History WMG / FantasticBeastsTheCrimesOfGrindelwald

TheReveal that the two are [[spoiler:unknowingly half-siblings]] seems like a built-in reason for Credence to [[InTheBlood go dark]], but that seems almost too predictable. Also, let's remember, Credence has been manipulated by a Dark wizard (this one, in fact, although he's not likely to realize that until some point later) before. He may be OlderAndWiser now, and probably wary of people that want to use him as a weapon. He may turn in a later movie if he does - or he could serve as the morally grey character that picks one side or the other at a crucial moment.

*** [[spoiler:Dumbledore mentions an aunt in who's a witch ''Beedle the Bard''. His mother was muggleborn and since there's examples of muggleborn characters with wizard siblings (like Colin and Dennis) and ones with muggle siblings (Lily and Petunia, Hermione's sister who got cut because she wasn't at Hogwarts), we'll be safe and say she was his dad's sister. The last names would be different but for whatever, she could have had a bad husband or used magic to have a baby on her own and given him her last name. His dad might have had other siblings we don't know about either. A cousin seems more likely to me if they're really related. ]]

** She brainwashed herself into being loyal to him and left a trigger that'd automatically undo the brainwashing after she passed the loyalty test.

* We haven't been repeatedly shown that magic can be used to easily circumvent severe physical damage and diseases - it's only ever stated that wizards and witches can heal most minor to modern physical injuries easier and they are less likely to succumb to certain non-magical illnesses and diseases. Why do certain sections of the fandom think 'Avada Kedavra' is the only way someone in the wizarding world can die? If the script says she died by childbirth and the wizards and witches in the story believe it, I think it's more believable that she would've died in childbirth, people. Come on. Such a death involved complications with the giving of life, and would render physical damage to the body severe enough that it would be effective in killing a witch as much as a non-magical woman.

* At this point, [[spoiler:we're fairly sure that Dumbledore's parents are either dead or in Azkaban, and Ariana is definitely dead, but we know nothinga botu what Aberforth got up to after Ariana's death; is it that implausible to assume that he went on a grieving drunken bender (or the wizarding equivalent) that resulted in him conceiving a child he still doesn't know about]]?
** As for why [[spoiler:Grindlewald claimed that Credence was Dumbledore's brother rather than identify him as Dumbledore's nephew... well, it gives Credence less reason to look for other relatives]].

[[WMG: If it isn't him [[spoiler:Credence's Pheonix will fight Fawkes]] ]]
It's been speculated above that the [[spoiler:Pheonix]] that Grindelwald gives Credence is [[spoiler:Fawkes]]. If [[RedHerring this is not true]] then ultimately [[spoiler:the real Fawkes]] will have to be introduced, possibly being found by Newt, and if so then it is possible during a great battle [[spoiler:Fawkes and Credence's Pheonix will have an airborne fight.]]

We know from ''Goblet of Fire'' that it's possible to sneak someone out of Azkaban on the sly, provided you have the means to make it appear like they'd died there. We also know that Percival Dumbledore ''only'' allowed himself to be convicted because revealing why he'd attacked the Muggle boys would've exposed Ariana's Obscurial status. Once Ariana was dead, Aberforth knew his father had no reason to stay jailed, and his estrangement from Albus motivated him to free his only surviving immediate family from unjust captivity. Like Crouch Sr. decades later, he brought in a ringer - a transfigured goat, probably; we know he practiced "inappropriate" magic on them, and turning a goat into the replica of a human sounds fairly "inappropriate" - to take Percival's place in Azkaban, and Polyjuice Potion so his father could walk back out with him. Percival went into hiding, met a woman, and (being nine years a widower) married her in a Muggle ceremony, thus producing Aurelius. As Aberforth still suspected Albus of harboring feelings for Grindelwald, Percival never told his oldest son that he was alive and free, or that Albus now had a baby half-brother.

We know from the ''Goblet of Fire'' that it's possible to sneak someone out of Azkaban on the sly, provided you have the means to make it appear like they'd died there. We also know that Percival Dumbledore ''only'' allowed himself to be convicted because revealing why he'd attacked the Muggle boys would've exposed Ariana's Obscurial status. Once Ariana was dead, Aberforth knew his father had no reason to stay jailed, and his estrangement from Albus motivated him to free his only surviving immediate family from unjust captivity. Like Crouch Sr. decades later, he brought in a ringer - a transfigured goat, probably; we know he practiced "inappropriate" magic on them, and turning a goat into the replica of a human sounds fairly "inappropriate" - to take Percival's place in Azkaban, and Polyjuice Potion so his father could walk back out with him. Percival went into hiding, met a woman, and (being nine years a widower) married her in a Muggle ceremony, thus producing Aurelius. As Aberforth still suspected Albus of harboring feelings for Grindelwald, Percival never told his oldest son that he was alive and free, or that Albus now had a baby half-brother.

women turning into snakes, fireworks coming out of wands and other such things are fairly normal in the wizarding world and hardly something wizards would pay to see. Instead the show is catering to muggle tourists who managed to slip through the masquerade illegally. Invitation only, muggles can only get in if another member invites them in. There is the possibility of a whole underground market, selling potions, oddities and other such things to muggles for a large fee.

WW1 was the most destructive war in history at the time. Grindelwald will use this to show that Muggles are so destructive that they need to be conquered or exteminated. He will also persuade wizards to join him by showing how Muggle technology is developing to a point where they can put up a fight against wizards (we briefly see a flashback to Muggle fighter planes in one trailer).

[[WMG:Why is Queenie crying?]]
One of the most disturbing scenes in the latest trailer is a brief scene of Queenie crying hysterically. She's normally such a cheerful person so something really terrible must happen either to Tina or Jacob. It's a ForegoneConclusion that Tina will get her HappilyEverAfter with Newt, but Jacob has no such PlotArmor. Let's keep our fingers crossed that nothing permanent happens to him.
* I would assume so, since there's a Quentin Kowalski who's a Chaser on the American Quidditch Team who played in the 2014 World Cup.