Fantastic Beasts 3: Every Harry Potter Easter Egg, Reference & Call-Back
Warning: This piece contains spoilers for Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore.
When third Harry Potter spin-offFantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore finally released, it promised an expansion of JK Rowlings' Wizarding World packed full of Easter eggs and references. The 1930s setting may make cameos by Harry Potter's golden trio impossible, but its immediately obvious that the portrait of Dumbledore and Grindelwald's romance and explosive rift knows precisely what world it belongs to. And despite Fantastic Beasts 3's fixed reviews, it's absolutely an improvement on The Crimes of Grindelwald.
Whether the Secrets of Dumbledore will be enough to «save» the Fantastic Beasts movie series remains to be seen, but the sequel's biggest disappointment is that it sets up a better movie that would finally see the legendary duel between Dumbledore and Mads Mikkelsen's Gellert Grindelwald. Should Fantastic Beasts 3's box office convince the newly-merged Warner Bros Discovery, that future could be realized. Then again, the studio may see a better future for the Wizarding World in reinvention and a different story: a Marauders series, perhaps? Or even an Order Of The Phoenix series?
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Despite the close relationship between Harry Potter and the Fantastic Beasts movies, Secrets of Dumbledore's Easter eggs are fairly muted, almost as if Warner Bros is keen to underline this as an original story. Inevitably, because of the prominence of Jude Law's Albus Dumbledore in the story, that agenda is a little redundant, but there's something to be said for the restraint shown in Fantastic Beasts 3 and the attempt to once more justify its place under
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