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(#11) The Mirror Of Erised Shows Your Deepest Secrets, Not Your Past
Late in the film, Dumbledore looks into the Mirror of Erised and sees a memory of his younger self and a young Grindelwald making a bloodpact to never fight one another. Then he sees the adult version of his nemesis and he’s shaken to his core.
Okay, but that’s not what the mirror does. In Sorcerer’s Stone Dumbledore plainly states the mirror shows whomever looks into it their deepest desire, not their memories and then a look at the present version of a person from said memory.
This restructuring of the mirror’s function is specifically for narrative purposes, and it doesn’t really change anything for the rest of the series, but it is a weird choice to make - especially when pensieves exist in this universe.
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(#10) Dumbledore’s Style Doesn’t Fit His Character
One of the best things about the Fantastic Beasts series is it gives fans a chance to see their favorite professors’ younger selves. As cool as it is to see a young, handsome Dumbledore, it’s weird to see him in a suit.
Even in his flashbacks Dumbledore never wore anything that remotely resembled “normal” fashion. He’s always been a plush robe and pillbox hat kind of wizard. So why is he wearing a suit in Crimes of Grindelwald?
Fashions change, and Dumbledore can wear whatever he wants to wear, it’s just odd to see him dressed in such a muted look. Does Jude Law look dashing in a three piece suit? Of course he does. Does his smart fashion sense gel with the character he’s portraying? Not in the least.
Expect to see Law add flourishes of gauzy color into his wardrobe throughout the next three films in the series until he’s in full-on billowy robe territory.
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(#5) Harry Potter Should Have Developed An Obscurus
Obscurials are hard to understand, but according to the Fantastic Beasts films obscuruses are parasites that form on a young wizards or witches as the result of their magic being suppressed through psychological or physical abuse. Usually, obscurials rarely live beyond their childhood and if they actually gain control of their powers it can be trouble for everyone.
That’s all well and good, but why isn’t Harry Potter an obscurial? According to Rowling, Potter didn’t develop the parasite while living with the Dursleys because “Even when he was scolded for 'making things happen,' he didn't make any attempt to suppress his true nature, nor did he ever imagine that he had the power to do so.”
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(#6) Nagini Is A Witch With A Blood Curse, Not A Snake
After Voldemort returns in the original Harry Potter series he’s never seen without his pet snake/horcrux Nagini. Throughout the books there’s no clue that suggests Nagini was once a beautiful witch with a blood curse that made her turn into a snake every night until she finally slithered into full-time snake status. There are 607 pages in Deathly Hallows, so you’d think JK Rowling could have slipped that information in there.
Nagini beginning her life as a woman recontextualizes the entire Harry Potter series. Not only is Neville essentially murdering a woman when he kills Nagini, but the fact that Voldemort has to “milk” the snake in order to stay alive before regaining his full form is rather dark.
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(#7) Tina Goldstein Should Be Master Of The Elder Wand
Even muggles know whoever defeats the wizard who holds the Elder Wand becomes the wand’s new owner. This rule is established in Half-Blood Prince when Malfoy disarms Dumbledore, who got the wand the same way after defeating Grindelwald.
That’s all great, but Crimes of Grindelwald creates a major hole in this narrative. During the film’s finale in the LeStrange crypt, Tina Goldstein defeats and disarms Grindelwald, which should make her master of the wand - only that doesn’t happen.
Maybe JK Rowling is planning a big switcheroo for one of the later films, but at the time of Grindelwald’s release it looks like she forgot her own mythos.
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