Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore Cheapens Snape's Perfect Line

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The Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore ending reuses Severus Snape’s iconic «always» line from Harry Potter, and feels cheap in the process. Fantastic Beasts 3 takes place long before Harry Potter, meaning Snape’s story won’t be told for several more decades in terms of the in-universe timeline. Still, the doesn’t stop the franchise from drawing parallels with his arc, which The Secrets of Dumbledore largely does so via Credence Barebone’s (Ezra Miller) story.

Even prior to Fantastic Beasts 3’s release, it seemed as though Credence was being positioned as the franchise’s answer to Snape. This was most apparent in terms of his new look, which gave him long black hair and dark robes that immediately called to mind a young Severus. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore takes the idea further though, with Credence starting the movie on the side of Gellert Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen), having a showdown with Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) in which he gets beat, and eventually moving over to the side of the heroes.

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All of that mirrors Snape’s own journey from Death Eater to Dumbledore’s man and double agent within Lord Voldemort’s camp, a role he played to perfection until his death. It’s said demise that Fantastic Beasts 3 evokes for a dying Credence. After confirming both that Credence is Aberforth Dumbledore’s (Richard Coyle) son and that he’s dying, at the end of the movie he asks his father “Did you ever think of me?” The reply from Aberforth feels all-too-familiar: “Always.” That’s one of the last lines from Snape in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (although it’s heard after his death), and has become etched into the franchise: it is