#fantasticbeasts3

OMG NEWTINA FANS GATHER!!!

Ok, so I did my research as to what new creatures can be found in Brazil, which is the location of the new Fantastic Beasts 3 movie, and guess what.

Kneazles live anywhere.

AND GUESS WHAT: NEWT AND TINA HAVE PET KNEAZLES ACCORDING TO THE ABOUT THE AUTHOR IN NEWT’S BOOK!

WHICH MEANS THEY BE GETTING TOGETHER IN THE NEXT MOVIEEEEEEEEE!

This hurts. This actually hurts. I said I’d write something more eloquent and pretty when I’d calmed down...well if emotionally drained counts as calm then I am so calm. 

When Johnny lost the libel case against The Sun, it was infuriating sure but there would be an appeal, more hope. There is no hope here. I can wish that something changes but I don’t have any belief left in me. Warner Bros. has made it clear that abuse is not dictated by the action but by the perception of that action. He did everything right. He had the evidence. He complied. He bared his life to the world and this...

I think part of the pain is now knowing with certainty that my past will be treated the same way. That if my story ever gets repeated, no one will take it seriously because my abuser is good at playing the victim. I hadn’t realized how much faith I had placed on this until it was ripped out from under me.

I guess I was wrong. Apparently I still have enough emotion to cry while writing this. I’m just so very tired. God, on top of everything else, I feel so pathetic. There are actual tears in my eyes for a case that had nothing to do with me but I metaphorically pinned my hopes on for no other reasons than I saw myself in that scenario.      

I honestly think I’ve cracked JK’s plan for this series specifically where the Grindelwald/Dumbledore storyline is headed. 

This is a long one but hear me out. How convenient is it that Albus Dumbledore, in vulnerable phase in his life, randomly meets Gellert Grindelwald, known predator of the vulnerable, because he randomly decides to stay with his aunt for the summer. 

I am calling bullshit. 

Here’s what I’m thinking went down. 

Dumbledore’s mother dies of unknown causes and Albus must forfeit his ambitions to return home to look after his brother and mysterious sister. Ariana was already a topic of gossip but the whole saga would have been tantalizing tea for a small village. Enough perhaps that Bathilda Bagshot would have written about it to her relatives in Bulgaria? She was clearly close enough to them to open her own home to Gellert despite his checkered past so it wouldn’t be far-fetched to think that she was in contact with them regularly. 

Meanwhile Gellert Grindelwald has already been studying dark magic which includes obscurials. Recognizing the that one might be living in Godric’s Hollow, he purposely goes there under the guise of getting away to see for himself. But Grindelwald is a snake, He knows he’s going to need a way to get into the home and see for himself. So he goes after the one member of the house who was fragile enough for him to latch onto - Albus. Grindelwald isn’t like Voldemort, he doesn’t scare people into submission. He seduces them, promises them their hearts’ desires. He promised Albus everything he ever wanted, bonus points that Albus would be an extremely useful follower to have. 

JK said that Grindelwald deeply respected Dumbledore and I don’t think he was totally lying when he spoke to Queenie about being free to love. He’s incapable of love but maybe he wanted to. Either way clearly Albus was hopelessly in love with Gellert. He said himself that he was in so deep that he pretended not to care that his lover intended to raise an army of Inferi. He might have also overlooked Gellert’s fascination with Ariana. Aberforth said that Grindelwald told him that his sister wouldn’t have to be hidden in their new world. But even if wizards ruled, Ariana was a danger to the people around her. She’d have some freedom, yes but Grindelwald seemed to want to take her on their campaign...as a weapon. 

I don’t think Grindelwald killed Ariana, one of her brothers did. He wouldn’t have hurt her, he needed her alive. But between losing her and the blow back that must have shaken Albus to his senses, Gellert needed to leave. So he ran off but became obsessed with tracking down another obscurial for himself.