#yusuf kama | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

dumbledore-and-grindelwald · 2 years

Photo

I’m back with one more scene I find very underrated. I have been thinking of this scene as ‘the double nod’ scene. It’s quite interesting to look at what may be happening here, and it’s easy to miss.

I think that this part of Dumbledore’s plan actually RELIED on Queenie. He relied in his belief that the woman Jacob loved and Tina’s sister had followed Grindelwald. In the 2nd gif, when Queenie is fixated on Yusuf he gives her the slightest nod. He KNOWS what she sees in his head and that her potentially not being committed is the only chance he has. All he has is what Queenie sees in his head and his fate is at her hands. And of course Albus’ gumble pays off because Queenie confirms Yusuf’s story. It actually makes even more sense that Yusuf later, during the dinner, pulls Queenie away when she is fixated on Jacob and seems ready to help him, which would bring her trouble with Grindelwald. He pays her in kind for not exposing him.

That’s when gellert makes the call. We have the second nod: Gellert finally sense Credence/Aurelius off to kill Albus. Despite preparing, he hadn’t tried to hurt Albus thus far. Albus’ moves had been passive. He sent Newt to New York, but not to target Albus. He sent him to Paris, but it was to get Credence; not to attack. This is the first time that Gellert sends someone at his door to infiltrate. It’s not an attack in the strict sense, but it’s clear that Albus is finally on the offensive, and Gellert cannot let this stand.

When asked, Queenie gives enough information to make Yusuf’s story convincing. She creates a character: A man who carries the impact of Gellert’s actions, but who shares his ideals to the extent that he genuinely tries to give him a chance.

I’m pretty sure that the loss of Yusuf’s memory of Leta was not something that had been predicted. It’s clear that Yusuf is terrified despite the brave face he puts on. In an interview, William Nadylam, who plays Yusuf, has said that Yusuf remembers. That’s very interesting to me. In the Movie Magic book, it’s mentioned that Yusuf carries a pendant with a photo of Leta. One possibility is that he does not have distinct memories but he DOES know he had a sister and he still feels that something has been taken from him, so he knows that he can’t trust Gellert. This is in line with Rowling focusing a lot on the connection between photos, paint, memory and feelings of love. Another possibility is that the method matters. Gellert does not obliviate Yusuf. Not like Hermione did with her parents. Not with the kind of memory spells that Lockhart used on his victims. He extracts the memory. This is kind of strange. When we’ve seen memory-extraction in this manner, the memory is shared with others but it’s not erased from the mind of the one providing the memory. This would be either a break of the magic-system, or it would require inexperience with how memory magic works on Gellert’s part, which seems a little strange for a wizard of his caliber. Even if we assume that the memory was indeed extracted, Gellert is overestimating his power here. He is using a very simple spell because Yusuf consented to have the memory taken and Queenie’s reassurance of Yusuf’s intentions is comforting. But Yusuf can somewhat control or reshape the memories surfacing (as we know from the fact that Slughorn manipulated the memory he gave Albus). So ultimately aspects of his connection to Leta would remain in his mind either way.

Finally, I think it’s interesting that Yusuf is one of the two parties of the plan whose part the others know nothing about. In Bunty’s case the can know nothing because she carries the backbone of the mission and Albus wouldn’t want anything to spill. In Yusuf’s case, it would be incovenient for the rest to be fully aware from the start of where he was going. It didn’t matter if they learned later, but it wouldn’t do for example, for Jacob to know that Yusuf was assigned to be where Queenie was. Chances are he would want to be there too and there would be unnecessary complications.

#fantastic beasts #the secrets of dumbledore #gellert grindelwald #yusuf kama #Queenie Goldstein

146 notes · View notes

sofoulandfairaday · 2 years

Text

Fantastic Beasts - The Secrets of Dumbledore semi-rant

I saw this movie yesterday and I have to say I'm very disappointed. It wasn't as bad as Crimes of Grindelwald, but it wasn't good either. Already the fact that I saw it only yesterday and not in theatres should be a bad sign. There was a time when I would have gone to the ends of the earth to see a movie set in the Harry Potter universe at the cinema. This time, I tried, found out they weren't showing it that night and said "oh, alright then, I'll do something else".

Also, I'm already forgetting half of what happened. It wasn't boring, but it wasn't gripping either. I paused it twice (TWICE! A HP movie!) to do other stuff. I'm reblogging and reposting the most visually pleasing parts of the film (which is a marvel to see, but that's probably its best quality), and that's it. Usually, I'm obsessed with the movies I've just watched, I look up theories, reviews, posts, reblogs, etc. For months if they're set in the harry potter universe.

There will be spoilers ahead.

Let's start with the good things:

the beasts. they are so beautiful and well done. cgi is mostly good, the way newt interacts with the animals he cares for is, as always, one of the best parts of the movie.

jacob's lines, which are always a delight

grindelwald - probably the best thing about the whole movie. i liked johnny depp, but i loved mads mikkelsen in the role. he and jude law have incredible chemistry.

on this note, grindeldore. oh, it was so good, and FINALLY warner brothers had the balls to call them for what they were. gay men in love. of course, it's too little too late, but at least it's a win.

the fighting scenes. there were many, and all wonderfully choreographed. too bad they were confusing af. what is that double, mirror dimension of sorts? no clue, it was never explained, it was a cheap attempt at making sure that the fights hurt no muggles or wizards and i hated it. it was never explained in harry potter, i think (maybe i'm wrong, but i'm pretty sure) and while it looks great, i dislike it.

the parallel between the duel that killed ariana and when gellert tries to kill credence.

grindelwald as a seer.

the final scene.

that's basically it.

oh, everything and anything visual was great. except for maybe costumes but i'll talk about that later.

And now the bad stuff:

the writing. which is probably the worst thing ever to get wrong. the acting is good (except for eddie mumbling every single one of his lines which becomes annoying after a while), even great at times. but the writing is so bad.

i mean, jkr and steve kloves were the writers. and i know jkr has questionable views but she was never a bad writer. or better, she was never a bad novelist. i'm starting to think she sucks at screenplays.

the whole first part of the movie is useless. it's even explicitly stated inside the movie. well, that's bad writing my friends. if it was all for nothing, and no lessons/additional information that couldn't be read in a newspaper (i.e., grindelwald being allowed to run), then it's bad writing. it wasn't for the characters. it wasn't for the plot. so WHY DID YOU SHOW IT TO ME? when you could have saved time for more important things?

the movie is two hours and a half. after thirty minutes the wheels of the plot aren't even in motion. you would think that if the movie took its time it was to include meaningful dialogue and character development. but NOPE. it's for shenanigans like bunty and the trunks.

and i get their struggle, i do: fans want good duels and fighting scenes (and those are very good, especially the ones with Lalie and Gellert v. Albus). but fans also want the magical creatures. they want the beasts to have their space, and they need to show new ones. but then they also want grindeldore. alright, okay. let's show it. but what about good dialogues and high stakes? what about complex bidimensional characters? NOPE. no time for those.

this happens, of course, because there are TOO. MANY. USELESS. CHARACTERS. so many that, since they all need screen time, none of them gets explored in the right way. except maybe gellert.

nagini is gone. they don't even mention her. not even credence. not even when he talks with queenie, who can READ MINDS, so there was the perfect excuse to bring her up even if credence doesn't want to.

queenie is useless. i still don't understand why she joined grindelwald since she knows he hates muggles. while in his service she does NOTHING. she's not a double agent, she's not useful to either grindelwald or dumbledore. she's just there. of course i know they did this because they had to wrap things up in the end since there probably won't be a fourth movie, but couldn't they do it a little better?

maybe give her yusuf's screen time. since he's the worst character in terms of how he's written and he has no weight on the plot whatsoever. he doesn't have a mission, only has two scenes, isn't useful for the whole luggage subplot ... why is he even in this movie?

but at least, AT LEAST, they show him grieving for his sister (even though he just accepts to have his memories of her erased?? why was this done?? to show that gellert is bad? i mean, i think it's pretty obvious from the scene where he kills bambi...)

THESEUS you dick. why is he so happy? why is he not incoherent with grief? why does he not seethe with rage at the thought of leta, who he was going to marry? and not in the "ohi, you're under arrest "way. nono, in the blowing avada kedavras at vinda and grindelwald like a madman way. why doesn't he look sad and sombre?

they killed my leta FOR WHAT exactly? she was hands down the most complex character aside from grindeldore (which coincidentally are the only two whose story is actually told in the original saga). and maybe the single best performance on screen in all three movies. i don't get it. i hate it when female characters are killed off just to give male characters an origin story, but at least it gives them purpose. leta died just because. her death adds nothing to the story.

her replacement is lalie. now, i know that in this day and age god forbid you have a cast that is too white (you know, made up of witches and wizards from 1930 britain) and you need the token diversity character. it's irritating, but i get why they do it. i can forgive it. what i cannot forgive is how useless to the plot she is.

she was probably my favourite character of the whole movie, i enjoyed her sassiness and the way she used magic, but she is so. useless. why is she, or theseus, or yusuf, or jacob even, required for this mission? don't they all have jobs?? dumbledore needs to find a substitute teacher for his classes, porpentina is busy with work (AND SHE HAS THE SAME JOB TITLE AS THESEUS) so why are they all strolling about? i get newt and bounty, and maybe jacob since his bakery is in ruins, but what about the others?

more than that, what compels them to fight grindelwald? "Oh, it's the right thing to do!" NO YOU FOOLS, that's not enough. It's not compelling, it's BORING. especially when some of them have good reasons, in theory. theseus (and yusuf) lost leta. jacob lost queenie.

no idea why an american schoolteacher feels so touched by a german despot, but okay. i guess. she's nice but so bi-dimensional.

why do they need these people in particular? give me an "ocean's eleven" type of segment where you explain why these people and not 5 trained aurors.

dumbledore needs to send his own men because the ministry takes no stance like fudge did years later? because grindelwald has supporters in the british ministry that don't want this to happen? give me a scene where vinda goes to talk with her british cousins and gets them to support gellert and we see baby druella every reason is fine but there must be one.

the minerva mcgonagal cameo is useless. also, they didn't retcon what is clearly a mistake so... i hate it :)

vinda rosier gets 5 lines and no characterization whatsoever apart from being "pretty and evil". if she was less striking we probably wouldn't care about her as much. this woman has no motivations of her own, apparently. we don't even know what her relationship with grindelwald actually is.

and do not get me started on the other useless henchmen.

why do they force jacob to come along? why do they insist on putting a muggle in danger? albus is no seer but COME ON. we already saw grindelwald use people as scapegoats in the last movie, and it's clear he would do the same with jacob. "oh but he's a good man with courage" WHO CARES? are there no good men in 1930 england? where are all the brave gryffindors ffs?

it does NOT work. you know what would? JACOB wanting to go. JACOB demanding to go, because he hasn't given up on queenie and he wants to "save" her.

was it to confuse grindelwald? it doesn't work, because there isn't one (1) scene where he looks shocked, or even perplexed at the sight of a muggle with a wand.

and what about the whole thing with the tie? how could dumbledore know that theseus was going to get captured? even if he could predict that, you seriously want me to believe he was basing his rescue plan off the niffler??

also, we never see newt activate the portkey in that moment and that is not how portkeys work.

the whole subplot with bunty and the luggage was stupid. we know that there's a spell that literally duplicates objects by creating perfect copies, so it's a useless waste of time. also, why doesn't she use the switch that sets it to "muggle mode"? we've seen newt do it before.

the two candidates for supreme mugwump are absolutely the same. they have no personality and are just namesakes.

the german minister of magic contradicts himself more than once in the film. i watched his scenes twice and i still don't understand his motives. there must be a cut scene or something because one minute he implies that he doesn't like grindelwald and the next he's chilling with him and his men. he openly says that he thinks GG will lose just as he sees him arriving by means of crowd-surfing. it's not like he turns a blind eye and that is why gellert wins. no, the man actively enables him and helps him. WHY?! have vinda or even yusuf put him under the imperius curse ffs!

how do credence and aberforth have communicating mirrors? no idea. it's never explained.

why is the phoenix dying because credence is dying? phoenixes have their own independent cycle of life and rebirth. we see this with fawkes. otherwise, why isn't fawkes dying when dumbledore is in book 6? it's never explained.

This all comes down to the main problem of the movie: this movie has no dialogues. seriously, all they do is duel and say vague things like "the plan is no plan". fuck off. they don't even state clearly why the plan is no plan, they say vague stuff, the characters acknowledge it's confusing and then they laugh about it.

SPOILER: even if you acknowledge your mistakes in the story itself ("oh, we don't know what to do against grindelwald" or "oh, we're back where we started ahaha") it DOESN'T MAKE IT GOOD. actually, it makes it worse. it's just lazy writing.

Nothing is explained to the audience because the movie uses "show not tell" to the extreme. fine, don't tell, but please at least give a name to what we're seeing. good stories are character-driven. this one is not.

seriously, none of them has one good dialogue, that isn't full of clichés.

finally, one last thing that really bothered me. why why why are they all dressed like muggles? the costumes look amazing - my personal favourite was eulalie's gold evening gown - but WHY are they all dressed like muggles? yes, there is a little outfit change for eulalie when she goes to pick up jacob that maybe should underline the differences between wizard and muggle clothing - there are none.

albus dumbledore and gellert grindelwald should all be donning the most campy over-the-top wizard robes. why would grindelwald ever be dressed like a muggle? it doesn't make sense, especially since albus is described more than once as being ignorant of muggle clothing rules. alright, he's younger here, but how is it that he and gellert don't look even a little out of place at the beginning of the movie?

don't get me wrong, i think the costumes are absolutely beautiful and i would kill to have them in any other film BUT THIS ONE. because they don't fit the characters at all. all of these wizards dressed like muggles, i don't get it.

the worst offender of all, imo is pureblood dark witch vinda rosier who dresses in a suit to a fancy wizard party. her outfit is amazing and high fashion and exactly my style... i adore it. i, a muggle, would definitely wear it. the question is- why would she?

This is what I strive to look like at social gatherings. I want this to be me and my future husband. I just don't think it's the right look for them.

62 notes · View notes

fblover · 10 months

Text

Underdog list!

If you didn't find your favorite rare and unpopular character from FB in this list, write me in replies who is it, I'm really interested!

#fantastic beasts #fantastic beasts poll #fbtsod #fbtcog #fbwtft #langdon shaw #modesty barebone #bunty broadacre #yusuf kama #aberforth dumbledore #seraphina picquery #vicencia santos #helmut #anton vogel #nagini

9 notes · View notes

eveneechan · 2 years

Text

Tina Goldstein and her relationship crumbs on SoD (spoiler!)

Despite her limited screentime, there's still some relationship progress/paralell/crumbs with Tina's most important people: Queenie, Credence, Newt

1. Queenie and Tina = Queenie and Kama

When Queenie reads Kama's memory, her expression looks really sad when she mention about "sister's memory" and GG took that memory from Kama

Can't help but wonder if Queenie looks really sad just because reading Kama's memory, or is it also because it remind her with her sister?? ;n;

Later in gala dinner scene, Kama took Queenie's hand to bring her go, leaving Jacob

It's paralell with (deleted shot) of Tina took Queenie's hand during Jacob's farewell

Should i mention the BGM when Kama's took Queenie's hand is Queenie's theme during Jacob's farewell too? ;n;

And both Kama and Tina are older siblings ;w;

(Edited) Bonus:

Tina is the one who met Kama first in CoG. Kinda wondering if they build some kind of friendship later. And then Tina ask Kama to looking out for Queenie

***

2. Tina and Credence

In FB1, Tina was stand up for Credence and telling him about GG (Grindel!Graves):

"He's using you"

Now in FB3, Credence can stand up by himself, and telling others about GG:

"He's lying to you"

Love how Credence now grow up and can stand up for himself (and probably kinda learnt that from Tina) (even tho Tina can't reach him anymore)

(And Tina must be saw that from afar at MACUSA HQ)

***

3. Newt and Tina

Newtina crumbs on SoD that i've wrote before:

part 1

part 2

***

Thanks for reading my TED talk

#tina goldstein #newt scamander #newtina #fantastic beasts #queenie goldstein #credence barebone #aurelius dumbledore #yusuf kama #goldstein sisters #fantastic beasts secrets of dumbledore #fantastic beasts the secrets of dumbledore #fantastic beasts 3 #fantastic beasts spoiler #spoiler

98 notes · View notes

4theseus-s · 1 year

Text

yusuf: why don't i like this person?

newt: i don't know, maybe it's because they keep stealing your thunder

yusuf: because it's because his name is "theseus." don't you find that utterly ridiculous?

newt: no

yusuf: that's because your name is "newt."

10 notes · View notes

magicalhideoutengineer · 2 years

Text

Queenie Goldstein at Nurmengard - Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

#fantastic beasts #secrets of dumbledore #queenie goldstein #yusuf kama #gellert grindelwald #fb3 deleted scenes

42 notes · View notes

thewrathfulwitch · 9 months

Text

When we allow ourselves to be consumed by anger, the only victim is ourself. - Gellert Grindelwald, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Secrets of Dumbledore (directed by David Yates)

#gellert grindelwald #fantastic beasts #secrets of dumbledore #david yates #anger #victimization #harry potter #yusuf kama

6 notes · View notes

im-abanana · 2 years

Text

543 notes · View notes

dragoneyes618 · 10 months

Text

One of the things I like about Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is the portrayal of so many different, complicated sibling relationships.

Tina and Queenie. Newt and Theseus. Albus and Aberforth. Leta and Corvus, and Yusuf and Leta, and even Credence and Modesty and Chastity.

All of them siblings, and all of them care for each other, although they may not always show it, although the circumstances may be tangled and complicated.

#fantastic beasts and where to find them #newt scamander #theseus scamander #tina goldstein #queenie goldstein #albus dumbledore #aberforth dumbledore #credence barebone #modesty barebone #chastity barebone #leta lestrange #yusuf kama #corvus lestrange v #corvus lestrange

20 notes · View notes

dumbledore-and-grindelwald · 2 years

Note

I was thinking about going to see SOD again because I feel like I need a rewatch. What, in your opinion, are some things to look for, or what are some things you noticed on the second or third watch that you didn't notice before?

I don't even know where to begin to answer this.

Definitely pay attention to Mikkelsen's acting. His facial expressions bring so much nuance that is not expressed verbally. Some specific moments: when Credence has brought the Qilin, notices the Qilin's reactions to the Qilin and the shifts in Gellert's face. You can pinpoint the exact moment he makes the final decision to kill it. I noticed more and more moments during which Grindelwald seems to see aspects of Albus in Kama and follows a more 'emotional logic' in dealing with him for this very reason. Also, when Albus asks the Qilin to choose someone else and the creature goes to Santos, there is something very specific about the wording Albus used that I find essential to Gellert's reation.

Newt expects Theseus to fully trust in the plan and to settle into not knowing, but he doesn't always do so himself. There are several scenes that are connected to each other and demonstrate Newt's struggle to adjust to putting something important to him in line without having control over it.

Some say that Theseus had nothing to do in the plan and that he didn't develop. He has a very specific purpose during the first part. Moreover, his character arc is beautiful. Think of it in terms of someone strict and efficient learning to adjust and to fail. Also, the parallels between Theseus x Newt and between the idea we get of Albus x Aberforth in DH are gold and a lot of that shows in the Erkstag scene, which was easy to dismiss as comic relief upon the first watch.

Queenie's storyline could use polishing, but her relationship with Jacob is portrayed BEAUTIFULLY. During the candidate dinner keep an eye on Sudol's expressions. Jacob calls her name and she doesn't respond but throughout the scene there is an impressive range of emotion in her face because she can hear Jacob even if he isn't speaking.

Jacob is very insecure and Queenie being able to see in his head and thinking of him as special was essential to his confidence. In this movie the same result is achieved by having him bond with Lally and Albus, who are both very observant and intuitive.

Contextualize the scene of Albus telling Aberforth that he'll help him be there for Credence in terms of Albus' own guild over not being there for Aberforth and Ariana.

There is contrast in the way Gellert treats Credence and Queenie. He is much more direct with Credence. He lies more directly and he retaliates openly. But he tests where Queenie's heart lies and then indirectly threatens her by using simple remarks that are calm and seem unrelated but have double meaning.

Santos is still underdeveloped but still, the scene of her stopping Jacob's torture is not the only one that prepares us for her being the second choice of the Qilin.

I could go on. Frankly, even if you have no idea of what you're searching for you'll just keep noticing things at your own pace.

#fantastic beasts #the secrets of dumbledore #albus dumbledore #gellert grindleward #gellert grindelwald #newt scamander #queenie goldstein #jacob kowalski #aberforth dumbledore #yusuf kama #theseus scamander #sod spoilers #tsod spoilers #asks

48 notes · View notes

appreciatingtokrev · 2 years

Text

so i just watched secrets of dumbledore for the third time and hhhhhh i’ve got so many things to talk about i don’t even know where to start!! obviously, this is full of spoilers btw

i love jacob he’s amazing. i love how he held his pan in the beginning and how he put the niffler in it. i also love how he told queenie that dumbledore was wrong about his heart being full because there will always be space for her in it like boy adkgjfjg he’s so in love with her he’s so sweet

then there’s lally and omfg i love her. she’s so cool?? like? i love her she’s amazing the scene where jacob 'tried to assassinate grindelwald'? amazing amazing i loved it

yk how the first message we see on the mirror was 'forgive me' and it was written by aberforth? idk abt you guys but when i first watched the movie i was like hmm but then forgot about it and when i re-watched it it made so much sense. very good example of a hermeneutic circle imo

then there’s the scene where the qilin walked past both santos and tao and they looked at eachother for a second. and it wasn’t a look of 'why isn’t it me?' but of 'why is it neither of us/why is it him?' and i loveddd that hhhh. it really shows that they would’ve been happy with either of them as the winner and that they respect and like eachother. i love that for them and everybody else bc that means they’d both be at least decent leaders

i prefer short-haired credence. he just.. looks like snape. this brings us to my moms theory, being that he’ll become snape. i’m too lazy to type it all out rn but she’s actually got more points than i thought at first, dven though i believe it’s too crazy to be true lol.

so, we didn’t see nagini in here at all and... i’m not really disappointed? even though i thought i’d be? she just didn’t fit the plot this time but i hope to see her in the next movie

i really really like mads as grindelwald. he looks exactly like i’ve always imagined grindelwald looking and honestly, he acts him really well. i liked johnny as grindelwald but he was always a miscast for me and mads fits him so much better imo. a friend of mine said she prefers johnny bc he’s johnny bc he feels a lot more like an actual authority but tbh, i like how mads makes me feel more like he’s a normal person. like, he’s not connected to normal people at all and everybody sees him as authority anyway, but it doesn’t feel like he’s better and different from others?? because, in the end, he’s just some guy with fantasies? idk

now, then there’s the second qilin that bowed before dumbledore and santos. i liked that it bowed before dumbledore, it enhanced the plot and it fits, so, yes. it bowing before santos? zero plot enhancement, unneccessary and a waste of potentional. ever since i saw jacob 'playing' with the qilin for the firat time, it was clear for me that it’ll bow before him. especially after all the 'you’ve got a filled heart' talk and everybody else who called him a good guy. and just imagine how much plot enhancement we would’ve gotten! if he was the second person it’d bowed to, the people would’ve seen that muggles are good (i mean, many know, but for the sake of the crowds mind/not thinking for yourself and following the crowd (which btw was shown really well during the scenes in bhutan, imo)) and it would’ve also helped jacob to believe all of the talk about him being a good guy. i mean, santos would’ve won anyways because neither dumbledore nor jacob were candidates so the people should’ve just voted and i’m quite sure she would’ve won, so... i’m kinda mad it didn’t bow before jacob.

i really liked the scenes of, before and right after the duel between dumbledore and credence. idk, they were really pretty and i loved the ,,he’s not here for you. he’s here for me.’’ especially because credence clearly doesn’t know it’s because he’ll die soon, bdcause if he did, he would’ve said it’s there for dumbledore. but dumbledore knows and i think this is where he realises that he’s dying very soon, it’s the first time he sees the phoenix near credence.

i only realised when i watched it the second time but do you know who’s there when grindelwald 'revives' the qilin? 1) credence, obviously, which makes sense, because he wants him there, and we know that anyway because he talks to him during the scene. 2) that girl from paris (i hate her, btw), which also makes sense, because she’s where he is at least 99% of the time, unless he sends her away. and 3) vogel. ?? i mean, we know he’s rooting for grindelwald, at least after the scene where he tries to show that his qilin is alive (which it isn’t, and he knows), but i didn’t know the two were that close. tbh, i can’t really think of any other reason grindelwald wanted him there except for him trusting him not to tell anyone and wanting him to see it for whatever reason i can’t think of right now. it took a lot of trust though, he could’ve given him the not-so-alive qilin anyway without telling him about anything of that, but he chose to have him watch. really makes me wonder about their history. i mean, he only had people there with him who he trusted and who were, in a way, very close to him. so what exactly was vogel doing there??

then there’s grindelwald and dumbledores battle and afkfjghfgsfh. i’m not going to repeat what everybody else on here already said about it but. the small step grindelwald made towards dumbledore when he walked away to pick up the blood pact. right in the feels. the ,,who’s going to love you now, dumbledore?’’ right in the feels. also, is it just me or is that a clear statement of him still loving dumbledore? because, like, it’s clear that he did love him, just from this sentence alone. but it very heavily implies that he still loves him but now he defenitly has to stop because they’re gonna have to fight.

i reaaally like yusuf kama, btw! i feel like he’d be great as both a 'good' or a 'bad' guy and ngl i’m just excited to see more of him in general because i think he’s very interesting

i probably forgot half of the things i wanted to say but yeah 👍

#secrets of dumbledore #albus dumbledore #gellert grindelwald #yusuf kama #jacob kowalski #lally hicks #btw guys if you have any fics with vogel and gellert interacting.#send them to me PLEASE #i read a chinese one on deepl few days ago bc it was the only one i could find.#i’m desperate okay #ramble ramble

12 notes · View notes