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est. 2000 A.D.
Phase of the Moon: Waxing Gibbous
5 GBP = 1 Galleon 
The Fantastic Beasts Saga Timeline
The dates for each of these events is derived from a close read of canon sources, including the scripts for Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. 1881 Albus Dumbledore is born c. 1883 Gellert Grindelwald is born c. 1891 Ariana Dumbledore is attacked by Muggle boys,… Read More
Digging for Gold in the CG Cast List
Now that the trailer has come out and presented us with wonderful nuggets of canon and plenty of questions to chew over, I think it’s time to dig a little further for canon treasure in the cast list of the film. The complete list is published on IMDb, so I took my copy of the Lestrange family tree from… Read More
Discussing The ‘Crimes of Grindelwald’ Reveal (MAJOR SPOILER WARNING)
UPDATE: I’ve now read the screenplay for the film and some interesting new details have been revealed. It undoes some of my theories in this post, but I’ve keep my original theories and put my updated ones below them in the “UPDATE” section. Anyway… MAJOR SPOILERS for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald below. Read More
Sorting Hat
Originally the pointed wizard’s hat of Godric Gryffindor, the Sorting Hat was bewitched by all four of the founders of Hogwarts with brains and some amount of personality. Its function is to determine which of the four Houses each new student will enter. It does so at the beginning of the start-of-term feast, when it is placed on a three-legged… Read More
Lists
Sometimes it’s just fun to explore. You can do that by following links all over the Lexicon — there are fact boxes with related entries, icons, tags, and all sorts of other connections on every page. You will quickly find yourself delightfully lost in all the richness of Rowling’s creation. But if you want to be a little bit more… Read More
A very exciting trip to the zoo for Dudley’s eleventh birthday
Harry accompanies Dudley, Piers Polkiss, Aunt Petunia, and Uncle Vernon to the zoo, where he unknowingly uses Parseltongue to speak with a boa constrictor. When Dudley notices and comes running, the glass of the snake’s enclosure mysteriously disappears and the snake escapes. Read More
Oliver Wood has an incendiary relationship with Slytherin’s Quidditch captain, Marcus Flint. Note that wood and flint are both materials that can be used to start fires. Read More
“The trouble is, the other side can do magic too, Prime Minister.”… Read More
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Why Did Jacob Kowalski take so long to Return to America?
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How is Professor McGonagall in Crimes of Grindelwald?
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Though it is a charming bit of plot candy to throw out to eager Potterphiles, the mention of Professor McGonagall in the latest film “Fantastic Beats: The Crimes of Grindelwald” has caused a tidal wave of reaction all out of proportion to the size of the scene. The question… Read More
Where's the new canon?
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You might be here on the Lexicon looking for information about the characters, things, creatures, events, etc. from “Crimes of Grindelwald.” If so, you might have to have to wait a week or so for everything to appear. We have a spreadsheet of 143 entries which need to be added… Read More
The Fantastic Beasts Saga Timeline
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The dates for each of these events is derived from a close read of canon sources, including the scripts for Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. 1881 Albus Dumbledore is born c. 1883 Gellert Grindelwald is born c. Read More
Discussing The 'Crimes of Grindelwald' Reveal (MAJOR SPOILER WARNING)
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UPDATE: I’ve now read the screenplay for the film and some interesting new details have been revealed. It undoes some of my theories in this post, but I’ve keep my original theories and put my updated ones below them in the “UPDATE” section. Anyway… MAJOR SPOILERS for… Read More