Stephen Colbert reacts to JK Rowling’s latest Dumbledore comments

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Chances are you’ve heard by now about the “intense” “love” relationship between Dumbledore and Grindelwald, described by J.K. Rowling in the DVD extras for Fantastic Beasts 2.

You may have also seen some of the backlash, and some of the many, many memes.

Well, now Stephen Colbert has piled in, too. During his Meanwhile… segment on The Late Show, Colbert reacted to Rowling’s remarks.

“That’s right — Dumbledore was a Gryffindor in the streets, a Slytherin in the sheets,” he jokes in the clip above (skip to 3:18).

Colbert went on the summarise Rowling’s quote about the “sexual dimension” to Dumbledore and Grindelwald’s relationship, before adding that it had fan’s pumped for the sequel: Harry Potter and the Cauldron of Too Much Information. Read more…

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J.K. Rowling says Dumbledore and Grindelwald had an ‘intense’ ‘love’ relationship

Poor Dumbledore. The world’s most powerful gay wizard still can’t find love on screen.
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James Corden tries to impress Eddie Redmayne with muggle magic, fails

James Corden, though a very funny and talented host, is just a muggle. But that’s not stopping him from trying to get licensed to do magic in the U.S. 
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The 17 most bizarre moments from ‘The Crimes of Grindelwald’

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This post contains many, many spoilers for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.

Now that some people have seen Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald it’s time to discuss some of the movie’s more shocking, upsetting, and truly bizarre moments. 

Because, wow. Even for Harry Potter, this movie got weird. Spoilers abound, so scroll down at one’s own risk. 

1. So the opening shot refers to MACUSA as the “American Ministry of Magic.”

As if they hadn’t spent a whole movie making people say MACUSA to explain why it is different from the British Ministry of Magic. Read more…

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‘Fantastic Beasts’ sequel is a series-low box office opening for the Harry Potter universe

J.K. Rowling’s big screen Wizarding World is hardly on death’s door, but Warner Bros. can’t be happy about Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’s opening weekend.
Sunday estimates point to a $62.2 million start for the newly released sequel, w…

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‘The Crimes of Grindelwald’ makes a major Harry Potter canon blunder

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Critics everywhere have slammed the latest Harry Potter spin-off, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, as there’s an absurd amount of confounding plot crammed into the 134-minute film. 

Yet, the film carries a problematic canonical oversight, too: Minerva McGonagall briefly appears as a young-adult wizarding instructor at Hogwarts in 1927. The trouble is, according to Harry Potter lore, she wouldn’t have even been born at that point.

Fantastic Beasts 2 takes place in 1927 and features a 20-something Minerva McGonagall teaching at Hogwarts. BUT according to Pottermore, Professor McGonagall was born on October 4, 1935 making her a -8 year old Professor. Impressive.

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Did you catch the one ‘Harry Potter’ actor who shows up in ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’?

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This article contains spoilers for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Read at your own risk!

The 1920s setting of the Fantastic Beasts franchise is a great opportunity for younger versions of beloved Harry Potter characters to appear in their own stories. Most of them, like Jude Law as Albus Dumbledore, are only shown portrayed by new actors — except one. 

The exception is Jamie Campbell Bower, who crosses over from his cameo role as a young Gellert Grindelwald in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1. Grindelwald only appeared as a moving photograph and as a menacing figure in a window in Deathly Hallows, but Fantastic Beasts brings him back in a flashback reflection in the Mirror or Erised.  Read more…

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This official ‘Fantastic Beasts 2’ artwork is spilling with ‘Harry Potter’ easter eggs

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Without spoiling anything, it’s safe to say that Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald brings the new franchise in the wizarding world of J.K. Rowling even closer to the Harry Potter universe. 

Characters we know and love are being introduced into Fantastic Beasts and fans of the original Harry Potter universe are pining for nuggets of information that tie Fantastic Beasts to the original canon they know and love.

If it’s Potter easter eggs you’re looking for, you might want to pay extra attention to the artwork — the newspapers; the posters; the adverts – in the The Crimes of Grindelwald. They’re full of easter eggs for the attentive moviegoers. Read more…

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Everything Harry Potter fans need to remember about ‘Fantastic Beasts’ before ‘The Crimes of Grindelwald’

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was released two years ago, which in 2018 time may as well have been a lifetime ago. So much has happened since then, it’d be understandable if you mostly forgot what happened in that one.
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Ezra Miller’s ‘Fantastic Beasts 2’ red carpet outfit turned a whole lot of heads

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If ever there’s a time to bust out your most memorable outfit, it’s the red carpet. A nice, big world premiere, preferably.

On Thursday, on the red carpet for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Ezra Miller did exactly that.

Behold:

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Closer!

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CLOSER!

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There were a lot of reactions, but one thread kept recurring.

I mean, look at Ezra Miller just casually achieving my dreams of becoming a human duvet pic.twitter.com/hkUv9BznwL

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‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’ is all out of magic

There was a time when each new entry in the Harry Potter canon was a treat to be savored, each new detail a gift to be admired, each new character a friend to be loved. 
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Eddie Redmayne needed an actual ‘wand specialist’ to nail his swish and flick

Eddie Redmayne clearly didn’t do as much Harry Potter role-play as we did when we were growing up. 
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