This has been such a dogbrained attempt at a spinoff franchise from the word go. I cannot wrap my head around why they named it Fantastic Beasts and centered it around the zookeeper guy in the first place when they clearly wanted to just have it be about fighting the previous evil wizard dude.

I have to assume it was some bizarre insistence on the WB suits' part that the new movies would have to be based on whatever else already-existing published Harry Potter material was around. (Fantastic Beasts and some other in-universe book about the main wizard sport were published as small lore pamphlets in the early 2000s, I remember because I had them growing up)

I don't know what happens in the third movie but it was absolutely hilarious how JK Rowling completely walked back the stuff she revealed made up after the fact about Dumbledore having been totally gay all along and his relationship with Grindelwald when she actually had the chance to go back to elaborate on said characters