Fantastic Beasts 3: J.K. Rowling May Have Already Spoiled Theseus’ Story
J.K. Rowling may have spoiled Theseus Scamander's (Callum Turner) story, as his scene with Newt (Eddie Redmayne) in the Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore trailer matches the Greek legend of Theseus all too well. The first two Fantastic Beasts movies connected J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World storyline in the 1920s with the Harry Potter timeline, mainly through Dumbledore (Jude Law), who is rallying everyone around him in his war against his friend-turned-foe Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen). The third Fantastic Beasts installment will see brothers Newt and Theseus working closely together for Dumbledore, in hope of ending Grindelwald's reign of terror.
In the Fantastic Beasts 3 trailer, Newt and Theseus are swiveling carefully through a maze-like cave full of blast-ended skrewts. Finally, they encounter a mother-beast, which can either be a giant blast-ended skrewt or a manticore, judging by its enormous scorpion tail. The movie's second trailer shows a prisoner falling to his death, then Newt commenting: «We're gonna need some help.» The maze, the beast, and the prisoners all match a legend from Greek mythology: Theseus and the Minotaur.
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J.K. Rowling has been known to choose meaningful names for her characters, from Remus Lupin (where the legendary Romulus and Remus were raised by a wolf and «lupus» means «wolf» in Latin) to Tom Felton's Draco Malfoy (where «mal foy» literally translates as «bad faith» from French). Theseus' name was certainly not chosen randomly either. The Greek legend states that Theseus offered to go into the Minotaur's deadly maze, defeat the beast, and free the Athenians stuck in the labyrinth. Theseus emerged
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