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Seeing me in this dress obviously means I'm gonna tell another story about the magical world of Harry Potter.

Harry Potter's die-hard fans must be really excited right now.

Because Fantastic Beasts: the Crimes of Grindewald is about to show.

I don't know whether you're excited or not, but I am.

So, I think the name Grindewald, despite being mentioned in the main story,

is present only in the last book.

I think the 7th one is not re-read by much, comparing to the 1st or the 2nd.

So, today, I'm gonna tell you the story of Grindelwald.

Who is he? How important is he? Why must there be a sequel named after him?

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[Grindelwald by Point of View]

Gellert Grindelwald was a very powerful dark wizard,

even before the era of the darkest wizard, Lord Voldemort.

This Grindelwald had caused a few global-scale catastrophic events.

His deeds shaped the wizard world as we know it,

and almost turned the world upside down, only if something hadn't happened first.

But first, let's hear about the story of his life.

From birth and through childhood. How did he grow to be this dark wizard?

Up until now, which means before the film comes out,

we don't know how he grew up. We only know that he might be a pure blood, or a half-blood,

meaning he grew up in a normal wizard society.

He attended a wizarding school called Durmstrang.

Remember when they had a triwizard tournament, there were three schools in the competition.

Durmstrang was one of them, with Viktor Krum as the representative.

If you ask what Durmstrang's reputation is,

you might remember that in the novels, Dreco Malfoy usually complained that,

"I don't wanna study in Hogwarts anymore! I wanna be in Durmstrang,

"because in Durmstrang, you don't have to study defense against the dark arts. You get to study dark arts."

That means Durmstrang was reputative about its dark arts course.

Grindelwald got to learn a lot about dark arts there,

and he showed to be an outstanding student in his class. One could say he's a genius.

Also, he was very interested in a thing called 'the Deathly Hallows.'

Many of you should remember the sign consisting triangle, circle and a straight line.

Let's just not get into details and say that it means Elder wand, resurrection stone and invisibility cloak.

It is believed that whoever possesses all three objects will be the Master of Death.

Grindelwald was so obsessed with this. He wanted to be the Master of Death.

He got so obsessed that he used the Deathly Hallows symbol as his personal symbol.

After studying in Durmstrang until he's 16,

even Durmstrang, a school that knew dark arts well, still felt that Grindelwald was too dark.

Because Grindelwald had done an unknown experiment on someone in the school,

he was expelled at the age of 16.

When he was expelled, he carved the Deathly Hallows symbol on the wall of the school, and it's been there since then.

It seems that now you can go and take a picture of this tourist attraction, just to be in trend.

Just kidding!

Expelling Grindelwald didn't help, though, because he was already smart.

He had more knowledge than what the school could ever give him.

And now there's no more rules to keep him down.

So, he turned to studying the dark arts by himself.

He started with going to Godric's Hollow.

Remember this place? It's Harry Potter's birthplace, where his parents lived.

They believed that it's the home of the first owner of the invisibility cloak.

After watching every Harry Potter film, we have come to know that this is correct.

The owner of that cloak was Harry's ancestor, who had been living there for a long time.

There, Grindelwald had a relative named Bathilda Bagshot.

She was the one who wrote the history book that Harry had to study.

Moreover, she was Harry's parents' neighbour.

You might remember her as the one possessed by Nagini in the 7th book.

She was Grindelwald's relative, and he went to live there with her.

As you might expect from someone who wrote the History book, her house consisted of so many books.

Grindelwald read all of them, gathering knowledge so that he could find the Deathly Hollows and develop his skills.

Godric's Hollow was also a residence of another important person,

that is, Albus Dumbledore. His house was located there.

Back then, Dumbledore was an orphan who lived with a younger brother (Aberforth) and a younger sister (Ariana).

Dumbledore's sister was bullied by muggles, causing her a mental breakdown.

She became unstable, always ready to burst out her magic power and cause chaos.

That's why their father took revenge on the muggles,

and that meant jail for the father.

So, their mother stayed and cared for the three siblings,

until one day the sister bursted, killing the mother.

So, Dumbledore became the head of the family, while his inside was traumatised.

When these two met, as two people who were both smarter than their own age,

they became friends right away, and hung out all day all night.

They had a lot in common

They were both interested in the Deathly Hallows.

Dumbledore thought that 'if I get to be the Master of Death, my life will be better,

'because I can use the resurrection stone to solve my family problem.'

While Grindelwald wanted to be the Master of Death so that he would be able to control Inferi,

or the walking dead of the wizard world. He wanted to make the army out of them.

Even though the two didn't discuss this issue, they had one common interest,

which Grindelwald persuaded Dumbledore to believed.

He asked 'why should the wizards and witches hide from muggles?

'We are smarter and more powerful. Why don't we govern those who are inferior to us?'

Dumbledore had to agree, because he himself also hated muggles for ruining his family.

That's how Dumbledore came up with the phrase 'For the Greater Good.'

He believed that they sometimes had to use force to make things better.

If one had to sacrifice for the greater good, they must do it.

And Grindelwald used that phrase as his personal slogan.

They continued to be good friends, until one day they agreed to travel the world together,

to seek for Elder wand, resurrection stone and invisibility cloak.

Could Grindelwald go? Of course, but he wanted Dumbledore to go with him.

Could Dumbledore go? No! Because he had to take care of his sister and brother.

If he took his sister with him, it'd be like carrying a time bomb.

He couldn't just leave his sister to his brother.

Being a teenager, Dumbledore obviously hated that he had to take this responsibility.

Eventually, they argued. Alberforth wouldn't let him go with Grendelwald,

telling him that it's a bad and villainous idea, to go and rule over muggles.

In that event, Grindelwald, being a dark arts lover he was, got mad and tried to curse Alberforth.

When Dumbledore saw that, he turned to fight Grindelwald instead.

So, the three were fighting, while an unstable girl sat there and watched.

Then, a curse defected and hit Dumbledore's sister, and she died!

She died, just like that.

Dumbledore promptly blamed it on Grindelwald, saying that he killed the sister.

That forced Grindelwald to flee from Britain.

After that, he went to gather his power and respect from places,

staying true to his ideology that he'd take over the world.

Along the way, he acquired the Elder wand by stealing it from a wandmaker called Mykew Gregorovitch.

He cursed the guy with the stunning spell and stole the wand from him.

This totally changed the perception about the Elder wand.

It was believed that this wand was the most powerful wand, and whoever owns it will have additional powers.

And this wand can only change owner by killing the old one.

However, the way Grindelwald took it made everyone realised that you don't have to kill,

you can just win it.

After acquiring the wand, Grindelwald wrecked chaos all over Europe and the US.

He barely escaped from the hands of the US Ministry of Magic.

This was where the first Fantastic Beasts film began, with Grindelwald disguised as a person in the ministry,

met Newt Scamander, and searched for Obscurus, a child with contained magic.

Grindelwald saw that it would be a pathway into showing the magic world to the muggles.

His main purpose was to reveal the magic world to everyone,

and that he'd rule over them.

I'll not go into details, so just skip over to the end, where Grindelwald was captured,

and then jailed in the US.

This is not a spoiler, since all the 7 books have already told you about all this.

It's just that they go into more details.

What we know from the books is that after the capture, Grindelwald managed to break out.

And he brought chaos all over the places for many years.

Eventually, people turned to Dumbledore, saying that he's the mightiest wizard,

and he might be the only chance to stop Grindelwald.

Dumbledore had always tried to avoid it, and if you want to know why,

it seems that Dumbledore later admitted it to Harry.

He said that, in the night when they fought, Grindelwald must know that whose curse killed Dumbledore's sister.

Dumblerdore was afraid that Grindelwald would expose that it was Dumbledore's own spell.

However, Dumbledore, being a transfiguration professor at Hogwarts at that time, had to take responsibility,

and so he went to fight Grindelwald.

They had a dual, and it's been said that the dual was the biggest one the wizard world has ever witnessed.

Whoever waiting to see the 2nd Fantastic Beasts must be expecting this particular scene.

After that event, Dumbledore won over Grindelwald, and locked him up in a prison.

Grindelwald lived there until the last day of his life,

which was recorded in the 7th book, where Lord Voldemort tried to find the Elder wand,

and he broke into the prison, because he heard that the last owner of Elder wand was Grindelwald.

So he went to find out where the wand was.

In the prison, Grindelwald teased Voldemort.

Voldemort thought that he'd encounter an old guy with no power, who's been in prison for over 40 years. He must be sad and pathetic.

But when he arrived, he found that Grindelwald wasn't afraid at all.

He was like, 'I have been waiting for you to come and kill me.'

'I know about you and know that you want the wand, but you will not have it!'

Grindelwald teased Voldemort until he lost his temper and killed the old man.

That ended the life of the greatest dark wizard of his time.

This is the story of Gellert Grindelwald as we know it from the Harry Potter novels.

Hope this makes you watch the 2nd Fantastic Beasts with a better understanding.

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Actually, there's a rumour that hasn't been answered in either of the books.

We know from J.K.Rowling that Dumbledore was gay.

And it seems that there were something more between Dumbledore and Grindelwald,

not just friends, but also a bit of a bromance.

I don't know whether Fantastic Beasts will acknowledge this tension or not.

You shippers can wait for the moments, while non-shippers are invited to watch how great these two were.

In Harry Potter, Dumbledore was already old, and he couldn't compare to Voldemort.

But this, they were of same age, must be real fun! I'm excited already!!

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