Secrets Of Dumbledore Creates A Big Voldemort Plot Hole In Harry Potter
As Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore continues the franchise's trend of expanding the world of Harry Potter, it creates a big Voldemort plot hole in the process. The original Harry Potter series stayed fairly self-contained within the United Kingdom, as most of the stories occurred in or around Hogwarts. In contrast, the Fantastic Beasts prequels seek to incorporate the wider Wizarding World as Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law), and their allies travel the world — but it also raises some difficult questions for the Harry Potter movies.
The Secrets of Dumbledore explores Albus' past relationship with Gellert Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen) as the Dark Wizard grows in fame and followers. Gellert plans to rig the election for the next Supreme Mugwump to guarantee that he will be made the ruler of the entire Wizarding World — and almost succeeds despite the many wizards who come from all around the globe to vote against him. In this way, Fantastic Beasts 3 focuses more on Albus' attempts to thwart this plan than on fleshing out their governing system, as if the movie itself is uncomfortable with the far-reaching plot hole it is creating.
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The original Harry Potter series did not indicate that any of these international witches and wizards — who are so adamantly opposed to Gellert Grindelwald's power grab in The Secrets of Dumbledore — did anything at all during Lord Voldemort's rise to power. Neither during the First Wizarding War nor during Voldemort's rampage in England during the main Harry Potter years did the Dark Wizard face any apparent international opposition. Voldemort caused a great deal of death and
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