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Hey everyone, welcome to another installment of Harry Potter Theory.

In 2016, we finally got Beasts of Where to Find

them, the first installment of an alleged five-part film series introducing us to a new

wizarding world, one so similar yet so different. It highlighted what the wizarding world

was like in a different era in different parts of the world, and placed

an emphasis on all sorts of new and never-before-seen characters, creatures, and places.

We saw the wizarding world in America for the first time, creatures like Niflers, new magic,

new protagonists, and even a new antagonist. The first film was an entirely new magical experience,

showing us so many unfamiliar things in a world that had become otherwise so familiar.

And just two years later, in 2018, the follow-up film came.

Fantastic Beasts the Crimes of Grindewald. Crimes of Grindewald was able to continue on the path that the first film had laid,

introducing us to so many new concepts and ideas.

However, they were also able to interweave aspects of the magical world that we were already

familiar with, aspects from the original Harry Potter films.

This was a good strategy to try and reel in and captivate audiences that were heavy-hearted

of the veritable lack of old Harry Potter content, the content that we had grown up with.

But this is also where things started to hit the fan.

Despite the very best efforts of Warner Bros, each of the Fantastic Beast films released thus

far had come under heavy scrutiny from their magical fan base, mainly being criticized

for a plot that seemed a little all over the place.

However, the negative attention was duly noted, prompting big changes for the three films

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