Everything You Need To Know About Harry Potter Spin-Off Before Watching Grindelwald

The Crimes of Grindelwald, the second part of the Fantastic Beasts film series and the tenth movie on Wizarding World is available to see this Friday.

The first movie of series Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was released almost two years ago.

The next installment continues to move forward the adventure of Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) and Albus Dumbledore ( Jude Law). Here is a quick look at the franchise before you decide to go to watch David Yates film.

1. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them?

The first spin-off follows the stories of a magizoologist Newt Scamander to collect information on fantastic creatures for his book in 1926 New York City. This book is also mentioned in the Harry Potter series as a teaching book at Hogwarts.

Newt Scamander gets caught up in conflict when some of the magical creatures in his briefcase are accidentally released.

The situation gets more chaotic and dangerous when an orphan Credence becomes an Obscurus after being promised to teach to use power but Percival Graves. Credence wreaks havoc in New York and after he is defeated, his life is uncertain. In the end, Graves is unveiled to be exactly Grindelwald by Newt's spell.

2. Who is Grindelwald

Grindelwald was the darkest evil figure in the wizarding world before the Lord Voldemort.

He met Albus accidentally and they quickly became firm friends. However, after the death of Albus’s sister Ariana caused by a three-way confrontation between Gellert, Albus, and Aberforth, Grindelwald fled and became a real dark wizard.

3. The participation of new characters

In the Harry Potter series, Albus Dumbledore appears in the role of a prestigious headmaster and father figure of the orphaned boy Potter, Fantastic Beasts brings a younger version of him differently. Dumbledore has an intimate relationship with the biggest villain Grindelwald. Therefore, he didn’t want to take action against Grindelwald.

The film also cast some characters from the past of Newt Scamander like Theseus (Callum Turner) and Zoe Kravitz (Leta Lestrange).

4. Who is Nagini?

Nagini is Voldemort’s favorite snake which coiled around her master, the one who is eventually revealed to be another Horcrux. Voldemort had separated his soul and stored them into seven horcruxes.