10/5/2023 0 Comments Secrets of dumbldoreIt’s certainly not the first time China’s censors have baffled audiences. Which is a great pity for those in China, because Secrets of Dumbledore is a half-decent yarn, which very nearly gets the Wizarding World movies back on track after the half-cocked Crimes of Grindelwald. Without that essential titbit, it is going to make no sense at all. ![]() It is all horrendously confusing, even if you do know that Dumbledore and Grindelwald were once lovers. ![]() Instead, the headmaster asks Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) and assorted wizards and witches (along with Muggle Jacob Kowalski, played by Dan Fogler) to do it for him – except none of them are able to know what the full plan is because Jacob’s ex, Queenie (a legilimens, or mind-reader), has gone over to the dark side and would expose them all to Grindelwald if they did. This is essentially the set-up of Secrets of Dumbledore, and (spoilers alert) it leads to a confusing situation in which Dumbledore is unable to stymie Grindelwald’s efforts to begin a war between the wizarding world and unwitting Muggles, even though he really, really wants to, due to a blood pact the two sorcerers made in their youth. “To an extent, do we say it excused Dumbledore a little more, because falling in love can blind us to an extent, but he met someone as brilliant as he was and, rather like Bellatrix, he was very drawn to this brilliant person and horribly, terribly let down.” “Dumbledore fell in love with Grindelwald, and that added to his horror when Grindelwald showed himself to be what he was,” Rowling told an audience during a US tour in 2007. These include a line in which Jude Law’s Dumbledore tells evil wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen) he once went along with his dastardly plans “because I was in love with you”, and another reference to “the summer Gellert and I fell in love”. For censors have reportedly made the decision to cut all gay references from the movie. The first two Fantastic Beasts movies made more than £100m at the Chinese box office, and new episode, Secrets of Dumbledore, is also expected to perform well there.īut when Chinese audiences sit down to find out what it is the heroic Hogwarts headmaster has been keeping to himself, they may find themselves wondering if they’ve been targeted with one of Potter’s famed Confundus charms. So much so that the nation’s Ministry of Education added the tales of Harry, Ron and Hermione’s schooldays to an official list of recommended reading for primary and secondary school students in 2017. ![]() Harry Potter, and JK Rowling’s wider Wizarding World, are incredibly popular in China.
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