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I will do that meme eventually, I promise. I've just been really busy lately.

But I did go to see Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. It had a few problems that I’ve heard people talk about already, but it was an enjoyable movie overall and I liked it. There's one thing I need to get off my chest, though:

I’m a little baffled by the wizard-muggle (no-maj) relationship in the movie. It’s based around the idea that the American wizards are so determined to avoid something like Salem happening again that they’re completely unwilling to interact with humans at all.

That works, except (and I’m kicking this one over to the kind of people who reread the books all the time, because it’s been a while for me and maybe I’m just totally wrong about this) don’t I remember someone once telling Harry that wizards were almost never (or straight up never) killed in witch trials? That they just did spells to keep the fires from burning them and that one guy liked it so much he kept getting caught? Without the threat of a Salem-like event, the American paranoia makes very little sense. The vibe in the original Harry Potter series was that wizards lived separately from humans not because they were afraid of some X-men type shit if humans knew they were out there, but because they thought humans were kinda lame.

Again, I could be completely wrong about this and remembering some other book series, but there was nothing in Harry Potter up to this point that suggested that humans were (or could be) a threat to wizard-kind, and then this movie comes along and suggests that that wizards are genuinely worried that there could a war with humans???

Either humans are a threat to wizards or they aren’t, you know? And the original series doesn’t make a whole lot of sense if they are- and I’m way more attached to the original series than I am to this movie, fun as it was.

Anyway, I did like the movie. Maybe I'll do a proper reaction post later.

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