Harry Potter and the world he’d live in if Credence is really a Dumbledore

If we ignore all the improbable aspects of Credence Barebone’s story and say that yes, he is a Dumbledore, how is that going to end up at the Harry Potter story we know?

We know from the end of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald that even Aberforth seems to have lied to Harry Potter. Credence Barebone is, apparently, a Dumbledore but, if that’s the case, does the wizarding world just not keep a record of these things?

That’s one of the problems with prequels: You run the risk of ruining something that is already established. So, for instance, the McGonagall problem. We know McGonagall as the professor born in 1936. So how, in a movie set in 1927, has McGonagall been teaching at the school for quite some time? Magic, probably.

It’s honestly a cheap shot to get the audience excited. We hear a name we know and we instantly care more than we would have. But then we stop and think about what it means for the original series and how it doesn’t make any sense. That’s the problem with prequels and that’s the problem with making Credence a Dumbledore.

Suddenly, there is a lot of information in the Harry Potter series that seems to be changing all because of what Newt Scamander and Grindelwald are uncovering. So maybe we should start fixing what is changed in series before there are too many plotholes for us.

Are they going to fix it by the end of the Fantastic Beasts series or are we just to take it that people continue to lie to Harry Potter? We’ll have to wait to see what J.K Rowling and crew do next.

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is in theaters now.