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Hey everyone,
Welcome to another installment of Harry Potter Theory. In today’s video, we’re going
to be discussing, you guessed it, Fantastic Beasts 3: The Secrets of Dumbledore. I’m
going to be pivoting back to regular Harry Potter content shortly, but right now this
film is a big deal, and I’m loving that there’s something NEW buzzing in the Potterverse.
Naturally, with the release of the films title, I’ve been exceedingly curious about what
the film will entail. What new things are we going to be seeing? Which new characters?
WHERE in the wizarding world are we going to be taken? What are the SECRETS of Dumbledore?
And where did my curiosity take me? Why, the films IMDB page of course. Generally, as we
more closely approach the release date of a particular film, the IMDB page starts to
populate with more and more information. And with this information, we can speculate, derive-
and sometimes even extract facts about the film. In the films we’ve seen so far, we’ve
been introduced to a lot of new environments. Places like MACUSA (Magical Congress of the
United States of America) - aka the American ministry, Paris, France, and many more places.
But we’ve also been re-introduced to some familiar territory, like the Hogwarts grounds.
In the films so far the American Hogwarts, also known as Ilvermorny, has been referenced
on several occasions- but we haven’t actually SEEN the school yet which is unusual given
that we’re so closely following some of the school’s graduates- like Tina and Queenie
Goldstein. So, are we going to see Ilvermorny? Well, I sure think so, here’s why:
First of all (and bear with me, I’ve got OTHER reasons to back this) it would be bizarre
for the Fantastic Beasts series, which span the globe, notably the US, to simply exclude
such a large element of the film. Magical schools are the cornerstone of the wizarding
world to which we’ve been introduced, and to omit Ilvermorny wouldn’t make ANY sense.
Years ago, in 2016 to be exact, JK Rowling wrote an entire ORIGIN story for Ilvermorny
school, where she introduced us to Isolt Sayre, the school’s founder.
Isolt was a famous Irish pure-blood witch, the only child and daughter of William and
Rionach Sayre, and the wife of James Steward. Together, with her husband, they founded Ilvermorny
school and established it’s four houses:
Thunderbird Wampus
Horned Serpent and
Pukwudgie
Ilvermorny can be described as follows:
"The great North American school of magic was founded in the seventeenth century. It
stands at the highest peak of Mount Greylock, where it is concealed from non-magic gaze
by a variety of powerful enchantments, which sometimes manifest in a wreath of misty cloud."
If you want to see a comprehensive introduction to Ilvermorny and Isolt Sayre, check out my
video in the PINNED Comment:
Okay, so what’s my other reason for believing that Ilvermorny will make an appearance? Well,
if we look closely at the casting for the film on IMDB- one name sticks out to me: Eulalie
Hicks, who is played by actress Jessica Williams. And why is this name important? Why, that’s
because she’s an American Witch and a professor at Ilvermorny- a professor of Charms to be
exact.
Eulalie makes a brief cameo in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald when she converses
with Nicholas Flamel via his magic book. But that role wasn’t very big, and, reportedly,
Eulalie is going to have a MUCH more significant role in the upcoming film. With a professor
from Ilvermorny appearing more, I really don’t see how we could avoid the prestigious American
magical school.
And that’s it for this video! Are there any other aspects of this film that you’d
like me to cover? Are you enjoying this content or do you want the regular stuff? Comment
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Until next time
Remember
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live