This video is full of spoilers, so if you don't want to know what happens at the end of Fantastic Beasts and Where
to Find them, you should leave.
Let's just jump in, final warning
Grindelwald is revealed as masquerading as Percival Graves. Where is the real Percival Graves?
by the way... no one seemed to be looking for him
Is he stuck in a trunk like Professor Moody was? We don't know.
It's the very end, Grindelwald has been defeated. He's being carried off. And Grindelwald has this
moment with Newt by the stairs where they pause and Newt is just kind of standing there and Grindelwald
says "Will we die, just a little?" New just stands there and then he kind of smiles and nods. And I was like wait...
What? ... What just happened??
I have a few different theories that I want to run by you guys because it's such an odd bit of wording
that I think it must mean something. It was actually a little garbled. It was kind of hard to understand
what he said, but I checked it with the screenplay that is out that you can purchase and I'm pretty sure that's
what he said, "Will we die just a little?"
So first theory, did the obscurus kill them, just a little? The way I understand it the obscurus is a dark parasite
that feeds off of a child's repressed magical capabilities. Maybe the obscurus is like a reverse horcux.
Maybe like a horcrux, the obscurus takes part of your soul, but instead of preserving it, maybe it kills it.
In that sense, everyone who was there could have died, just a little. I'm also no sure who the "we" is here
that Grindelwald was talking about. Was he talking about just him and Newt? Was he talking about everyone
in the room? It's a little unclear. Second theory, the deathly hallows. The deathly hallows are all about
cheating death. And we know from the Harry Potter series that Grindelwald is really obsessed with finding
the deathly hallows. In the movie, Grindelwald gave Credence a symbol of the deathly hallows to touch
whenever Credence was ready to call Grindelwald back to him. We know that Grindelwald took the elderwand
from Gregorovich and later in 1945 he will ultimately lose the elder wand to Albus Dumbledore in a duel
What I'm not completely clear on is if Grindelwald possessed the elder wand during the movie
If he was in possession of the elderwand, I'm pretty sure Newt disarmed him at the end of the movie, so does
Newt now have the elder wand? Maybe that's part of the reason Newt and Grindelwald had such an awkward
interaction at the end of the movie. I'm not convinced Newt would have known, but maybe Grindelwald and
Newt were acknowledging that the most powerful wand in the world had just changed ownership over to Newt
And maybe neither of them wanted everyone else in the room to know about it.
Theory three, maybe it was a message to Dumbledore.
We know that Grindelwald's search for the deathly hallows led him to Godric's hollow and that's where he
befriended Dumbledore. Both he and Dumbledore were interested in finding the deathly hallows for different
reasons. Grindelwald really wanted to cheat death. Dumbledore really wanted the resurrection stone
to bring loved ones back. Dumbledore and Grindelwald were also very close because they both wanted to
overturn the Statute of Secrecy. They wanted wizards and witches to be able to live out in the open and not be
hidden from muggles. They also wanted a council of very wise witches and wizards to rule the entire
world, including muggles. Before the events in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them took place,
Dumbledore and Grindelwald would have had an epic falling out over the death of Arianna, Dumbledore's
little sister. Albus, his brother Aberforth and Grindelwald had an epic three-way duel in which a stray curse
killed Arianna. When Grindelwald is reading Newt's record of expulsion from Hogwarts, he's obviously very
interested in the fact that Albus Dumbledore spoke very highly of Newt. That really catches his attention.
So maybe Grindelwald's last words were intended for Albus. Maybe he's hoping that Newt will go back and talk
to his favorite teacher from Hogwarts. We have many movies left to go in this franchise, and we are bound to
see a young Dumbledore very soon, hopefully in the next movie. And maybe Dumbledore will be able to shed
some light on what Grindelwald's last words meant. My last theory is that maybe Grindelwald is just a
strange man, who says strange things. We know he's a little unhinged. He's a little bit of a sociopath who's
who's bent on cheating death so maybe he just says things to kind of pump fake people.
I would be pretty surprised if those last words were just JK Rowling trolling everyone and
being like... "I'm just going to add this in there." So those are my thoughts on Grindelwald's last words
in the movie. Also still dying to know where Percival Graves is. ... Where is he?
I would love to know what you think the meaning is behind that pesky last sentence "Will we die just a little"
Thanks so much for watching, and I'll see you in my next video. Bye!