• read_freire [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Fantastic Beasts 2, “Trying to prevent the Holocaust is the worst thing you can do actually.”

    :wat:

    • fox [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      In Fantastic Beasts 2 (which contains very few fantastic beasts compared to the first) we learn that the extremely evil wizard Grindelwald is actually just trying to recruit people so he can stop WW2 from happening. This happens when he invades a big wizard meeting and rips a huge hit off his skull bong, then reveals omens in the fat clouds, including rolling tanks, atomic explosions, and people in striped pajamas marching onto trains.

      He exits the big wizard meeting by killing most of the wizards present after recruiting a few (including a character that is bona fide psychic and should be able to read his actual intents), then casts a spell to blow up Paris, which the good guys barely stop.

      This is the actual scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHSAZxPQrrk

      Rowling really fucked the beehive when she went and wrote that the wizards were pre-emptively aware of the Holocaust. Since the Holocaust happens in the HP canon, that means the wizards (who are individually basically demigods, never mind organized) just let it happen. It also opens the door to Nazi wizards and all that, which I'm sure she will write with the correct degree of sensitivity.