Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
I finally caught up on the FB movies. There's some cool magic, a few other neat things (like Newt at least knowing what his monsters really want a lot of the time, unlike Hagrid), and lots of things that make you go, "But... but... wait...that doesn't... what?" Also the Nagini retcon makes Neville killing her in DH a lot less triumphant and a lot
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It's a visually gorgeous movie, and there are some neat bits... which makes the rest all the more disappointing. And horrifying.
Like, they also have Dumbledore giving the boggart lesson (he's DADA teacher at the time, because why not I guess). Now, this made sense when it was just Lupin as an inexperienced teacher with no training who hadn't thought through the consequences. But here, we see exactly why it's such a terrible idea. First, we see some Mean Girls talking openly about how they can't wait to see Leta Lestrange's boggart so they can bully her about it. And then we see that her boggart is her baby brother drowning. The movie shows Dumbledore looking at it... and then it cuts away, and we never see how he actually dealt with a student being forced to reveal such a serious fear in front of her bullies. But how are we supposed to fill in the gaps here? Dumbledore considers this experience, and decides, "Yes, this is a good lesson which should be standard in DADA"? Or he puts it on hold for a while, but when Remus comes to him and says he heard about a great boggart lesson back in the day and he'd like to try it, Dumbledore goes, "Yeah, sure, sounds good! I see no problems with forcing a class including Neville Longbottom and Harry Potter to reveal their deepest fears in front of all their housemates!" WTF, Dumbledore.
The half-elf character shows up to tell a character how she took care of him as a baby, and then dies so he can feel upset. Just in case the scenario wasn't bad enough already.
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