Fantastic Beasts May Break Harry Potter Canon If Credence Doesn't Die
The Fantastic Beasts franchise has given Credence Barebone (Ezra Miller) one of the most intriguing character arcs of the series, but it will seriously break Harry Potter canon if he doesn’t die before the series is over. Based on what the Harry Potter films affirm about the wizarding world, there is no way Credence, whose real name is revealed to be Aurelius Dumbledore in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, can be a part of it. His survival would contradict way too many elements of future stories and lead moviegoers to question not only the continuity but the integrity of the Harry Potter franchise’s enormous magical universe.
Credence is presented in the Fantastic Beasts films as a young, delicate man who discovers he’s an obscurial (someone with a dark parasitic magical force known as an obscurus living inside them) and brother of one of Hogwarts’ most legendary professors, Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law). Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald ends with Credence abandoning his only friend and companion, the maledictus Nagini (Claudia Kim), to join the malevolent forces of Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp). Its sequel, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, portrays an angry Credence battling against his brother Albus. The end of Credence’s story is not certain yet, but the need for it to end before the Harry Potter franchise starts is a must.
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Throughout most of the Harry Potter movies and books, little is revealed about Dumbledore’s past. Not until Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 are the details about Dumbledore’s backstory described. Audiences find out about Dumbledore’s brother Aberforth and sister Ariana,
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