![]() ![]() ![]() All of his talk about the wizards' right to global superiority and the necessary decimation of those that would stand against them is immediately reminiscent of how the most notorious leaders of the Axis powers in World War II managed to amass their loyal armies and proceed to destroy others they deemed inferior or threatening to that power. Grindelwald's words and propaganda tactics are obviously meant to parallel the rise of populism and nationalism in western Europe in the late 1930s pretty closely. In a foreword to his book, however, the character wrote, "It is true that I was the first person ever to capture Gellert Grindelwald" and hinted that there was much more to learn about his involvement in the war that was still classified information. Indeed, Harry Potter fans will know that Newt does indeed join forces with the Ministry of Magic's Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, but he's only been known to work in the Office for House-Elf Relocation and eventually the Beast Division. It's a touching moment, and an important one as well, as it's his creature that manages to steal the blood pact vial from Grindelwald in one of his many moments of self-aggrandizement. After the loss of Leta, and Queenie (Alison Sudol)'s inexplicable decision to align with Grindelwald, Newt tells Theseus that he is now ready to choose and fight for the side of the Ministry against this encroaching threat. Once he and Tina bear witness to what Grindelwald wants to do and is capable of doing, however, he realizes that this is a fight in which no one can remain neutral. We'll have to wait to see whether and how this loose thread ties up in later installments, if the LeStrange family's fate gets more of a mention in the future films. Of course, Harry Potter fans will know better than that, since Bellatrix LeStrange (who married into the family by wedding Rodolphus) is such a big part of the Boy Wizard's journey. It appears that when Leta sacrifices herself to allow all her new friends to escape Grindelwald's hall of blue flames, she may be the last of the LeStrange's pure blood lineage. LeStrange would suffer the loss of someone he really loves. Yusuf is on a mission to kill Corvus, so Mr. She does, however, have another living brother she didn't know about Yusuf Kama's mother also gave birth to Leta before being taken away by Leta's father. That boy was Credence, and he was given up for adoption after it was revealed that he didn't belong to the LeStranges. Leta reveals that her real brother Corvus was killed in the Titanic sinking after she swapped the baby out for a less colicky boy. ![]()
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