Professor McGonagall breaks the gun of Harry Potter

The casting of Fiona Glascott in the role of young professor McGonagall Fantastic Beasts: The Grindelwald Crimes broke the gun of Harry Potter. According to the Harry Potter tradition, McGonagall should not have been born in 1927, when Fantastic Beasts 2 is set.

the Fantastic beasts The movies are programmed decades before Harry Potter shines even in his mother's eyes, let alone before entering Hogwarts for the first time. At the same time, however, they seem more and more interested in the stories of major characters in Harry Potter books and movies. Fantastic Beasts 2 Jude Law embodies Dumbledore, a number of characters generally associated with Death Eaters, Alchemist Nicholas Flamel and even Nagini, the accursed woman destined to become Voldemort's serpent. Unfortunately, the truth is that more J.K. Rowling is trying to connect the Fantastic beasts to Harry, there is a greater risk of deterioration – or, worse, of rupture – of continuity.

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This moment seems to have finally arrived. Latest reports suggest that Fiona Glascott will play Professor McGonagall in Fantastic Beasts: The Grindelwald Crimes. Given that the actress is in her thirties, it is safe to assume that McGonagall will work at Hogwarts alongside Albus Dumbledore. This causes a huge continuity problem for the franchise. Fantastic Beasts 2 takes place in 1927 – eight years before McGonagall's birth.

The Harry Potter books themselves only offered hints of Minerva McGonagall's past. The most interesting was Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix; In one scene, McGonagall was asked how long she had taught at Hogwarts. "Thirty nine years"Answered McGonagall Since the Harry Potter stories unfold in the 90s, it means that she started teaching at Hogwarts in 1956.

But J.K. Rowling has spent the last few years developing the Harry Potter universe on her Pottermore website. McGonagall made an important entry revealing her Scottish "half-breed" heritage, an early rift when she fell in love with a muggle and even how she began her teaching career. according to PottermoreMcGonagall graduated from Hogwarts with the highest grades and briefly worked for the Department of Magic. Disgusted by the anti-Muggle prejudice that she had met at the ministry, she quickly decided that she was sick of it after two years and applied for a teaching position at Hogwarts. Enter Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and the Pottermore website, then, it is possible to understand that McGonagall was born in 1935. She should not even be alive in 1927, let alone in her thirties.

The story of McGonagall on the Pottermore The site is remarkably detailed, suggesting that Rowling never really expected to revisit the character. And that's basically the problem of the whole Fantastic beasts series of films; these are movies that Rowling did not expect to write. If she had been dealing with entirely original characters, she would have avoided that kind of contradiction, but whenever she decides to use a familiar name, she is forced to take a character back into the picture. story of Newt Scamander, Gellert Grindelwald, and Albus Dumbledore. Sometimes, it inevitably means that their story changes. In the case of Professor McGonagall, this seems to mean that she is considerably older than originally planned by Rowling.

No one knows what McGonagall's role will be Fantastic Beasts: The Grindelwald Crimes. All this is written assuming she is a teacher at Hogwarts; it's a reasonable assumption, but there's only one alternative. It's about within the bounds of the possible that at some point in the film, Albus Dumbledore will experience his personal future – and perhaps he will see Minerva McGonagall, a woman who has not yet been born, by his side. One could imagine that happening, especially given the dialogue in the Fantastic Beasts 2 Trailers has already suggested that Dumbledore's old flame, Grindelwald, had visions of the future; but that seems rather unlikely. There is no evidence that Dumbledore has ever been a seer, a subject that would surely have been addressed at one point in the Harry Potter series. So, unfortunately, it is much more likely that J.K. Rowling has made a serious mistake of continuity.

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