Fantastic Beasts on TF1: Pause for 1 minute and 40 seconds and watch this magazine carefully

Fantastic Beasts airs tonight on TF1. This first adventure of Norbert Scamander in the world of Harry Potter takes place 65 years before young Harry’s arrival at Hogwarts School and stars actor Eddie Redmayne. And the detail connects the film to the main character of the saga: Voldemort.

The film follows the rise of the evil Grindelwald to power, his criminal and destructive quest for domination, and his desire to achieve the purity of wizarding blood.

• Norbert Scamander has already appeared in Harry Potter, but you had to close your eyes!

But if you freeze frame at the very beginning of the movie, exactly 1 minute and 40 seconds in, you can see the hidden He-Whose-Name-Must-Not-Pronounce reference.

in 1 minute and 40 seconds

on the first page of the newspaper Ghost of New YorkThe title is “Are We Safe? Grindelwald Spreads Fear Around the World” and the date is Monday December 6, 1926. A month and year that definitely rings a bell for fans.

For as it is revealed in the 10th chapter of the book Harry Potter and the Half-Blood PrinceTom Ridley, born December 31, 1926. Therefore, we are 25 days before the birth of future Voldemort, when Fantastic Beasts begins. A reference to the Harry Potter saga, and which is no coincidence, because the evil wizard in the form of a snake is the one who kills Grindelwald in his Nurmengard prison.

Viewers will also witness a scene from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, during which Grindelwald admits to Voldemort that it is Albus Dumbledore holding the Elder Wand.

In the book, it’s the exact opposite, with a former totalitarian sorcerer repenting for his terrible actions and protecting the secret of the tomb. Remember that Dumbledore and Grindelwald were lovers before the latter was corrupted by his ambitions and use of dark magic. So it makes more sense that he would keep Dumbledore’s secret. Too bad for the movie!