travel nonsense with the goal of saving Voldemort's life and as a result preventing the massive amount of angst that comes from having been orphaned as a newborn. The only reason she knows about her real parents is because Bellatrix's actual husband was released from Azkaban and was weirdly really okay with his wife having cheated on him and had a child with someone else, so he happily informed her of her true heritage. They met exactly once when she was a young adult. This motivated her to dedicate her entire life to trying to rescue her father with time travel. I just find this all to be relevant information; if I have to know this shit, so does everyone else.

[@laladylann]

Im sorry.. what...

[@KateJn]

@@laladylann lol it's weird though that I understand all that. I've read the cursed child I pray they don't make a movie let's just say it was 'interesting' 😅

[@luvmeday]

i read the play in a day and must've blacked out bc WHAT IS THAT

[@mirimarina6387]

It reads like bad fanfiction, and I've read so many better ones, one of my favourites being one where Tom riddle magically ends up in the 21st century. The play is ridiculous.

[@CrowMercury]

I love the fact this accurate description spares even the worse details, like Harry being an ass to everyone for no reason at all, everyone believing Draco went back in time with her wife to have her being impregnated by Voldemort ( and I mean everyone, the Aurors investigate that shit ), or that Ron is made especially incompetent because of course the writers are Harry and Hermione shippers so they have to make both of them cheaters because that's integrity from heroes for you.

[@itsjustbree9267]

"I'm not mad that you wrote a story about straight white kids. I'm just mad that you keep lying to me." Yep that just about sums it up.

[@amberrj.]

Yes!💯 I liked that line too lol.

[@FireWithADotInFrontOfTheName]

Bruh i was going to read this commdnt then i heard he saying it

[@MinishMoosen]

Forgot to mention her constant hating of trans people, which she also lied about repeatedly. This time the act is worse than the lie though.

[@RevoltingPeasant123]

@@MinishMoosen You deserve an award for the most creative use of the expression 'constant hating' in existence.

[@MinishMoosen]

@world leader It doesn't matter what excuse you use. One could say "biology isn't bigotry" to justify racial segregation or any other blatant discrimination. Nobody's falling for it.

[@thatweirdowlhatgirl4671]

“were there any German students at Hogwarts?” JKR: “yes, Schnitzel Luftwaffe Lederhosen, Slytherin”

[@elirchi9214]

AHHAHAHSHAFSHF "SCHNITZEL"

[@eliseesbjornsson4981]

Grandson of Hitler himself

[@nessierey6721]

Now you’re just being mean lol

[@EagleSpirit88]

"Your true name is Schnitzel... Hitler"

[@beth5627]

How dare you say that Schnitzel is german?! Why not Bratwurst? Or Frankfurter Würstchen? But not friggin Schnitzel!

[@lucalinadreemur9448]

Wait, if wizards just didn't have plumbing till the 18th century when plumbing was invented by muggles how did Salazar Slytherin utilize the plumbing system to lead to his secret chamber? Also, they just went wherever they stood? Nobody ever thought to step outside, or utilize the chamber pots that absolutely existed in those days?

[@hello-wl7pk]

that’s a good question. we see tom riddle leading the snake around but if he wasn’t using the plumbing how tf wasn’t he seen

[@MizterMoonshine]

Just dont think about it bro

[@RustedBuddy5192]

@@MizterMoonshine Tom Riddle and the Chamber Pot of Dumbledore's Secrets

[@MizterMoonshine]

@@RustedBuddy5192 Salazar Slytherin and the Hidden Entrance to the Chamber of Secrets he built in the Middle Ages under 20th century plumbing

[@lycianempire]

It's not as if plumbing has existed in some fashion since at least the Roman Empire

[@c3rberus04]

Harry Potter´s son traveling back in time to save Cedric, sounds like a fanfiction from a 14 year old girl who had a huge crush on Robert Pattinson

[@lonelyhunter990]

Nobody: J.K. Rowling: Professor Mcgonagall is actually a lesbian stripper with five children and a prosthetic leg

[@Connorthecatsdad]

Don't give her any ideas

[@Yarsig]

She's also 75% native american.

[@Spektiv]

MisguidedTotalWar Literally Jessica Lange on American Horror Story

[@tabithak.9923]

Tbh that'd be pretty lit

[@caterpillarattitude8286]

And she’s a Muslim.

[@246trinitrotoluene]

"We are now rooting for characters who are trying to stop a man who is trying to stop the holocaust from happening." Great line lol.

[@HeavyMetalBeliever]

You'd think that the wizarding world (in Harry Potter) would have wanted to stop World War 2. It's weird that they didn't consider that Grindelwald ACTUALLY HAD A POINT.

[@bobthet-rex2718]

@Steel4 the funny part is that he really did and he actually didn't seem to be that bad of a guy (besides the killing part)

[@HeavyMetalBeliever]

@@bobthet-rex2718 I was actually willing to side with Grindelwald before he floated the possibility of killing millions of people. And, I'd go further than that and say that GRINDELWALD was the rational one.

[@angiemitic4520]

As far as I can remember, it was in Harry Potter that Grindelwald was behind Hitler in the first place. I could be wrong, but as far as I remember it was mentioned somewhere.

[@angiemitic4520]

@Dirk-Ulrich Heise Not really. Just that he had wizards to help him indoctrinate an entire nation and maybe even provide some ideas. After all, the number of people that died during the WWII would've played into Grindelwalds plan to 'exterminate' as many muggles as possible in a short amount of time. Think of him as more of a willing pawn...if he wasn't being controlled that is...the world will never know.

[@Lina-py5wm]

Another continuity error is making Dumbledore the DADA teacher. He wasn't. He was the Transfiguration teacher before he became Headmaster after Dippet dipped out. IDK, just a small thing that really pisses me off

[@rileymachelle4088]

This is written by JK Rowling as well. The author herself forgot about her own book lol. Like, I get it if she can't remember details like that because of how much material there is to commit to memory, but at that point just do what George R.R. Martin does. He hires a group of dedicated fans who will proofread whatever he's working on so that they can point out any small details that may contradict his previous books.

[@bradylehman6406]

@@rileymachelle4088That’s pretty cool!

[@GLEPPPPP]

@@bradylehman6406 agreed

[@danceyrselfkleen]

"Were there any gay students at Hogwarts?" JK Rowling: Yes. The Cosmonaut Variety Hour, Hufflepuff.

[@genoob5843]

Nah Bruh don’t do my man like that😂😂😂

[@karolinakuc4783]

Gaylord Rainbow

[@koiloylo]

yes, Rainbow Stonewall, Slytherin

[@thisisvalkyrie]

"Fifteen minutes into my Harry Potter movie and we've killed our first baby. And yes, I did say, _first_ baby." I lost it.

[@gkay8889]

That joke has so many layers

[@parkchimmin7913]

geo koukkappakeepo you know what also has layers? Ogres

[@fudgesolo6352]

@@parkchimmin7913 XD

[@cherrychocolate1434]

@@parkchimmin7913 You know what else has layers? Parfaits, and EVERYONE loves parfaits!

[@chrissonofpear1384]

Small complaint: he did SEE the end of the last film? Where a small part of the Obscurus was seen escaping the subway? And how Jacob was beginning to remember in the bakery?

[@Mutantgamer]

Dudley was actually Voldemort's son all along and had an intense sexual relationship with Harry.

[@ioncekilledamanwithmyshoe]

Mutantgamer stop, you’re giving new ideas to jk Rowling.

[@phamapollo3175]

Minus the relation to Voldemort, it would actually be a typical crush-on-the-bully plot line in gay fiction

[@entertain7us148]

GAAAAAAAAAAAHAHHAHA

[@TheBlockWIzard]

I would not be surprised if that was the new canon. Especially since Harry having part of Voldemort's soul would kinda make the whole thing incest which JK probably sees as progressive :P

[@uneterostardust8233]

777 likes, This is going to materialize as truth in the real world.

[@TomSistermans]

"Are there any Dutch students at Hogwarts?" JKR: "Windmill van Weedclogs, Ravenclaw"

[@PiroKUSS]

Jan van Klootzak, Hufflepuff

[@bobbyb2749]

“were there any brazilian students at Hogwarts?” JKR: “yes, Rio Feijoada”

[@erick_zxh]

Gabriel samba lele

[@MrBlackbeard4]

"Yes, Neymar Futesambabol, Grifinória"

[@aracelisalvesdasilva8614]

Kkkkkkkkkkkkk

[@OtraConta]

Pelé Silvio Santos da Silva

[@arbanafal]

No one: JK Rowling: Hagrid is actually three children standing on top of each other

[@deffdefying4803]

Fans: No he's not you even said he was half-giant in the books-- JK Rowling: Yeah but you never see him take off his clothes so you wouldn't know that, he could be lying

[@marstonsneddon8692]

You mean like in Bojack Horseman

[@towon]

one black male bisexual, one latino male gay and one latino female gay

[@rooke5564]

Spilled my drink

[@BEATSofDevil]

@@towon no, one is an asian girl in a wheelchair

[@discomacabre1]

"Were there any Chinese wizards?" JK Rowling: "yes, Cho Chang." wait...

[@aurelia8028]

lol

[@riduanaqil1452]

😂😂

[@bundydachosen1]

*Shang Tsung

[@xprtbillyun]

Shang-Chi

[@SilasBudman420]

Jackie Chan

[@thegrimcritic5494]

Honestly, the single most interesting film series they could make in the Wizarding World is “Hogwarts, A History,” where we actually see the four founding wizards and follow them through whatever conflicts they went through to establish the school. Maybe we could see Salazar Slytherin’s character start out as an ambitious but noble wizard and follow him as he descends into his obsession with wizard blood purity. THAT would have been interesting. I can even imagine what the cast might look like. Maybe Sean Bean as Godrick Gryffindor, Michael Fassbender as Salazar Slytherin, maybe Tilda Swinton as Rowena Ravenclaw, and someone like Natalie Dormer as Helga Hufflepuff. But no. We got Newt Scamander somehow following the weird drama between Dumbledore and Grindewald. Perfect.

[@BabyTooth05]

I have said this for so long 😭

[@generouslyfat]

fassbender would be awesome as slytherin

[@ramofeldduckington6257]

If that gets made I might actually be interested enough to pirate it

[@kayringel2770]

I want that movie. Written by someone who will make it all make sense.

[@AtlasBlizzard]

Awesome idea! I want to see it now!

[@Shadow-In-The-East]

"Were there any Ugandan students at Hogwarts?" JKR: "Yes, Abegunde Natukunda Why-Aryu-Geh, Slytherin."

[@karolinakuc4783]

Let's not forget Uga Buga Kumba Hitler Not everything has to be diverse but if she came up with an Ugandan student the name would sound like that

[@rileymachelle4088]

Actually there were Ugandon students at Hogwarts. The largest wizarding school in the wizarding world is the one in Uganda which is called Uagado. They don't use wands in that part of the world, so they all can spellcast without them. Because transfer students are a thing, Uagado students can transfer to Hogwarts and vice versa. There's actually a character you meet in Hogwarts Legacy named Natty who is a transfer student from Uagado. Her mother was invited to be the new Divination professor at Hogwarts, so they both moved to Scotland.

[@Rebecca_2004]

​@@rileymachelle4088yeah and jk didn't write anything in that game. As far as I know. Which is why is so good.

[@bradylehman6406]

@@Rebecca_2004Personally I think the story itself is a bit bare bones but I would agree that the characters are very unique and interesting. Especially all the professors! I think they did an excellent job of coming up with very interesting and captivating professors that are on par with the professors in the books.

[@Youknow6969able]

​@@Rebecca_2004the story of hogwarts legacy is as generic generic goes.

[@Hydruss443]

“Are there Italian students at Hogwarts?” JKR: Yes, Lamborghini Maserati, Ravenclaw.

[@Germanskill205]

Guisseppe Stromboli

[@bevinthomas1120]

loll

[@rakotard]

Yes, Luigi Pizzapasta Straciatella, Gryffindor.

[@conserztasfia0078]

Nah its pizza pasta

[@davidbacon9244]

C'mon, you people are not even trying. Enzo Gorlami or Antonio Margheriti.

[@adamfletcher6032]

The funniest part about the “was there ever a *insert nationality* character” joke is the fact that the token Chinese character was named Cho Chang and the Irish character was named Seamus Finnegan

[@IndianaJoneFan24]

And the Irish character in the movie was given a running gag of blowing things up

[@RoyalKnightVIII]

@@IndianaJoneFan24 like right after the Troubles too

[@rico_1617]

Eduardo Cooper But at least then it would come off like a joke

[@crabbieappleton]

@@IndianaJoneFan24 And trying to turn water into rum. Not even whisky, too. Rum.

[@djfoster720]

crabbieappleton I guess I will have to find out whether Seamus is canonically ginger, that would be the breaking point

[@josepablobonillajimenez6297]

Queenie was a charming, sweet, almost "Bewitched" type of character, second movie, no background whatsoever she's an obsessive toxic girl, worst part is if that was it and she learned to respect jacob's space by the end it would've been more or less ok, but instead they made her a magical Hitler follower (which is weird because Grindelwald sees muggles as lesser beings and she wants to marry one) she trusts not only the man himself but his girl follower that helped her in the rain, completely forgetting she can read minds and even worse by the ending scene she's a fully fledged Grindelwald groupie and even in the trailers fir the next movie appears as a regular evil wizard, they completely ruined the sweet character that was presented in the first movie, like her beloved sister, an AUROR is less important to her now than Grindelwald for some reason

[@themikatoon]

Not to mention she's a Jew, Rowling made a Jewish character side with a magical Hitler. Same shit Marvel did with Wanda siding with Ultron like I swear people don't think.

[@KateJn]

@@themikatoon Wanda with Ultron was good though in places

[@karolinakuc4783]

@@themikatoon American Jews didn't care about their European brothers in faith. Watch ''The Pianist" by Roman Polański who btw is a Jew himself.

[@snowbeast4463]

Only in JK Rowling's mind would the character trying to prevent the holocaust be the villain.

[@c.w.8200]

Yes, wth was she even thinking...

[@jasonmason2471]

And the people who stop the one man who tries to prevent WW2 be the good guys and let itall happen.

[@anugyasingh9001]

Yeah coz of tRAnsPhoBiA, lmao why are whites so re”arded ? That ideology’s has more plot holes than this movie

[@Eric-st2tj]

@@anugyasingh9001 seek help.

[@zaydzulqurnain594]

Respectfully, I don't think this point is valid. First of all, Grindelwald was proposing that they kill about 2 billion muggles to prevent the murder of 6 million in the holocaust, without actually saying that to his followers, which is a classic manipulative villain mastermind plan. Secondly, he has lied countless times in the trilogy, to Credence, to his followers etc. He literally lies in that very same scene when he says he's not a violent person. So when he claims that he's trying to stop WWII, to me it seems like the audience would realistically dismiss that as another lie to gain support from the hundreds of potential followers he could get from that room.

[@rollingon5566]

The plot is basically the equivalent of asking a biologist to join the CIA or he can't go to Borneo

[@Dingus7696]

Hahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[@rasmuskock8077]

That would actually make for a fantastic movie

[@user-vk7fd2st8j]

Oh, this is where Gulag was copied from.

[@jonathankey6444]

First of all, how surprised are we given Harry Potter was a mediocre magician who defeated the worst dark lord history had seen. Also, it’s specified that Newt Scamander is a very gifted magic user who is also very intelligent, and he’s good friends with Dumbledore and his brother is one is a big deal in the security department. Way more believable than Harry Potter.

[@karolinakuc4783]

These creatures were actually incredibly powerful. Bite of Billywig (blue beatle from1rst movie) makes one levitate, Thunderbird can cause a storm, Demiguise is invisible and can see fututure 1 minute ahead. You could do a lot with it provided you are creative. But WB recently just isn't. They made some really questionable decisions like firing Johny Depp from 2nd movie just because of gossips and not making Henry Cavill Superman

[@Nuvizzle]

Imagine if a series called "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" was actually about fantastic beasts, and perhaps even where to find them. Seriously all they had to do was a magical nature documentary.

[@legerdemain444]

That's what I was expecting to see when I watched the first movie. The book "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" was just fictional textbook on magical animals.

[@krzysztofcieslewicz962]

YES!

[@karlijns4816]

especially as she announced the location of other wizarding schools around that time, thought newt would travel the world finding and researching magical creatures while interacting with different wizarding cultures.

[@tremor230]

Wizard Steve Hirwing

[@kennethsatria6607]

I would've very much love that. But I don't know if the general audience would. Like at all. we basically got the best of it in the first movie.

[@kingofthegrill]

"Any Greek students at Hogwarts?" "Yes, Stavros Panakoulopolis, he works in the kitchen."

[@magicmulder]

You mean Garlikos Lazymandias.

[@kingofthegrill]

@@magicmulder sounds like a superhero from the Greek Watchmen, Lazymandias

[@dumbbell1231]

When I read that Hogworts wasn't the only wizarding school, I wanted to know what other wizarding schools there were. Boy oh boy, I was so disappointed when I realised that she only created one school for one continent. As an Asian, its even more infuriating to know that she created one school for the whole East Asia and Southeast Asia region! One school for the world's most populous region? And the smallest school of them all! I guess she would say East Asian wizards prefer to send their children to Hogworts to plug this hole.

[@MysticOceanDollies]

I don’t think she realizes how massive the United States is, even less the rest of North America. One school per continent just isn’t feasible.

[@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770]

Makes the Wizarding World feel even more ridiculously small.

[@lila709]

I think she said that those schools were the most notable in those areas, not the only ones. There are other smaller schools and some study at home.

[@dumbbell1231]

@@lila709 You are right. I checked the official website for HP Wizarding World (WW), Rowling mentioned that most schools are obscure and most wizards are home schooled. I applaud her effort for being inclusive, but her lack of understanding of other cultures (especially non-European ones) make it look more like a cover-up than a genuine gesture. It's OK for leaving gaps in areas that she is not familiar with. Just because she created the world doesn't mean she has to fill in every blank. The tricky part of being inclusive without knowing extensively the culture and people you want to talk about will offend them more so than excluding them. It's a series of books with characters featuring British teenagers and the setting is British school life, most people will understand that not everything they read applies to them. And everything was good before the "revision" and extra "do-you-knows" that just don't work.

[@Cylle]

you must be living a pampered life with nothing noteable going on if one fictitious world is upsetting you this much. get a grip lol, the world is not ending..

[@shadowofdread7018]

“Are there any Korean wizards?” JK: “Yes, Kim Jong Un. Slytherin

[@CocoRegardless]

Literally 😂

[@ricejuice8982]

I'd imagine he'd be Hufflepuff

[@AragonGaming-ug3yv]

The greatest of them all

[@R3tr0v1ru5]

@@AragonGaming-ug3yv I heard his father never went to the toilet, which makes sense given what JK said about wizard toilets! Lol.

[@TheIhplodur]

And Psy Ravenclaw.

[@jonathandonovan1802]

were there ever any german students at Hogwarts? J.K.: Yes, Adolf Hitler, Slytherin

[@isaac_759]

thats low. thats loooowwwww

[@endorneyodera4366]

Boi, we all know Hitler was a Hufflepuff, thats why his outfit was yellow-ish

[@mattiacastegnaro8701]

Hitler wasn't german.

[@endorneyodera4366]

@@mattiacastegnaro8701 but he was the leader of germany, and served in the pre germany german army in ww1

[@thatoneguymatt987]

He was Austrian, and Austrians are just fancy Germans

[@Perfectcrime87]

I don't like JK Rowling but Anthony Goldstein is in the books lol. Weird thing not to fact check. He was in Dumbledore's army. I agree with everything else you've said, just wanted to point that one out.

[@Perfectcrime87]

@Ethan Morrill you're not wrong, but there are enough things to criticize about the book without making stuff up

[@mnschoen]

Yeah...it was bigoted when she wrote it. Weird you're jerking off about whether or not the bigotry was in the books but I guess we all have our priorities.

[@twat3789]

“Were there any Irish students at hogwarts?” JK: Yes, Seamus Finnigan, IRA

[@Shadow-In-The-East]

You'll notice how in the films he was always accidentally blowing things up too 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@wrestlinganime4life288]

​@@Shadow-In-The-East and turn water into wine?

[@owenchafer1083]

That's not even untrue.

[@TheKartana]

A plot twist doesn’t mean anything if you don’t understand what the plot is.

[@turtleanton6539]

Too true👏👏👏🤣🤣

[@bongle_dongle747]

Correction: A plot twist doesn't work if there isn't a plot.

[@cliffto6]

THIS!!! The whole time im watching i was like.... Uh ... What.... Huh.... Wah..?

[@aplant179]

as a casual viewer i enjoyed the film but , still don’t understand the ending

[@joelee5986]

yeah deadass i spent the entire film super confused n telling myself 'yh im just dumb ill get it later when i google it' then the twist happens and im like 'wtf' so later i google it anyways and i sigh in relief cuz im not dumb its just a dumb ass film

[@valentinascognamiglio9982]

Were there any Italian students at Hogwarts? JKR: Yes, Betty Spaghetti

[@TheLitehero]

There's vomit on my sweater already

[@Injelotor]

Luke Schaffer hit me with this machete

[@edoardocaprara3676]

Mario Maria Mario, grifondoro

[@CBQReview]

Nah, you’re hilarious 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Mecharnie_Dobbs]

So what should JKR's reply have been? "No" ? And her reply to the follow up question:"Why not?"

[@lovefromwonderland]

One of the main problems I have with Harry Potter is the overload of magical elements. And yes, magic is the center of the Wizarding World, but when you introduce too many of those things, people will start saying, “Well, why didn’t they just apparate or use Floo powder? Why didn’t they just read Grindelwald’s mind, etc.” You can add magical elements into your fantasy world but set limits so it doesn’t have people asking questions.

[@billbill6094]

Or at least remember them.

[@karolinakuc4783]

But maybe Gellert just can defend from legilimency so well. Also in the 1rst movie we can see that those nameless MACUSA folks who disarmed Gellert were in fact his followers. Otherwise why would they dramatocally stop so as to let Gellert have his last word with Newt? How else would Gellert's followers knew the track of testral carriage that goes to Azkaban? First movie was very well written.

[@sisters8a]

Better say, set limits so your story isn't over with just a well timed Abra Kadabra

[@Awkwardstefan007]

I’m starting to think I rewatch these far too often… but Marcus’s saltiness towards JK never ever ever gets old.

[@TheDetherion]

"Were there any Swedish students at Hogwarts?" J. K. Rowling: "Yes, Odin Odinsson von Thorsson."

[@emmavastenberg4862]

More like Erik Svensson XD

[@TorianTammas]

Yes I remember he was the guy with the IKEA interieur and the Swedish meatballs. What do you mean it is not in the book? Sven Svenson us a character that exists between the lines.

[@MariOmor1]

Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg

[@yderga8707]

@@MariOmor1 i swear he has the most Swedish name ive ever heard.

[@lordindulgence]

Gunnar Gunnarson

[@LethalByte69]

She could have just said: "Although I never wrote any Jewish characters in my books, I can confirm that people of all backgrounds are welcome at Hogwarts." Wow, that was really easy!

[@josome7451]

Well I don't think she could say that either lol.

[@nonyabusiness2032]

All she had to do was quote her own damn book. Seriously " hogwarts will be there..." yea, yea you know the quote. She should of used that instead.

[@EvolverForU]

for hermione, she could've also just said "yea, i originally wrote hermione as white, but i believe she can be portrayed by anyone of any race" but no, jk rowling is an idiot and thinks the only way people will accept diversity is to retroactively change her series and say that it was inclusive the whole time actually

[@m143_sumaiyatabassum6]

that's the thing I don't understand. Jk Rowling is definitely at fault here but audience are too. If you think a white person can be replaced with a black person, then it's also okay to replace the black ones with white ones, replacing asians with white people and indians with black people. I think ethnicity is a very important aspect of humans and plays a big role in the characteristics of a character. I would never want Hermione to be played by a black actor just for the sake of wokeness just like I'll never want the parvati sisters to be played by white actors.

[@josome7451]

@@m143_sumaiyatabassum6 I feel like this argument doesn't fully work though. We've gotten a point where we hold onto a lot of history in our culture. A problem with that though is that a lot of this culture has been made with white people within the fore front because white people had control over the entertainment industry and what not. I dont think its wrong, as me a white person, to think that white characters can be replaced with poc (and other genders, sexualities, what not and whatever) (if done respectfully), mostly due to centuries of modern culture overly representing white people, even in roles that they shouldn't. Its not just "wokeness" but literally making characters more representative. And its a hard thing to see because we grew up with a prominent amount of white people in the media we consume.

[@lizzlemmon6895]

I liked the first one a lot too. There was another KZbinr that made a whole video essay about Newt Scamander's kindness and how it's a counter to typically hyper masculinity that main male characters tend to fall into.

[@karolinakuc4783]

I saw it too. The channel is called Cinema Theraphy

[@rileymachelle4088]

That's exactly why I liked Newt in the first movie. He honestly reminded me of the Doctor from Doctor Who a lot, like I could see Eddie Radmayne as playing a really good version of the Doctor

[@richardbourton4523]

As a zookeeper in real life, I too would resent being forced into working for Interpol against my will in a situation I have no relevant skills for. I already really didn’t like the film, but Newt caving and joining the fight just extra rubs me the wrong way. I hate the magic and real nazis as much as anyone if not more, but I’m low on the necessary skills to fight them directly. Let us be with the animals!

[@evelynway3633]

It’s almost like J.K didn’t even read her own books...

[@pakito546]

Evelyn Way she just forgot, like the potion with jacob....or remembered one of those two

[@isaacmcpherson1855]

Evelyn Way Well, she didn’t. I believe I read her saying that she never read over her books again after writing them.

[@lemmyboy4107]

@@pakito546 That was like: J.K : " Then jacob comes in and ..." Some randome guy who actually knows the story: "Yeah but didnt he forget evrything?" J.K : "Ah yeah, no problem he didnt forget anything" Some randome guy who actually knows the story: "Wait... WHAT???!"

[@asmahasmalaria8596]

The problem with Rowling is, because she obviously never had a plan for the HP series and universe, she makes her plan up as she goes along and it shows in the bad worldbuilding overall. It has shown in plotholes in the HP series and ,more damning, in the fantasic beasts series.

[@mynameuhhhleg]

@@Valancet she didn't write it

[@jasoncaetano9708]

1:44 "we have Ezra Miller trying his hardest to look even a little bit ugly in this movie" And he kept trying and eventually succeeded

[@TheFirstCurse1]

He looks like a creepy abomination already, I don't get why he said that line.

[@Macapta]

For the record, Anthony Goldstein was a character in the books. If you want a specific example he’s mentioned in page 658 of Order of the Phoenix.

[@thunderclanwarrior1253]

He's actually mentioned earlier on page 314, chapter 16 (in my edition, at least). Idk if he appears earlier)

[@emma_704]

Exactly, he was a member of the DA.

[@mnschoen]

I'm sorry, is this a defense? She dropped in a stereotypically named Jewish kid in TWO lines in a seven-book series. At that point WTF is the point? That's not a character. That's a racist Jewish insert. That's a name, not a character.

[@karolinakuc4783]

​@@mnschoenHe isn't developed but I assume there are jews at Hogwarts. It is just that they are atheists coz all religions are banned in Hogwarts

[@a.wen.6987]

​@@mnschoen I mean its stupid but why racist? Jew is not race first of all, the time we tjought that are over.

[@taltamir]

>Hogwarts did not always have bathrooms The entire plot of the chamber of secrets is that one of the founders of hogwarts had created a secret chamber in a bathroom when he created the school, so he could shove his snake in there

[@Samrules888]

@@healsthefeels-eso1053 right because that's not more convoluted than the gordian knot

[@sethfinberg348]

And the Basilisk was secretly able to move about the school by means of the pipes/plumbing.

[@LiveHedgehog]

The real question is, why is the plumbing in Hogwarts so massive that a giant snake can slither in them without getting stuck?

[@brothermanben7140]

@@LiveHedgehog Wizards take big shits

[@RuberDildo]

The basilisk is actually a metaphor for pro-abortion.

[@panyarou]

when the only Asian character in the book is named "Cho Chang," i'm not even surprised.

[@s.g.7572]

Reminds me of that one character in Aristocats, called Egg Foo Yung or something

[@hutch4463]

@Atharva Deshpande they were living in English?

[@hutch4463]

@Atharva Deshpande np, it's a good point about the patil twins

[@UltramanII]

When the book was translated in China, her name was converted to "Zhang Qiu"(张秋) to make sense in Mandarin. It's like an OK name, not too great and not too common either. I never realized how stereotypical the original name sounds in English until I started to understand how Asians are represented in the English-speaking world.

[@blaiserrie]

It really irked me because one's a Korean surname and the other is a Chinese surname

[@matyaskassay4346]

Just a quick thing I'd like to add: Nagini in the movies is portrayed as a reticulates python, which naturally lives in India and southeast Asia. So I think if they really had to turn her into a human, it was kind of a wasted potential that they didn't cast ex. an indian or thai person to play her. Not to mention the fact that the name Nagini also comes from indian.

[@Livael23]

While I agree with a lot of what you say, I do want to point out a couple of things though : (1) Anthony Goldstein IS in the books, but like, only name dropped as the Ravenclaw Prefect in OOTP, and clearly not an actual character x) (2) It was blatantly obvious by the end of the first Fantastic Beasts film that Jacob was gonna get his memory back, with the whole "bad memory" thing and with the scene where Queenie is showing up in his bakery. (3) Accio is perfectly useable on living creatures, Harry uses it several times like this in the books (from the top of my mind, on a toad a couple times, and on Hagrid in DH). Although why JKR said in an interview that Accio could not be used on living beings, I couldn't say, I guess it's just the fastest thing she could come up with. (4) "We officially have magical sex crimes in Harry Potter" I mean... yeah? That was kind of the whole plot of the Half-Blood Prince, it's literally Voldemort's backstory x) (5) "Grindlewald just happens to be hosting a nazi rally where the characters were hanging out" no, he led them to this spot specifically, it's terribly written and super convoluted so it's not the most obvious but like, it was a "bait" or whatever to bring Credence to the rally and make him join him because only he knows who he is or whatever. (6) I'm surprised you didn't mention how stupid the very idea of the Blood Pact is. Like, beyond the fact that it absolutely ruins Dumbledore as a character, why, WHY, would Grindlewald make a Blood Pact that CAN BE BROKEN to prevent his most dangerous enemy from moving against him in a world where THE UNBREAKABLE VOW EXISTS. And it's not even that she forgot about the Unbreakable Vow (even though it would not be an excuse either), Yusuf Kama's only purpose as a character is that he made a fricking Unbreakable Vow to kill Corvus Lestrange. This is easily one of the most stupid, nonsensical part of the movie. Gods this film is so bad, and it's such a shame because imo the first film is really good. I would have 100% preferred more films about Newt Scammander roaming the world finding, helping, freeing magical creatures rather than this bullshit war with Grindlewald. The cast from the first film made such an awesome group of characters, I would have gobbled up any fun, light hearted adventures they would have embarked in to complete Newt's Pokédex.

[@KateJn]

Saying all that I just want to say that I've watched the first movie I got back into thinking about Jonny Depp and the fact that I had watched it some time ago. I haven't watched the crimes of Grindelwald though and you saying that makes me feel like I shouldn't because I'll just be disappointed as the first movie was good

[@Livael23]

@@KateJn Honestly you might as well not watch it and just consider that the first film as standalone 😂

[@dequasont1063]

I don’t mind a movies series about the war on grindelwald, but when you try and put 2 stories into one you just get the worst of both and create a mess

[@HerHollyness]

Thank you for mentioning Anthony Goldstein’s book appearance! I havent seen any other comments about this and thought I was going mad. I could only remember him in the first book being sorted just before Hermione, but you’ve confirmed he’s in OOTP as well which is true. JK is very problematic but Anthony wasn’t just a late stage retcon.

[@rileymachelle4088]

​@@dequasont1063Not only 2 stories into one, but stretching it out into 5 movies. I would've much rather had one standalone Fantastic Beasts movie and that be it for Newt, and then two movies for the Dumbledore vs. Grindelwald storyline. Or hell, I'd take a streaming series about Newt Scamander like what OP said, and it just being him filling out his Pokedex for his book. Kinda like Doctor Who. Have Newt travel with Jacob as his companion, and each new episode be about a different beast that they need to help and put in their briefcase

[@mabbott946]

Nobody: J.K Rowling: *actually, Hogwarts is a gay bar*

[@MrRomanrin]

i knew it !!!

[@evam6961]

Thank god

[@SupremeLeaderOfTheBluepremacy]

I should have known

[@Ryan-pg1tw]

you should be more respectful

[@nikkoclout]

Looks at the amount of Likes

[@victoryarn4381]

No one: Absolutely no one: J.K Rowling: Dumbledore was actually a T H I C C latina

[@KillZoneHart1]

*Who sucked off Grindelwald*

[@royokimoto5150]

@@KillZoneHart1 From Tijuana

[@darktooth347]

now that's what I am talking about, and Greenwald is a spicy minx from Wales with red hair w h o takes three guys at once, Fucc ye thicc nutt

[@claudeolson893]

The real gag is it's implied in DH that his mother is Native American soo....

[@thatoneguy779]

Really

[@Ummmmmmmm841]

Were ther any Chinese students at Hogwarts JK Rowling: Yes Cho Chang, Ravenclaw Oh wait......

[@righttoleftrepeat]

"Just _one_ Chinese student in the entire school???" JK Rowling: There was also Chun Ching, Hufflepuff.

[@mnschoen]

TBF we're just lucky Rowling didn't call her "Ching Chong Bing Bong" and then gasp and need her smelling salts when we all pointed out how racist that was.

[@karolinakuc4783]

​@@mnschoenAt the same time it is a book for kids with cartoon logic. Naruto also isn't a real name yet Japanese don't feel offended by it. Coz guess what? It is their own production. They sure have a lot of fun thinking Americans think it is a real name when it is actually just a name for rice cookie. Do you think there were cases of Americans naming their kids Naruto?

[@alphashitlord1446]

No one: JK Rowling: Grindlewald killed Biggie and Tupac

[@davidwuhrer6704]

What about Falco?

[@alphashitlord1446]

@@davidwuhrer6704 that was the bus driver from Prisoner of Azkaban

[@CyanideOwl]

Shouldn't it be: 'Everyone: '

[@rai4119]

@@CyanideOwl Yeah, but A for effort

[@jonathanodne7691]

I thought Mista killed them.

[@Snowunicorn1snow2]

Maybe Grindelwald looks the way he does because he was going through a very intense breakup from a very intense sexual relationship at the time.

[@shubhroy7960]

Hilarious! 😂

[@cas3571]

This is canon.

[@ddg4169]

you forgot to put abusive before relationship.

[@ruansasa289]

@@ddg4169 but, he is the abuser

[@Dommbuscus]

@@ruansasa289 That's just not true

[@devinvanleeuwen1671]

Fun fact: Anthony Goldstein actually IS mentioned in the books

[@hilarygillis8592]

Honestly as an HP fan, I adored the first Fantastic Beasts, I thought it was cute and enjoyable. If it had ended there, I would've been happy. It's just some sweet Hufflepuff helping his fur babies. That's all we wanted! The whole Gridlewald new wizarding war ruined it. No one asked for that and no one wanted it.

[@Rockefellaxo]

Where there any Hawaiian students at Hogwarts? J.K Rowling: Yeah, Maui Pineapple, Hufflepuff

[@KingAgniKai]

Its *MAUI* time

[@hamsterc6448]

*Maui Pineapple Obama

[@jackiesoals8896]

It’s worse when you realize that pineapples aren’t native to Hawaii

[@dust195]

No one: JK Rowling: Dumbledore's patronus is black bisexual Ron Weasley

[@blackenedtrooper]

I laughed more than I probably should've

[@jennycustovic1280]

Sums up Rowling perfectly

[@scumbletheholy4210]

This comment made me cackle like a witch

[@FriezaSucks]

it's like everyone forgot she was a cokehead

[@craftpaint1644]

LMFAO !

[@dontask9000]

What made the first movie good is how it lived up to the name. It’s called Fantastic beasts and where to find them, and that’s what they did. Newt and Jacob went on a fun quest to find Newts magical creatures that escaped in New York. It had a fairly good and digestible plot that was entertaining and had good characters to go with it. But then the next two movies went into the lore of Dumbledores past with Grindlewald and idk it just completely strayed from the point of Fantastic beasts in general. JK Rowling should’ve made a separate franchise or even a single movie that goes more in depth into Dumbledores past. The Fantastic Beast franchise should’ve just been centered around Newt and his magical creatures. Heck I wouldn’t mind if they just made a show about Newt and him handling his magic beasts and having fun adventures with them (with help from Jacob and even Tina and Queenie).

[@Dutch_van_der_linde939]

Newt twerking at the beginning perfectly describes the movie

[@karolinakuc4783]

But that scene in the film made sense. Rhinoes have poor eyesight and rely on hearing and sense of smell. Therefore Newt could trick that creature

[@Dutch_van_der_linde939]

@@karolinakuc4783 you lost me

[@christmasload1236]

No one: No one: Jk Rowling: Harry Potter is a Jamaican black market arms dealer

[@MonochromeTrouble]

I'd read that.

[@kieranstark7213]

Lel

[@kizuuwu7563]

You forgot to metion that he's a transman

[@link4585]

Id read it

[@yankeed.5250]

You forgot to include gay too.

[@Lebron98]

“Were there any Vietnamese students?” JK: You have Cho Chang “But she’s not-“ JK: Cho Chang Nguyen...

[@Kornchipzzz]

Hahahahhaahhahahahahhhaha this one is hilarious

[@alstjrqkr689]

😂🤣

[@bandana.7077]

Cho Chang is not even a Vietnamese name, lmao

[@Prof.SeverusSnape]

@@bandana.7077 ho ho~! She mixed-race now! Uno Hermione reverse card! "Dark hair, Asian eyes, never specified."

[@jamesramplin8124]

Have you seen a very potter musical? Cho Chang, Domo arigato! Cho Chang, Gung Hey Fat Choy, Chang! Happy Happy New Year, Cho Chang! [DIALOGUE] Ginny: Who's that? Ron: That's Cho Chang-that's the girl Harry's totally been in love with, since freshman year. Hermione: Yeah, but he won't say anything to her. Ron: Yeah, you never tell a girl you like her, it makes you look like an idiot! Ginny: Konnichiwa, Cho Chang. It is good to meet you. I am Ginny Weasley. Lavender: Bitch, I ain't Cho Chang! Ron: That's Lavender Brown! Racist sister! *Ron claps his hands in front of Ginny's face to scare her* Cho: That's alright! I'm Cho Chang y'all.

[@irenediaz5432]

I'll always find fascinating how Rowling doesn't care at all about her own canon.

[@therainbowconnection6813]

It's because she only cares about fame and money, she doesn't give a damn about art.

[@poppie267]

She is even worse than George Lucas with the prequels.

[@shadowssok7]

Anthony Goldstein is in book 5 and 6, I think he asked hermine why she was not in Ravenclaw in the first day sign up metting

[@AlexanderTheBloodraven]

“Are there any American students at Hogwarts?” JKR: Yes, Ronald McDonald, Gryffindor.

[@RodrigoMAOEE]

Favorite spell: Engorgio

[@yotitus]

euh clearly ronald mcdonals is in hufflepuff

[@aspookyeel]

Hans Christian Nazi Müller is clearly my favourite german character in Harry Potter... I also heard that the third part takes place in Berlin... I didn't want to watch the movie initially because y'know JK doesn't rly like people like me. But I want to know just how much she managed to butcher my Country and the introcacies of it's history.

[@JoeyScraggy]

@@aspookyeel I saw it because I hate myself, and I can confirm you barely notice the movie happens in Berlin. Also she dropped the whole WW2 thing for some reason, and it became a story on why should minorities stay hidden and revolutions are evil. It would be less subtle if magic cops destroyed Grindelwald's defensive spell "Stonewallius"

[@aspookyeel]

@@JoeyScraggy She probably dropped the ww2 thing because it would require her to actually portray minorities. And yeah yikes, sounds like JK alright... Also nice one on the stonewallius joke. Well, I might see it someday on a 'legal' site because I'm just too curious for my own good.

[@Thezoiys]

J.K is the greatest villain of harry potter franchise.

[@psychichorse]

She has surpassed Umbridge.

[@AbMaSync]

Maybe the most interesting too, the way she plays with the "death of the author" concept and changes or add lore every freaking week is remarkable: "OH you're right, Hermione could be black (she read some fanfiction with that change, and she adopted it). Wait no Dumbledore is GAY now. Some said they wanted a new perspective of the series? Ok. No wait that wasn't that popular, was it? Now this is the prequels of Harry Potter"

[@kieranstark7213]

She was a greater villain than Voldemort as well? XD

[@blackmoon4674]

Voldemort is not a villain, the poor guy is just misunderstood.

[@Auron1Roxas2]

No the real villain are you assholes in the toxic HP fandom crying over nothing.

[@mrsloveydove4579]

Johnny Depp’s version of Grindelwald looks like a silkie chicken man, God bless him 😅

[@ultron374]

True, i laughed so loud after I read ur comment 😅😅🤣🤣🤣

[@dago6410]

Why was JK so good in the past, like meta-level good, like "actually actually understanding all the deep structure of why good literature is good" kinda stuff, and then she just became the fanfic writer for her previous self? Is there any explanation? Like, in general, brilliant artists don't JUST lose all their talent in one finger snap?

[@pastis2976]

She used to write books, so she had plenty of time to think through all the details of the story and make it make sense. So when they were making the movies, they had a lot of elements to choose from, things to cut from the story or elements to combine with others to shorten the narrative to make sense. Now she writes film scripts, which is not exactly the same thing. Scripts are (I think) much shorter and less detailed, and she only has about a year to think about what comes next and organize those ideas into a "decent" story. The result is... A great disappointment.

[@misterjr193]

jk was never good lets be honest here. the harry potter books are "good" only through the lenses of nostalgia i love the books to death don't get me wrong but they aren't that good. jk writes weirdly, it ends up clunky, it's overly convoluted and complex to the point where there is so much unnecesary shit that it ends up contradicting and folding upon itself. she's better at writing books than movies don't get me wrong, but like, all the narnia books are superior, really most books are superior actually. it was eye-opening for me as a teenager to read actually quality literature and realise that these books weren't all that. it's a shame really because she has some genuinely good ideas but it's fumbled by her poor writing, terrible pacing and her outrageously dull approach to politics

[@SatanicPizza-fo2ei]

​@@misterjr193Did you read "The Casual Vacancy" ? I haven't yet, if you did, what do you think about it?

[@misterjr193]

@@SatanicPizza-fo2ei no; but what i hear of it is that it's more of jks inability to actually create a compelling social narrative that has a solution that isn't a simpe slap band-aid "well that's done for!" type ending. once again, have not read though

[@TheFirstCurse1]

​@@misterjr193The Harry Potter books are amazing, and that isn't just "through nostalgia lenses". The world building and characters are masterfully written. You need to re-read them apparently.

[@CropDudia480p]

It seems J.K. Rowling never read 'Hogwarts: A History'

[@maverickdarkrath4780]

I don't think she ever actually read her own books after there incial release

[@CropDudia480p]

@@maverickdarkrath4780 Just wrote 'em and never touched them again

[@XX-um1du]

I don’t think she paid attention in Professor Binns’ class either

[@MrAsthmatic]

No one reads that book lol

[@CropDudia480p]

@@MrAsthmatic I know. I was just trying to emulate a Hermione-ish thing to say if that makes sense

[@tamardagmarvideos4368]

"Let me commit genocide to prevent someone else from committing genocide." -Gellert Grindelwald

[@epickrimson72]

I kill peeple to stop kill peeple -Gert Gendergert

[@fy4b230]

He only reqd the cliff notes of “The Book of Thanos”.

[@ykomat6860]

So Punisher logic?

[@keyboardwarrior3702]

Someone's gotta make the tough choices

[@alegsb3943]

You ever heard of uh… wars?

[@szabok1999]

Say what you want about Rowling, but Anthony Goldstein DID appear in the books. He was mentioned multiple times as a background student, and he even joined Dumbledore's Army. Him being jewish wasn't mentioned, but his stereotipical name was the same back then.

[@jotarokujo3603]

Man JK really does dig her own holes regarding literally any topic she's questioned on. It's totally okay that when she wrote fiction from her imagination that most of the people she wrote were what she's familiar with, that's pretty normal and didn't make her a bad person, but oh boy did her trying to act like that wasn't what happened make her look like an asshole.

[@freako9805]

There’s villains with relatable motives, and then there’s villains who are trying to stop the holocaust

[@kotorandcorvid4968]

?

[@NGorso1]

@@kotorandcorvid4968 !

[@nathancrossen2224]

@@Miuranger1 Fuck yourself.

[@steffenjensen422]

You realize that that's entirely not the actual motive of Grindelwald though, do you?

[@troglodude980]

@@pacoramon9468 Is she wrong tho?

[@Hecatonicosachoron]

No one: JK Rowling: Dumbledore's patronus is the Grindr logo

[@villainessy]

Hecatonicosachoron favorite comment in this entire section. Fucking killed me.

[@breakingfreedom4272]

HAHAHAHA I'm telling everyone I know about this one!!

[@quekscoop5601]

No one: JK Rowling: Dobby had a secret sexual relationship with harry

[@andrewjohnstone7943]

This is fun. No one: JK Rowling: Hermione and Ron were into bdsm the while time, and Hermione played Dom. It never said in the books that they weren't into it

[@ffccardoso]

@@andrewjohnstone7943 thats something I could watch...

[@NiLA_l0l]

"Were there any German students at Hogwarts?" JKR: "Yes, Günther Schmitz-Müller, Ravenclaw"

[@taichimokubaful]

Actually... Anthony Goldsteen Is in the books😐. I was re-visiting the series some months ago with audible and, when his name popped out I started laughing out loud, alone, in my car. Oh... And Acchio charm can move Animals. Hermione uses it to move a frog, in the books. That doesn't make the movie or JKR Crazy recton any better... But we have to be Fair.

[@malahamavet]

"She made Hermione black to appeal to black HP fans, and as a black HP fan myself, *it didn't work* " Me: DAAAAAAMN!!! 🤣

[@denzelnganga1914]

I'm black too and it was like..... ok but why do we need this again?

[@Kairos_Akuma]

@@denzelnganga1914 Yeah... I mean fine and dandy to have differences n Stuff, but then.....DO IT FROM THE BEGINNING. Hermione is hella white, or why did she choosed Emma to play her, when all the other Charakters "of ethinicty" where played by the correkt Actor as far as Im aware. (Cho, Dean, - dont know if the Books mentioned the Patiltwins beeing Indian tho - etc.) Even the Bookcovers depicted her as White oLo I dont know... Harry Potter was never about this. I can buy the Gay-Dumbledore stuff, its nice and I saw hints in the Book, but that Hermione is suddenly someone completely different.. No.

[@wickedshadowchester6297]

Calhaora Lightsbane Dean, Jordan, Patilt twins and Angelina, Kingsley, weren't white ...other than that idk who else

[@TheDemocrab]

​@@Kairos_Akuma This is exactly how I feel about it. She even retcons her retcons...I'm sure that when she first said about Dumbledore being gay, it was that he loved Grindleward and followed him at first due to that, but Grindleward just used those feelings without feeling the same way. Now it's "an intense sexual relationship"... That and the books weren't exactly lacking diversity to begin with, as you mentioned. (I don't think it was mentioned that the Patil twins were Indian but it was hella obvious from the names alone. I picked that up as a bloody Australian kid.)

[@lukelim5094]

@@TheDemocrab I understand the angle where good friends diverge from their path and one become evil while the other choose to be good. I was dead sure it will be a tale where Dumbledore have unrequited feelings for Grindelwald, and Grindelwald still treat Dumbledore as a friend and both want to pull each other to their sides. I can accept that.. But intense sexual relationship..... Like how does this enhance the story? I'm reading a story about good vs evil not 50 shades of grey. Their sex life doesn't enhance the story one bit especially if it is shoehorn haphazardly. Is this JK rowling depression acting out and she wanting acceptance or something

[@RajonRondo33]

J.K Rowling out here changing the past of prewritten characters

[@cookingsauce8274]

Harry Potter Is a transgender

[@sirloinofice]

She just wants attention.

[@sirloinofice]

@@cookingsauce8274 she hates Trans people...a lot.

[@ubermaster1]

@@sirloinofice Oh god please be actually joking. I already hate this lady as if for constantly changing characters.

[@sirloinofice]

@@ubermaster1 I'm not

[@Bigcat33]

I was half expecting a character to go “no wait I already killed him” and flash back to a point where the villain is killed and then they pan back to reality and the villian is gone. Its just retcon ontop of retcon

[@c0h090]

Now I know why I fell asleep multiple times trying to finish watching this movie. As a HP fan, I hated this extension to its world.

[@Quaronna]

"Were there any Scottish students at Hogwarts?" J.K.: "Yes. Braveheart, Gryffindor.”

[@the_one_who_got_away]

I would say ravenclaw, because blue

[@fleetwoodcraic4235]

I like the implication that hogwarts is in Scotland but only has one Scottish student

[@Quaronna]

@@fleetwoodcraic4235 💀

[@MrHowardMoon]

I believe there were loads of Scottish students, but only two in the actual movies.

[@yusufgazi7]

Cho Chang was Scottish in the movies I swear

[@TheLeah2344]

“Just admit that you made a story about straight white kids in the 90’sand stop lying to us”. Thank you. I hate when people do they instead of just creating a new story introducing new diverse characters. 🙌🏿

[@byakuya786]

She is the worst author ever

[@deet917]

@@byakuya786 she's become the most meme author ever. Used to be great but has gone downhill

[@byakuya786]

@@deet917 I think she is just a victim of her success and its impacted her writing

[@kaylubproductions4517]

She used to be great. Now... well... Dumbledore is gay... that’s all I have to say, it pretty much explains everything.

[@heyitsmira17]

Should just do it like Rick Riordan. Just write new characters or build them to arrive to a point instead of changing the rules you've already established

[@svetaAFG]

It is sad that we could've had fun and lighthearted series about Newt Scamander and fantastic beasts, but instead we got badly written fanfic on Dumbledore x Grindelwald by JKR

[@Musicalheart430]

YES! Newt is my favourite character of all time! I wish the series was more about him and his magical beasts

[@christopher.saint.christopher]

--Were there any Nicaraguan students at Hogwarts? --No, but there were some there as janitors.

[@carneliansnowdrop]

“after Ezra Miller exploded in New York he joined the circus and he’s now in Paris”

[@michaellorah9051]

"And he's now sexually involved with a snake lady from china"

[@maurirz5585]

@@michaellorah9051 Indonesia

[@michaellorah9051]

@@maurirz5585 nerd

[@michaellorah9051]

@clarissa35f guess somebody can't take a joke :p

[@PatrickBasedman1]

Well that's a sentence I'd never thought I'd hear.

[@tatersalad76]

NASA: *discovers life on Mars* J.K. Rowling: Harry was actually 45% Martian from his father's side

[@shosty575]

🤣🤣🤣

[@shosty575]

@@Joey-iq3cl 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@renz1013]

@@Joey-iq3cl *BRUH* momment

[@preposteroussongs5572]

Actually Anthony Golstein was in the books. He was one of like six named Ravenclaws

[@amishwarl0rd350]

This is the funniest analysis I’ve seen of this movie, and I can’t wait to see what you do with the next one

[@rayenaouadi3190]

Where there any Canadian students at hogwarts? J.K. : Yes, Maple “Thank you” Syrup, Gryffindor

[@Supermelo29]

I laughed out loud omg HAHHAHA

[@gianinparisquebecparis814]

You forgot their middle name, "Sorry"

[@beanlord6656]

Hufflepuff,actually

[@Alex-jk1kd]

LOL

[@elfymbouity]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@giovannijacobs4496]

No one: JK: The Sorting Hat was previously a man named Hatteus Sorte who was locked in Azkaban for being a paedophile but was released by Dumbledore to satisfy his repressed desire for Grindelwald in exchange for being transfigured into a hat once per year in order to touch young children's heads.

[@nicoledenel]

This is dark... but I kinda like it😬

[@galldomain5685]

No. Just no. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. NO.

[@zonQe]

Jesus

[@RD-oo6yq]

I actually fear that she might read this and try to make this canon with her next tweet.

[@jacobpickett5085]

Sortio Hattae* and if you rearrange the letters it becomes "Draaaaarrrrryyyy"