The Niffler’s Lament.

In which the Niffler writes a letter to J.K. Rowling. Dear Joanne Kathleen… no wait, Newt says I have to call you Miss Rolling, like the rolling I do on a Saturday night upon my collection of cuff-links that sparkle shinily in the light and that Newt polishes nicely as long as there are always…

Queenie is not going to join Grindelwald; are you all insane?

While I’ve seen some pretty bonkers theories in my eighteen years in the Harry Potter fandom, I have never encountered anything more astounding than the cries of ‘Queenie will join Grindelwald’ that have been floating around since the release of the ‘Queenie versus Grindelwald’ trailer. This cannot be! How can this be? How can people think this?…

Notes on the final ‘Fantastic Beasts 2’ trailer.

The final Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald trailer is here. Visually stunning, it pleasingly reinvents some awful clichés of cinematic dialogue, promises a subtle and maniacal performance from Johnny Depp and provides further, deeply-moving insight into the Dumbledore and Grindelwald dynamic. Unfortunately, it also leaves us with difficult questions that the film itself may not be able to answer, and that the Internet’s elephantine, erroneous accusations of racism may prevent us from asking in the first place.

Thoughts on the new ‘Fantastic Beasts’ trailer.

Dumbledore is gay, Grindelwald is messianic, Leta is a Lestrange trapped by her own lineage and the Niffler is back with all his usual gold-seeking badassery. Squeee! Let’s dive right in!