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'Grindelwald is a major character and it's pretty big shoes to fill,' Heyman said. On Pottermore, Rowling tells us that Fawley 'did not take sufficiently seriously the threat presented to the world wizarding community by Gellert Grindelwald,' and lost his job in 1939 to Leonard Spencer Moon, who 'enjoyed a good working relationship with Winston Churchill.' Grindelwald is played by Johnny Depp - which a lot of fans are unhappy aboutĭavid Yates, who's directing the 'Fantastic Beasts' movies and who directed the final four 'Harry Potter' ones, told Jason Guerrasio at Business Insider that Depp is one of the only actors who can play Grindelwald. In the first movie, we also briefly meet Hector Fawley, the Minister for Magic from Britain, who recognizes Scamander. Grindelwald and I, the glorious young leaders of the revolution.'Īccording to Skeeter, who also wrote a not-entirely-accurate biography of Dumbledore shortly after his death, Dumbledore and Grindelwald planned to overturn the Statue of Secrecy, which keeps magical folk secret from non-magical folk, and establish a wizarding ruling class over Muggles. 'You cannot imagine how his ideas caught me, Harry, inflamed me,' Dumbledore's portrait said at the end of the book. His portrait told Harry in 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' that he was filled with anger and wanted to shake up the world.

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In his youth, Dumbledore wasn't entirely full of good intentions.

'To an extent, do we say it excused Dumbledore a little more because falling in love can blind us to an extent?' The two planned a revolution 'Dumbledore fell in love with Grindelwald, and that that added to his horror when Grindelwald showed himself to be what he was,' she said. Krum's grandfather, for his part, was killed by Grindelwald. Grindelwald carved the symbol into a wall at Durmstrang when he was there, and it inspired - or horrified - some later pupils. Krum attended Durmstrang, the Scandinavian magical school which Grindelwald attended. Viktor Krum, one of the wedding guests, instantly recognizes it as Grindelwald's sign and is upset. Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger learn about Grindelwald by accident.Īt Bill and Fleur's wedding in 'Deathly Hallows,' Xenophilius Lovegood wears a necklace with the Deathly Hallows symbol on it. (It turns out that Dumbledore obtained the wand after defeating Grindelwald in 1945.) But he finds out that Grindelwald doesn't have the wand anymore, and kills him. Voldemort finds Grindelwald in Nurmengard, a prison Grindelwald built during his rise to power and was locked in after his fall. As Voldemort searches for The Elder Wand, which he believes will make him invincible, he traces its path to Grindelwald. It's not until several books later in 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' that he plays a bigger role. Gellert Grindelwald in 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.' He's simply a name dropped on Albus Dumbledore's chocolate frog card in 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone': 'Dumbledore is particularly famous for his defeat of the Dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945.'

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Grindelwald's first mention in the 'Harry Potter' series is inconspicuous.

He was Albus Dumbledore's closest friend before turning into a Hitler-like figure who threw the magical world into turmoil in an attempt to dominate non-magical folk. In the 'Harry Potter' series, which takes place decades after 'Fantastic Beasts,' Grindelwald plays a big role and helped shape the course of world events in the 20th century. And while we only caught a glimpse of Grindelwald in the first 'Fantastic Beasts' movie, he's front and center in the new one, 'Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.' Grindelwald played a major part in the 'Harry Potter' series He appeared in the main 'Harry Potter' saga, which is set a few decades after the 'Fantastic Beasts' movies. And the villain of her story is Gellert Grindelwald.

Rowling set the stage for a new saga of good vs. With 2016's 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,' J.K. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.