Dumbledore won't appear in 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them'
Warner Bros.
It's confirmed: Professor Albus Dumbledore won't appear in "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," the upcoming "Harry Potter" spinoff movie.
The Hogwarts headmaster was rumored to be in the movie. In the time the movie's set - 1926 New York - Dumbledore is 45 years old and a Transfiguration professor at Hogwarts. He's also known to be friendly with Newt Scamander, the main character of the movie. Scamander was expelled from Hogwarts after endangering someone else's life with a magical creature, and Dumbledore tried to defend him.
Dumbledore is also explicitly referred to in the voiceover for the movie's first full trailer. "What makes Albus Dumbledore so fond of you, Mr Scamander?" says someone speaking in the voiceover.
But though he's part of the backstory, Dumbledore won't show up in the movie itself, according to a long feature Jeff Jensen wrote in print issue of Entertainment Weekly's Fall Movie Preview.
It's too bad for Michael Gambon, the actor who played Dumbledore in most of the "Harry Potter" movies. He told Express he badly wants to be part of the movie: "I want to be in it, yes," he said. "They've got a Dumbledore. They'll have a young Dumbledore, won't they? But I could be his dad. They could flashback to me."
Given his age, Dumbledore is pretty much the only core character from the "Harry Potter" series that could have appeared in "Fantastic Beasts." But, as Jensen notes, the movie takes place in the year Voldemort is born, so that may become significant in the story.
"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" will have at least two sequels, so there's still a chance Dumbledore will be part of J.K. Rowling's new narrative.
- Singapore Airlines was ordered to pay a couple compensation for 'mental agony' after they complained their business-class seats didn't automatically recline
- Welcome to the white-collar recession
- A software engineer shares the résumé he's used since college that got him a $500,000 job at Meta — plus offers at TikTok and LinkedIn
- 7 things to do in Pahalgam in 2024
- Vivo V30e with 5,500mAh battery launched in India starting at ₹27,999
- Adani Ports' net profits jump 50% in 2023-24, registers threefold cargo growth
- 'Panchayat' season three to come out on Prime Video on May 28
- Top places to visit in Pahalgam in 2024
- Nothing Phone (2a) blue edition launched
- JNK India IPO allotment date
- JioCinema New Plans
- Realme Narzo 70 Launched
- Apple Let Loose event
- Elon Musk Apology
- RIL cash flows
- Charlie Munger
- Feedbank IPO allotment
- Tata IPO allotment
- Most generous retirement plans
- Broadcom lays off
- Cibil Score vs Cibil Report
- Birla and Bajaj in top Richest
- Nestle Sept 2023 report
- India Equity Market