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Do you know why I admire you, Nick?

You do not seek power.

You simply ask, is the thing right?

The time's coming.

When you're going to have to pick a side.

I don't do sides.

What are you going to do?

I think it's nothing.

You never met a monster you couldn't love.

Hello and welcome to another Slate Spoiler special. I'm Dan Cois. I'm an editor at Slate. I'm here in Slate's D.C. office. And I'm joined remotely by senior editor Jeffrey Blumer, who is up in New York. Hi, Jeff. Hi, Dan. So today we are spoiling Fantastic Beasts, the Crimes of Grindelwald, or as it's pronounced in the movie, Grindelwald.

It's the second movie in the Fantastic Beasts series. That series are a set of prequels to the

Harry Potter series, and altogether, along with 10,000 other ancillary products, they're all

part of the wizarding world, J J.K. Rolling's Harry Potter

collective universe. As always in spoiler specials, we are going to be discussing the plot in detail,

which is the only way to discuss the plot of this completely insane movie. So if you do not want

to know about which character in the Harry Potter universe has a brother, we've never

heard about until now even though

we already read most of a biography of this fucking character written by Rita Skeeter in canon.

Don't listen any further.

So let's establish our bona fides first.

Jeff, what is your connection to Harry Potter?

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