Grindelwald’s Fantastic Beasts & Harry Potter Backstory: Origin, Power & Death
Gellert Grindelwald is the primary villain in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore and the franchise overall, and he's got a twisted history that is deeply tangled with that of Albus Dumbledore. The dark wizard was once the biggest threat to the Wizarding World and, in many ways, he set the stage for Lord Voldemort’s rise to power decades later.
Gellert Grindelwald has gone through many visible changes throughout the Fantastic Beasts films. In Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, he masqueraded as Percival Graves, an auror with the Ministry of Magic in the U.S. before revealing his true self. In Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, Johnny Depp’s Grindelwald was replaced by Mads Mikkelsen. The changes to the character’s visage haven’t stopped him from rising to power and stirring the Wizarding World into action, however.
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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is set to delve further into Grindelwald’s plans, his relationship with Dumbledore, and the power he holds over the Wizarding World. Here is a complete guide to Grindelwald’s backstory, from his origins all the way up to his death.
Gellert Grindelwald did not attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, like so many in the world of Harry Potter did. Rather, the villain of the Fantastic Beasts franchise went to Durmstrang Institute. First introduced in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Durmstrang was also a school for witches and wizards, located in the north of Europe. Grindelwald was attracted to the dark arts and in finding the Deathly Hallows, in particular, but he was ultimately expelled from Durmstrang at 16 when his twisted experiments and attacks on
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