Hey everyone,
Welcome to another installment of Harry Potter Theory.
In today’s video, we’re going to once again be covering the NEWLY released SECOND
Secrets of Dumbledore Trailer, which has given us Harry Potter fans a LOT to talk about.
I mentioned a few theories in my trailer breakdown video (link in description), but I only scratched
the surface of them in that video- and not all of them- so today- I’m going to be discussing,
in more depth, 5 of MY theories pertaining to the trailer.
Let’s get in to it.
1.Where is Tina Goldstein?
Ok- now we’ve had 2 trailers and 1 teaser but absolutely NO sign of Porpen(tina) Goldstein,
one of the MAIN protagonists of both Fantastics Beasts and Where to Find them, as well as
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.
In the previous 2 films, we were given a considerable amount of the American-half blood witch and
Auror’s backstory- like the fact that she attended Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and
Wizardry, and the fact that she was sorted in to Thunderbird house.
She’s even the SISTER of Queenie- who’s STILL IN the film, so it seems highly unusual
that she would be absent from yet ANOTHER trailer.
So- what’s the deal?
Well, my answer is this: Tina Goldstein fans should rest easy- as Porpentina is far too
intertwined in to the story to be removed altogether.
I can say this with confidence for a few reasons.
First of all- Queenie Goldstein- Tina’s sister- is still a MASSIVE part of the plot
and shows up in the t*railer on several occasions.
Removing her sister for no apparent reason would be a huge continuity error- and it just..wouldn’t
make sense.
I don’t think they’d make a critical error like that.
Second of all- Fantastic Beasts fans who are privy to Harry Potter lore should already
know that Tina eventually becomes the wife of Newt Scamander- who just so happens to
be the MAIN character of the films.
We also know that they go on to have children.
Removing her would be far too disruptive to the film AND Harry Potter canon.
It would also invalidate the tension that has been building between Newt and Tina in
the films released thus far.
LASTLY- Katherine Waterston who plays Tina has been credited for the role.
So- where is she?
My theory is that Tina is hidden in plain sight- that is, we’ve seen her in every
trailer so far, we just didn’t realize it.
Tina is Newt’s assistant ‘Bunty’.
Now, I’m not saying that Bunty isn’t an actual person independent from Tina, she totally
is, but what I’m suggesting is that Tina has used a polyjuice potion to assume the
physical form of Bunty.
Now you might be asking- why?
I think there are a few reasons for this- but the primary motivation for assuming the
form of Bunty is that she’s less of a target.
Bunty is a very unassuming character already close to Newt, so hanging around him wouldn’t
really arise any suspicion.
This effectively allows Tina to act in a more covert fashion, and it also might allow her
to avoid unnecessary interactions with her sister Queenie, who has now switched sides.
In the trailer we also see Bunty acting a bit of character, looking at Newt quite firmly
and saying “No one can know everything, not even you”
There’s also the possibility that since we’re further along in the future, Tina
is pregnant with Newt’s child, staying out of the way to avoid danger.
Although I feel like this one is a bit premature.
What do you think?
2.
The Blood Pact
It’s well known that Dumbledore and Grindelwald entered in to a blood pact when they were
young.
“A blood pact is a type of magically binding agreement between two parties who shared their
blood.
It could be made by the parties cutting their hands with their wands and interlacing them
and making the desired oath.
Upon doing this, two glowing drops of blood would raise from their palms and mingle into
one.
Thereafter, a phial would take shape around it, enclosing the drop, signifying that the
deal was struck and serving as a physical manifestation of it.
Once made, the phial was supposedly impossible to destroy.”
In the case of Dumbledore and Grindelwald, they made an oath never to fight each other-
and Grindelwald held the phial in his possession as a safeguard so that Dumbledore wouldn’t
be able to try and destroy it.
As long as the blood pact remained, neither man could attack the other.
However, in the Secrets of Dumbledore trailer we see the phial containing their blood in
Dumbledore’s possession.
It was given to Dumbledore by Newt in the previous film.
Dumbledore is staring at it- presumably figuring out a way to destroy it, and later in that
SAME TRAILER we see the two men (Dumbledore and Grindelwald) fighting.
If they’re ACTUALLY fighting, and this isn’t some kind of dream sequence or out of body
experience, then it means that the pact has been broken.
We know that Dumbledore eventually defeats Grindelwald in an epic duel, but I hadn’t
expected them to duel so early on in the films.
Grindelwald’s defeated in 1945, and this film is supposed to take place in 1939- so,
what’s the deal?
Is this occurring in another dimension?
Does it jump ahead to 1945?
Is this the LAST film?
Or do we still have two more?
3.
For the Greater Good
At one point in the trailer we see Dumbledore and Grindelwald sitting across from one another,
having a rather intense conversation.
Grindelwald says to Albus, rather ominously, “with or without you I’ll burn down their
world”.
This is a scary line, and once again paints Grindelwald with the brush of ‘the bad guy’-
and bad guy he certainly is.
However, a line from that same conversation later on made me think a little bit.
Staring Dumbledore right in the eyes, Grindelwald says to him “It was you who said we would
reshape the world”.
To me this is big, because it suggests that perhaps Grindelwald’s plan of restructuring
the world for the ‘greater good’, establishing a new world hierarchy and enslaving muggles
was actually the master plan of Albus Dumbledore- he just brought Grindelwald along for the
ride.
Up to this point, we were led to believe that the two boys co-created everything, even the
slogan, but what this COULD suggest is that Dumbledore was the original diabolical mastermind-
only leaving his plans behind and gaining perspective after the death of his sister.
4.
Yusuf Kama
Yusuf Kama, born in 1884, was a French pure-blood wizard of Senegalese ancestry.
His character is a little all over the place in the films, and he’s not exactly a ‘good
guy’ but he doesn’t appear to be evil either- he’s grey, at least from what we
can tell so far.
When we’re first introduced to Yusuf he’s hellbent on killing Credence, and that’s
because he believed Credence to be Corvus Lestrange, the son of Corvus lestrange IV,
a man who had used the imperius curse to marry Yusuf’s mother.
He was also acting under an unbreakable vow, imposed by his father, that had him seek revenge
by killing the person who Lestrange loved most in the world.
After learning that his Vow was void (due to Corvus already being dead), Yusuf started
to display a more moral and selfless side, and was not at all tempted by Grindelwald's
persuasive speech at the Lestrange Mausoleum.
At this point, Kama risks his life to save Nagini from the black fire, and then helps
Nicolas Flamel, as well as his former enemies, by conjuring purifying orange flames.
But in the new trailer, I’m not entirely sure where Yusuf’s allegiance lies.
In some scenes, he’s with the good guys- he’s even on the train with them, but in
others he can be seen standing behind and interacting with Grindelwald, as if he is
an acolyte of Grindelwalds.
So, what’s the deal?
Provided that there’s a scene in the trailer where Grindelwald is using his wand to extract
something from Yusuf, I’m willing to bet that he has manipulated Yusuf in some way
in order to bring him over to his side.
Perhaps he offered to take away Yusuf’s painful memories from childhood, or maybe
he took away the memories of him allying up with Newt and gang.
Or MAYBE, just maybe- he used the imperius curse to bring Yusuf under his control.
5.
The Mirror
In the trailer we see who has been revealed to be a young Aberforth Dumbledore, staring
in to a mirror as words begin to form.
This scene has been in both trailers so far.
The only problem with this part of the trailer is that the sentence is incomplete, we’re
only given a little bit of it.
So- what does it say?
And where do these words come from?
This mirror, if you didn’t know, is of course a two-way mirror, one in a pair of mirrors
that are magically connected.
This type of magical artifact allows people to communicate with each other while in different
locations.
Immediately after seeing Aberforth it cuts to Albus, so clearly the two are using mirrors
to communicate.
What message did Albus send to his brother?
All I can make out is:
‘Do You Know’ at the top
With the standalone sections of:
‘Wh’ ‘I’ ‘S’ and ‘IKE..’ at the bottom.
It also looks like there’s a question mark at the end of the sentence.
I spoke with Juan who helps run ‘Harry Potter Theory Espanol’ today and he seemed to think
that it might say:
‘Do you know what it’s like?’
This would effectively be dropping an emotional bomb on to his brother, which could make sense
given that Aberforth blames him for so much.
However, it’s also possible that this text isn’t significant at all.
Later in life Albus says the following of his brother:
“Of course, I'm not entirely sure he can read”
It sounds like a joke, but maybe there’s some truth to it.
Who knows.
What do you guys think it says?
I’d love to hear what you think.
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