All Fantastic Beasts & Harry Potter Characters Who Are Related
This article contains spoilers for Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore.
Even though Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is set nearly sixty years before the events of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, there are still characters in both Fantastic Beasts and Harry Potter related to one another. Now that there are eleven films in the Wizarding World saga, the franchise's on-screen timeline is teeming with rich lore, complex characters, and a well-established canon. In many cases, these fully realize both the past, present, and future of the Wizarding World, effectively linking both timelines together.
Some of the relationships in the Harry Potter franchise might feel tertiary, but the majority seen in Fantastic Beasts 3 feel well-earned and significant. J.K Rowling, writer of both the Harry Potter novels and the Fantastic Beasts screenplays, is infamous for retconning and adding certain elements to her own world, which has rightfully earned her staunch criticism in a post-Deathly Hallows world. The Fantastic Beasts lore that Rowling has developed seems to be an effort to cement her own Wizarding Worldmythology by linking it to certain characters from the original Harry Potter film series.
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With the release of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, the Fantastic Beasts franchise now has roots to rival the original Harry Potter films, given that many of its previously established characters also link to earlier Fantastic Beasts entries. This helps establish a much more cohesive Wizarding World packed with new context that helps make the Harry Potter franchise even richer. This includes its ever-growing character base, some of
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