" Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them " is definitely not just a fan film. Even popular movie fans who are not so familiar with the background story of Harry Potter can easily get closer to this fascinating "Magic World" through this movie. However, under the painstaking shaping of the author Rowling in the past twenty years, this "magical world" has long been connected into a flesh-and-blood whole. To a certain extent, only when we put the movie "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" into the overall "Magic World" can we maximize the pleasure of watching "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them"
The biggest feature of Rowling's storytelling was that she loved to leave foreshadowings in inconspicuous details, which were inadvertently connected to each other by readers, and eventually weaved into a dense web. Interestingly, because she did not conceive of writing the story of the "Fantastic Beasts" series when writing the seven main novels of "Harry Potter", this time, Rowling can no longer be the author with the "God's perspective" before. She seemed to have begun to act as her own "reader" and had a reverse thinking: Like a fan fiction author, Rowling collected interesting details from the seven main novels of "Harry Potter" and reinterpreted, diverged and extended these details to create a new "setting".
For example, although the setting of the supporting actress Queenie being able to read minds has been criticized by everyone as if it was copied from Marvel's X Professor next door, in fact, "mind reading" already exists in the main story of "Harry Potter". When Newt first met Queenie, he said she was a "legilimens." This strange, seemingly new term actually comes from the spell "Legilimency". The "Legilimency" spell played a crucial part in the fifth part of "Order of the Phoenix ". It was precisely because Harry did not learn "Occlumency" from Snape to resist the magic of the "Legilimency" curse, Voldemort took advantage of the situation and gave him false information, leading him into the trap of the Department of Mysteries, which ultimately resulted in Sirius's death. In "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", the "Legilimency" spell was further extended, and "mind readers" who were good at this spell became a type of wizard.
Interestingly, Dumbledore himself also said in Chapter 37 of the fifth volume that he is an excellent "mind reader" (an accomplished legilimens), although there are not many plots describing Dumbledore's "mind reading" in the main story. Since Dumbledore will appear in the later installments of the "Fantastic Beasts" series sooner or later, the setting of the "Mind-Reading Curse" may also become an important foreshadowing.
stole the show in this movie. The cute pets " sniff " who love "gold" like their lives were also recycled by Rowling from the seven main novels of "Harry Potter". In the fourth "Goblet of Fire ", "Niffler" appears for the first time in the "Care of Magical Creatures" class. It is another "magical creature" that Harry and his fourth-grade classmates need to learn after the Blast-Ended Skrewt. The teacher of the "Care of Magical Creatures" class, Hagrid, , had just been exposed as a hybrid giant by unscrupulous reporter , Rita Skeeter, . As a result, he was bombarded by various media and sued by parents. Deeply hit, Hagrid finally gave up on his usual favorite of ferocious magical animals (such as snails) and made a cute creature for the students to play with. This cute creature is "Niffler". He buried 100 Irish leprechaun gold coins underground and asked each student to claim a Niffler to dig for the gold coins.
