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** Another reason for the death potion could be to help maintain the masquerade. Unlike other magical forms of death, the potion in the execution chamber appears to vaporize and destroy what is submerged in it, which saves MACUSA from figuring out how they're going to dispose of a freshly-deceased corpse when they're in the middle of one of the most populous cities on the planet. It's not like they can rely on executive support from "The Other President" to falsify the necessary paperwork like the British Ministry can with the Prime Minister.
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** Pretty sure this is the second or third time someone raised this question, but I'll take another stab at it. In short, there's no evidence to suggest that Muggle-borns are treated differently than purebloods in America - there's no need for MACUSA to resort to kidnapping and Obliviation when most families would probably be fine with simply not revealing their child's magical abilities to others. (Just like Harry and Hermione's families are over in Britain.) Distrust of No-Majs in America has less to do with racism and discrimination and more to do with a desire to keep wizardkind safe from discovery and persecution. If anything, wizards and witches would more likely be the victims of bullying, rather than the ones instigating it.
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* The Second Salemers believe that witches exist and live among Muggles. I assume from Mary Lou's comments about Credence's mother being "a wicked, unnatural woman" that Mary Lou knows she was a witch and that Credence is a wizard. So does she taken in Credence and other children to abuse them in the hope of getting rid of their magic, like Uncle Vernon wanted to do? What's her motivation?
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* Ilvermorny The Second Salemers believe that witches exist and live among Muggles. I assume from Mary Lou's comments about Credence's mother being "a wicked, unnatural woman" that Mary Lou knows she was a witch and that Credence is a wizard. So does she taken in Credence and other children to abuse them in the hope of getting rid of their magic, like Uncle Vernon wanted to do? What's her motivation?
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* The second Fantastic Beasts movie reveals that the Lestrange half-elf servant was the one to put baby Credance for adoption in America. Is she the one Mary Lou refears as "a wicked, unnatural woman"? Did they meet in person? Or she just make that up out of the blue to further abuse Credence?
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* So considering the rampant magic racism in 1920's US, did muggleborns even get accepted in Ilvermorny? If they didn't, the wizarding population in the states must have been slowly declining (which would explain why there's only one school in the whole country). If they did accept muggleborns in their society, the poor kids must have been bullied even worse than the ones at Hogwarts. And what about their families? Were they allowed to live with them, or visit them? Must they sever all ties? Or worst of all, did the parents get obliviated at the second one of their children displays any magical habilities?
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* So considering the rampant magic racism in 1920's US, did muggleborns even get accepted in Ilvermorny? If they didn't, the wizarding population in the states must have been slowly declining (which would explain why there's only one school in the whole country). If they did accept muggleborns in their society, the poor kids must have been bullied even worse than the ones at Hogwarts. And what about their families? Were they allowed to live with them, or visit them? Must they sever all ties? Or worst of all, did the parents get obliviated at the second one of their children displays any magical habilities?
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* I might've missed something, but was there an actual reason why Jacob had to be Obliviated in the end? When Madame Picquery agrees to let them say goodbye, it looks like all the Aurors leave with her. And there wasn't anyone besides Newt, Tina, Queenie and Jacob at the top of the subway steps. What was stopping them from Apparating Jacob somewhere else or waiting out the storm in the subway or something?
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* I might've missed something, but was there an actual reason why Jacob had to be Obliviated in the end? When Madame Picquery agrees to let them say goodbye, it looks like all the Aurors leave with her. And there wasn't anyone besides Newt, Tina, Queenie and Jacob at the top of the subway steps. What was stopping them from Apparating Jacob somewhere else or waiting out the storm in the subway or something?
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* According to the book, the creature known as the Hidebehind was the result of a trafficked Demiguise escaping confinement and then mating with a ghoul during its voyage to America. But it seems that pairing only resulted in one offspring - so how did the species survive long enough to become a species? The Demiguise is native to the Far East, and ghouls typically take up residence in the attics of Muggle homes. With whom did that first Hidebehind manage to procreate with?
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** And even if the bank saw fit to get the authorities involved, it's not like they would find anything seedy, let alone incriminating. On the of chance that a nearby museum or bank were to report a recent theft of silver to tie the collateral to, they would then have to answer the question of how Jacob pulled off such a theft and why he would go to the trouble of having said silver melted down and formed into eggshells, of all things.
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*** But the Obscurus is more like a magical illness, one that has killed a number of magical children in recent times (as opposed to vikings and arrows, which have only historic connotations). It's more like calling a publisher "Cancer Books" or "Plague Books".
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** ''Crimes of Grindelwald'' may answer this when it comes out, but I'd say it's entirely possible that either Dumbledore was subbing for the DADA professor for whatever reason (as Snape would later do for Lupin in PoA) or that ''riddikulus'', being a spell to make a hostile creature change its shape, indeed straddles the line between Defense and Transfiguration.
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** Mary Lou tells Credence before her death that his real mother was a wicked, unnatural person, and I didn't get the impression that this was the first time she's told him that. It would seem that Credence knew there was something inside him that he tried to suppress, but he maybe didn't know that it was magic - and he was Obliviated to wipe his memories of Tina's attack on Mary Lou, not of any events before that.
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* From what I understand, a witch or wizard needs to know they have magic and suppress their magic for some time to become an Obscurial. As far as I could tell from the film, we never figure out when Credence learned he is magical (it sounded like Graves was the one to tell him, and recently at that, unless Graves had been involved in his life for years instead of months) and Mary Lou didn't seem inclined to tell Credence what he was, if she knew. Or did she know, told him what he was, attempted to beat it out of him, like Uncle Vernon wanted, but he forgot when he was Obliviated and then his Obscurial exploded?
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* From what I understand, a witch or wizard needs to know they have magic and suppress their magic for some time to become an Obscurial. As far as I could tell from the film, we never figure out when Credence learned he is magical (it sounded like Graves was the one to tell him, and recently at that, unless Graves had been involved in his life for years instead of months) and Mary Lou didn't seem inclined to tell Credence what he was, if she knew. Or did she know, told him what he was, attempted to beat it out of him, like Uncle Vernon wanted, but he forgot when he was Obliviated and then his Obscurial exploded?
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** Maybe what she meant (or should've gone with instead) was that magical creatures (like the Niffler) cannot be summoned, but normal animals (Neville's toad, and Jacob Kowalski) can be summoned. Immunity to magic is something many magical creatures have already, so it makes sense.
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** Maybe what she meant (or should've gone with instead) was that magical creatures (like the Niffler) cannot be summoned, but normal animals (Neville's toad, and Jacob Kowalski) can be summoned. Immunity to magic is something many magical creatures have already, so it makes sense.
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*** When the banker guy inquires about his job at the canning factory, Jacob replies, "That's the best I could do. I only got back in '24."
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** America had over 8 thousand soldiers occupying Germany's Rhineland until 1923 as part of the armistice arrangements. Other Allied forces provided security in that region until 1930. It is very possible that Jacob was part of the American occupying forces, or served as part of a liaison detachment until then.
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** He said he'd fought in the war, and that he had come home afterwards but I don't think he ever said he'd only just got back. The intervening time could have been spent perfecting his trade and coming up with his plan to open a bakery and trying to scrape funds together.
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* Jacob says he came home from the war in Europe in 1924...If he's referring to World War I (and if I sound insensitive, I apologize), what took him so long to come back afterwards when the war was over in 1918? Has it been known to take six years for soldiers to return home?
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* Jacob says he came home from the war in Europe in 1924...If he's referring to World War I (and if I sound insensitive, I apologize), what took him so long to come back afterwards when the war was over in 1918? Has it been known to take six years for soldiers to return home?
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* How does Newt know the American laws concerning relationships with Muggles, but not that they're called by a different name?
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* How does Newt know the American laws concerning relationships with Muggles, but not that they're called by a different name?
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* Wasn't Dumbledore the Transfiguration professor at Hogwarts before he became headmaster? If so, why is he teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts in the second trailer for ''The Crimes of Grindelwald''? Did he have a stint as a DADA professor before teaching Transfiguration, or is Riddikulus a spell that blurs the lines between the two and is sometimes taught in one class or the other?
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* Wasn't Dumbledore the Transfiguration professor at Hogwarts before he became headmaster? If so, why is he teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts in the second trailer for ''The Crimes of Grindelwald''? Did he have a stint as a DADA professor before teaching Transfiguration, or is Riddikulus a spell that blurs the lines between the two and is sometimes taught in one class or the other?
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** It's worth keeping in mind that while the Dursleys were abusive, they were paragons of parenting compared to Mrs Barebone.
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** Most likely, it's Rowling playing along with how RealLife American and British slang terms tend to be very, very different.
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** [[spoiler]] Adding to my original comment about Grindelwald not thinking that he was defeated, many have commented that Grindelwald used wandless magic for the most part because of the likely chance that Graves's wand did not switch his allegience to him. Tina confiscated Graves's wand from Grindelwald. Do we know the rules of what happens when a witch or wizard is disarmed when not using their personal wands? Would the Elder Wand consider that as a defeat? Probably not. It's also very likely that Grindelwald has the Elder Wand hidden somewhere on his person, so he's not truly disarmed/defeated and likely used it to break out of prison/custody. Even if he didn't have the Elder Wand in person, there's still a chance that he kept his old wand and likewise used that to escape.
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** [[spoiler]] [[spoiler:]] Adding to my original comment about Grindelwald not thinking that he was defeated, many have commented that Grindelwald used wandless magic for the most part because of the likely chance that Graves's wand did not switch his allegience allegiance to him. Tina confiscated Graves's wand from Grindelwald. Do we know the rules of what happens when a witch or wizard is disarmed when not using their personal wands? Would the Elder Wand consider that as a defeat? Probably not. It's also very likely that Grindelwald has the Elder Wand hidden somewhere on his person, so he's not truly disarmed/defeated and likely used it to break out of prison/custody. Even if he didn't have the Elder Wand in person, there's still a chance that he kept his old wand and likewise used that to escape.
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** Plenty of U.S. state flags have horses on them, even though horses were imported to North America from Europe.
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** Chopstick, piece of dowel, drumstick for a toy xylophone, who knows? It's only "a toy" because she uses it as a plaything.
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** There are RealLife publishing firms with names like Serpent's Tail, Viking, and Arrow. Being named after unpopular reptiles, violent sea-raiders, or lethal weapons hasn't put them out of business.
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** He could always claim they were an inheritance, or antiques he'd found in the attic or something. They're a bank, not the police; even if he doesn't have proof of provenance for the silver eggshells, they're clearly valuable and if he stole them it's not the bank's job to investigate that.
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** He could always claim they were an inheritance, or antiques he'd found in the attic or something. They're a bank, not the police; even if he doesn't have proof of provenance for [[spoiler: the silver eggshells, eggshells]], they're clearly valuable and if he stole them it's not the bank's job to investigate that.
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** Jacob could always just show them the note that was left inside the case - there's no evidence of any wrongdoing on his part, so the bank has no reason not to accept it. As for your second question, I don''t think they'd care. If Jacob wants to open a bakery and he has collateral to cover the bank, they have neither the right nor any reason to question him on his choices.
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** Jacob could always just show them the note that was left inside the case - there's no evidence of any wrongdoing on his part, so the bank has no reason not to accept it. As for your second question, I don''t don't think they'd care. If Jacob wants to open a bakery and he has collateral to cover the bank, they have neither the right nor any reason to question him on his choices.choices.
** He could always claim they were an inheritance, or antiques he'd found in the attic or something. They're a bank, not the police; even if he doesn't have proof of provenance for the silver eggshells, they're clearly valuable and if he stole them it's not the bank's job to investigate that.
** He could always claim they were an inheritance, or antiques he'd found in the attic or something. They're a bank, not the police; even if he doesn't have proof of provenance for the silver eggshells, they're clearly valuable and if he stole them it's not the bank's job to investigate that.
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** So why doesn't he simply carry his magical suitcase inside another (non-magical) suitcase, so it can't open?
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** Also, it's since been revealed that Leta Lestrange was the one responsible for said endangerment of student life, and Newt chose to take the fall for her. (Much like Hagrid did for Tom, albeit less willingly.) It could be that somewhere down the line, the truth is brought to light and thus restores Newt's reputation.
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** Newt apparently has a rather unexciting job at the Ministry and is on some kind of leave while conducting research for his book. It had also been mentioned in the original ''Harry Potter'' series that in past times (from the perspective of Harry's generation) it was actually quite common for wizards and witches that were out of school to go on extended trips to see the world. This was an issue for Dumbledore as he could not do so because his father's imprisonment left him home caring for his family. Grindelwald nearly convinced him to go anyway, which led to the big fight with Aberforth.
