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In this article I want to talk you about the main discussed part of the Fantastic Beast – Crimes of Grindelwald film: 

This scene. Credence finally free of being who he truly is! There is only one problem… he’s a never existed before Dumbledore’s relatives. But I want to analyze with you, this fatidic Aurelius Dumbledore and calm some waters. 

Prefacing that we need to WAIT ALL THE FIVE FILMS before drawing conclusions, the revelation of Aurelius Dumbledore had thrown many dust on J.K. reputation, because we well know that in the books (the 7th to be accurate), it’s written that Albus Dumbledore only have two sibilings: Ariana and Aberforth. But there are some things that if you take a closer look at it, you may notice that it might be not as it seems.

1. Rowling has always been towards Harry Potter very accurate, she has always been precise, and never let escape details. So I found strange that she had made a HUGE mistake like this. Taking a closer look I noticed this:

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Do you notice something? Well they have chosen the same actor they had chosen in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows! Why do that? In the Deathly Hallows we only see Grindelwald for a few scene, for a total of 1 minute? We hear talk about him a lot! But we can’t really associate his name to a face. Except for the book Hermione’s reading in the Horcrux’s search: “The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore”, and for the photo in the house of Bathilda Bagshot. Not to talk about a young Dumbledore who can only be seen in the book, for a few seconds. 

So why being accurate with such a lowest detail, and then commit a HUGE mistake like “creating” a new Dumbledore’s sibiling

2. We all know Dumbledore as a character a little bit, what can I say… selfish? We’ve been noticing it since he used his friends and family as baits. And since Abeforth doesn’t describe him as such a lovely brother.

“My brother as sacrificed a lot of things on his way to the top. Including Ariana.”                                                           -Aberforth Dumbledore

So there is this scene where he’s talking to Newt and he tells him “If Credence has a younger brother or sister he could still be saved!” (From the Obscurior). So why if Dumbledore knew Credence was his brother, would have he wished his Obscurior to take one of his younger sibilings? Which moreove we surely know he doesn’t have anymore?

3. Other scene. In the final scene, we hear Grindelwald telling Credence “And while your brother is joyful for your sufference, and is trying to destroy you..” STOP. Wait what? Dumbledore’s not trying to destroy Credence. Is trying to help him. He doesn’t want to kill him, he want to save him from the Obscurior before it’s too late. I think this would be his personal revenge for what happened to Ariana.

4. Grindelwald already has lied once to Credence, in the first Fantastic Beasts remember? He told there was noting he could have done for him. He wasn’t strong enough. He was a Squib, and he would’ve never learn any kind of magic. Now he even give him a wand? What kind of mind change Grindelwald!

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I think here there are a few things. First: Grindelwald CANNOT fight Dumbledore because of the blood pact, so obviously he need an alternative way to destroy him. And he knows Dumbledore’s looking for Credence too, so I think he was just trying to get Credence on his side. And which better way than telling him that his own brother has known about him all this time and he had never told him anything. And what more now is trying to kill him. I think Grindelwald is trying to use Credence to fight Dumbledore to create a sort of weapon against him, and to reveal the magic world. He knows Credence can’t really control his powers, yes now he can channel his powers, but still can’t control them. I think that Queenie also is a part of the plan, to gain Credence trust and to catch up on Dumbledore. 

5. We still don’t know if Aurelius Dumbledore is a brother of Albus. It could just be a relative. In fact Grindelwald tells him: “I give you back your name Aurelius Dumbledore”. The only reference he makes to a “certain” brother, is the one “your brother is trying to kill you”. But as I said I think Grindelwald made that up, for what I explained in point 3 and 4.

The only thing I can’t really connect is why has credence a Phoenix? Is he really a Dumbledore? But a strong wizard as Grindelwald can’t afford a phoenix? Or maybe as I just said he’s a Dumbledore, but just a relative.

6. The predictions of Tycho Dodonus:

“A Son Cruelly Banished.”

Who Credence? Yeah it could be. But not banished from Kendra and Percival Dumbledore. They loved their children. Remember we are talking about a witch who died to protect her daughter, and a man who went and died in Azkaban just because three muggles attacked Ariana. Seriously? These two could have ever banished Credence? I don’t think so. 

“The Despair Of The Daughter.”

Ariana? Possibily. But also Leta wasn’t exactly happy last time I saw her.

“Return, Great Avenger. Wreb Wings From The Water.”

7. Remember the half-elf? Why was she killed?

There is this scene under this kind of bridge, where there are Grindelwald and the Auror: Gunnar Grimsson, the half-elf’s killer. And he’s reporting Gellert, that he’s done his job, even if he’s worried because the Minister wanted him to kill Credence, instead he choose to protect Credence as Grindelwald asks him.

And what a coincidence: Irma Dugard, was THE ONLY ONE who could have given Credence the answers. Even though now we know for sure that she was the nanny of Corvus Lestrange, and that Credence was changed when he was just a baby in the cradle.

8. Credence’s Aunt

The woman who was travelling with Credence on the boat, was his aunt. It is known that Percival Dumbledore had a sister, Honoria. It could be that she was travelling with her nephew, but it could also be that she was travelling with her son, this would made of Credence the cousin of Dumbledore. 

In the ending I firmly believe in Rowling’s power. She does know us better than anyone, and in my opinion she knew that a heat-shock like this would have caused such a odissey. I believe in the next film we’ll begin to see a little bit clearer.

The other main point of the discussions, was the change of side of Queenie, Jacob’s sweet half.
Of course we would have never thought that, she always seeemed so lovely!
Queenie is a witch, sister of Tina Goldenstein an Auror who works for M.A.C.U.S.A. , she’s in love with Jacob, but can’t marry him nor see him because in America still goes on the law that witches and muggles can’t stay together.
She’s crazy deeply in love with Jacob, but the pressure of not be able to marry him, and her sister working for the Ministry, brings her first to enchant Jacob, and bring him in London where the law is different, and where they could have a chance of getting married.
But when she sees he doesn’t want to, not because he doesn’t love her, but because he wants protect her she looses her mind.
She flees trying to go look after Tina, who’s in Paris. Being Queenie a Legilimens, and being overwhelmed by a lot of emotions she loose the control of her power and becomes knock out by all the thoughts of the Paris’s citiziens.
There she’s approached by one of the Grindelwald’s fellows: Vinda Rosier.

There she meets Grindelwald, and even if at first she scared of him, on a second thought she start believing that if witches and wizards can be free, she’ll be free to stay with Jacob.

On the other side, there’s only a reason why Grindelwald tried and accomplished to bring Queenie on his side: her power. Being Dumbledore a Legilimens himself, he needed one on his side to catch up.

There have been many disputes about Fantastic Beast – Crimes Of Grindelwald because of the many inconsistencies we can’t connect to our favourite books.
Thus I firmly belive in J.K. Rowling, and I seriously doubt she would have just commit some mistakes like those she has been accused of lately.
In these posts, we’ll examine together some of the scenes, and try to find answers, obviously well aware we must wait all five the films to understand completely.

The first scene I want to talk you about is Dumbledore looking in the mirror of Erised, many disputes were soared, because in the mirror you should see the deepest and purest dreams of your heart, instead Dumbledore seems to live a memory: he and Grindelwald stipulating the blood pact.

But if we go through the appereance we can see that Dumbledore is not just re-living that moment, but his wish is to come back to that moment.
As we well know, Rita Skeeter in “Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore”, will reveal his love for his friend Grindelwald, and his struggle when he’ll find out who he really was.
It’s clear that Dumbledore probably wants to come back to that moment for many reasons: he wishes he’d never stipulated that pact to be able to fight Grindewald. He wishes they’re still friends and close like in that moment, and mostly he wanted to come back to have the chance to save his sister Ariana, died a few years earlier in a duel against Grindelwald himself.