Are we sure the part when they first meet hasn't already happened yet? Maybe my sense of timeline is all fucked up but Grindelwald is already wreaking havoc worldwide (as seen in the Newspapers) and he didn't start doing that until after Dumbledore and him tried to unite the Hallows if I recall.
lol, the Hallows wasn't and hasn't ever been just an "added bonus" type of thing, it is what drove Dumbledore and Grindelwald's entire discussion together, Grindelwald obsessed so much over it that he claimed the Hallows symbol as his own. You're acting as if Grindelwald spent his entire teenage life wanting to learn about Obscurials and only approached Dumbledore to get close to his sister. They both acted like Ariana was a burden to their quest for the Hallows and wanted the cloak only as a means to complete the Hallows and hide Ariana so she wouldn't get in their way. Grindelwald's path of destruction across Europe and the States was either him looking for the Elder Wand, or having already obtained the Elder Wand and using its power to try to get his hands on the stone or cloak. Him having seen first hand what an obscurial can do made THAT the side quest, dropping by New York and (probably) killing Graves to get close to another obscurial, likely as an additional tool he can have at his disposal in his quest for the Hallows. Book 7 wasn't Harry Potter and the Powerful Obscurial, it was called the Deathly Hallows because those were the things that tied the entire history of Grindelwald, Dumbledore, Voldemort, the Potters together.
Maybe, but according to the wiki, he doesn't seem to be of much import. He invented a hair potion and sold the company (where the Potter money came from). He wasn't involved in government or in fighting against dark magic. He and his wife were really old when they had James.
on his OWLS he got the following: Outstanding: DADA Exceeds Expectations: Charms, Potions, Care of Magical Creatures, Herbology, and Transfiguration Acceptable: Astronomy Poor: Divination Dreadful: History of Magic If we convert that to A, B, C, D, F grades... Harry would have a 2.44 GPA... not a good GPA. However, if you remove History of Magic and Divination (which is a crap subject anyway)... he has a perfectly acceptable 3.0 (yup, I just did that)
No, he had it. It has been passed father to son for forever. He just didn't seem to use it for any grand schemes.
Don't make excuses for that little shit. Harry was an upper middle-class, white male with an incredible sense of entitlement. He's one of the least likable characters in his own damn book. Hermione practically dragged his ass through 6 years of schooling.
It's amazing he developed it so quickly, being a horribly abused, downtrodden orphan/foster child for so long.
Reread Deathly Hallows, what you're claiming isn't true. The time (which was only two months where they never left Godric's Hollow) they spent together and the notes that Bathilda keeps that are later referenced show the focus of their conversations is on ending the Statute of Secrecy and establishing wizarding rule FOR THE GREATER GOOD. Immediately after Ariana dies, Grindelwald leaves. The Hallows are a means, not the ultimate goal. For Dumbledore that would make sense because he's looking for a way to unburden himself of his sister and for Grindelwald it offers an opportunity to study an obscurial. Immediately after she's dead, he leaves. The end of Fantastic Beasts, he makes his speech that keeping wizardry secret does nothing to benefit wizards as its created and destroyed young wizards with the obscurus. This is extremely similar to what Dumbledore writes Grindelwald when debating the merits of THE GREATER GOOD. And as for him being in the States searching for the Elder Wand, unless they've changed the timeline...he should already have it. Based on what Deathly Hallows says he was roughly the same age when he stole the wand from Gregorovitch as he was when he visited Godric's Hollow. If that's the case there's no way he's in the States searching for Hallows becausd the other two Hallows were passed down as family heirlooms amongst the descendants of the Peverells.
I was just dropping in to ask Colin Ferrell... Was it ever Colin Ferrell in the movie, or was it Johnny Depp the entire time? If the former, when did Colin Ferrell stop being Colin Ferrell and become Johnny Depp? If the latter, where's Colin Ferrell?
Saw it last night. Best hp movie. Also am on book 3 after starting to re-read a week ago. Charmingly cocky dumbledore always makes me smile.
I was visiting family for Thanksgiving and planned to see the movie again with my siblings, so I reread Deathly Hallows at the airport/on the flight so I had something to do.
Enjoyed it immensely. Since I first read the books, I wondered about the wizard community in America, and JK did not disappoint. My biggest surprise was how well Colin Ferrell did. I was nervous about him. What did we decide about spoilers now? Still use tags?
It has been long enough not to require spoilers. Colin Farrel is a great actor and I wish he was actually Grindewald to be honest
The wife and I thought the same thing. Did everyone recognize the Quaker mom? She was the precog in Minority Report.
I think this was the best HP related movie for 2 reasons: 1. No book to base it off of, thus no changes that stick out for people to get mad about. 2. No terrible child actors like Daniel Radcliffe or Rupert Grint that have to carry the bulk of the movie.
It's a little dusty in here http://www.upworthy.com/jk-rowling-...-babys-life-her-response-was-magic?c=hpstream
Gosh dammit, I watch that little stormtrooper video in the Star Wars thread, then come over here for this? You guys are drubbing my emotions this morning.
That's definitely the best movie from the original series, but I think this one was better for the reasons I mentioned. It's also kind of exciting to be a show movie fag for once. Not having any prior knowledge of the story for these next 5? movies is kind of exciting. Makes it much easier for me to just sit back and enjoy at least.
While I've read through the series a couple of times I'd never listened to the audio books until I used my wife's audible account on a work trip for which I forgot to take my Kindle, and now I'm hooked into a listen-through. Started Order of the Phoenix yesterday while working around the house and noticed right away that Dale went from pronouncing Voldemort with a silent 'T' at the end like a French word the first four books to having a very pronounced 'T' at the end in this one. The first few times he emphasizes the T in such a way that it seems like he lost an argument over the pronunciation just before recording and decided to be a right prat about it. /random observation