Only Built 4 Potter Heads: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Potterheads rejoice! It has been 5 years since the last Harry Potter film graced the silver screen and 2016 beginning to look as refreshing as a cold glass of butter beer. In February, J.K.Rowling announced the production of the forthcoming screenplay Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts I & II, which is set 19 years after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ended. Later when casting was announced, we learned that the woman cast as Hermione (Noma Dumezweni) is Black and all the haters and the celebrators went crazy in the Twittersphere. If that weren’t enough, the mother of the Wizarding World drops another bomb by giving us the full trailer to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them!

I about lost my mind when I saw this. Here I am trying to justify thousands of dollars on a rushed passport and trip to London to see the play before the end of May and J.K. is all “chill to November and I got you, boo.” YES! Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them does not pick up where the Harry Potter books or films left off at all, but gives us deeper insight into magizoology (the study of magical creatures). The film follows the life of Newt Scamander, writer of the book from whom the film is based and takes place at the Magical Congress of the United States of America in 1926. If you were looking to get another glimpse at Harry, Hermione or Ron in this one, that seems to be highly unlikely since this is 70 years prior to the first Harry Potter book. If you were looking to see if J…