I Dont Know Who Is The Author, But Its Stunning

i dont know who is the Author, but its stunning

Jordi Gual, Le petit oiseau

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” (Plato)

this. is. so. lovely. i mean it

My kids and what’s in their bags!

Theory about the real Percival Graves during the movie.

Yes, I’ve already said that in my opinion we’ve seen the real Percival Graves during the movie, but now I’ve read the screenplay and I really want to talk more about this subject. I’m gonna walk you through what I thought while reading the script, and I’d love to hear you thoughts about this! ( I really hope that everyone understands everything, I really don’t write in english often. ) • The movie’s opening is the scene involving Grindelwald, who’s fighting against a bunch of aurors. The descriptions says “EXT. SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE — 1926 — NIGHT ”, so Grindelwald was in Europe the night that he “Strikes again” as the headlines of the papers said. The very next scene after the montage with the newspapers is the one in which Newt arrives to New York, the description says “ EXT. SHIP GLIDING INTO NEW YORK — NEXT MORNING ”, so we can assume that Newt Scamander arrives in America the morning after Grindelwald’s attack in Europe. Newt comes down from the ship, he has the conversation with the customs official and then goes on about his day. The scene after this one it’s the one in which we see the Obscurus for the first time, along with Graves, and the description says: “ EXT. STREET NEAR CITY HALL SUBWAY — DUSK ”, I think it’s safe to assume that the day was about to end, and we are still talking about the day in which Newt came to America. Now, Grindelwald is a very powerful and resourceful wizard, we all know that. But– I highly doubt that he was really capable of moving to America, take hold of some polyjuice potions ( since it was confirmed by Yates & Heyman that Grindelwald use that method to replace Graves ) and replace a very high positioned and expert auror such as Percival Graves. Someone might argue that, maybe, Grindelwald took the place of Mr. Graves months before the events of the movie, but I really can’t think about a way in which Grindelwald could have been in Europe while Graves works in America most of his time, the frequent absence would have been a bit suspicious.

• So, assuming that what I just explained is true. When does the change happen?  To me, the change happens somewhere between the scene in which Tina takes Newt to the MACUSA because of the Niffler, and the first conversation that we see on screen with Credence; at that time it was really obvious that Grindelwald took the place of Graves. How do you make the distinction between real!Graves and fake!Graves? During an interview Colin Farrell talked about how Percival Graves had frequent conversations by letter with Newt’s brother, Theseus, this one being a very talented and brave British auror. So, Mr. Graves knew about the existence of Newt and, according to the actor, he had an initial indulgence towards the younger member of the Scamander family.  In my opinion, we can actually see that during the scene in which Tina tries to show to Graves Newt’s case ( which was actually Jacob’s during that scene ). Mr. Graves refers to the Niffler calling it “ little guy ”, and smiles to Tina like he’s trying to encourage her. During the rest of movie we’ll see none of that. Fake!Graves is going to refer to Newt’s creatures as “beasts” only, which is yes the correct term to call them, but he will not show any of the empathy he showed during the first scene with Tina & Newt at the MACUSA. Back to the screenplay, the description as Tina opens the case to reveal its content ( Jacob’s pastries ) says: “ GRAVES looks confused, but smirks slightly — another of TINA’s mistakes. ” Now, if this Mr. Graves was actually impersonated by Grindelwald how would he know that Tina is a clumsy auror that makes a lot of mistakes like this one? He wouldn’t. Therefore, to me, this was the real!Graves.  Another proof of this theory is that when Tina walks into the MACUSA for the first time during the movie and interrupts the meeting that is happening in the major investigations department the description of the scene that sees Tina leaving the meeting humiliated says: “ GRAVES looks after them ( Newt & Tina ), the only one to appear sympathetic. ” I know that Grindelwald has to act like the real Graves to be fully believed by a bunch of expert aurors and the President, but no one was actually watching him during the scene, he didn’t need to look sympathetic to Tina’s situation. And, another thing that I thought is: why did he go to Tina in the first place? Why did he look for her when President Picquery said loud and clear that Tina was not an auror anymore? Maybe he was just trying to be kind and nice, but I don’t see why Grindelwald should have done that. I mean, no one seemed to expect Graves arrival during the scene that involves Tina, Newt and Abernathy in front of the Wand Permit Office. So, to me, that was just real!Graves being kind to an ex colleague, who lost her job ‘cause she was too kind and impulsive. • Why is Grindelwald in America? And why he takes the place of Graves? There are many theories concerning the fact that Ariana Dumbledore was an Obscurus, so Grindelwald knew about this kind of magic and was probably searching for it. Also, we can safely assume that shortly before the events of the movie there were a lot of episodes concerning magic in front of muggles in New York. So, probably, Grindelwald took that as a sign to search for what he was looking for.  During the movie fake!Graves explains to Credence that he had visions concerning his mother and her proximity to the Obscurus he was looking for. Since Grindelwald’s words are not really reliable I’m not very inclined to take them as the truth, but maybe he really had some sort of visions about this. Of course he lies when he tells Credence that he had a vision of the two of them being honored among wizards, that was obviously a way to trick the boy into doing what he wanted him to do, but the rest of the vision-thing can be true. Then the next question is, why Graves? Percival Graves is a very highly talented, powerful and trusted member of the MACUSA, taking his identity was probably kind of simple because no one questions him except for the President, he probably didn’t have a lot of friends either… No one could tell the difference for a while. Also, being this respected auror he could investigate and search for the obscurus with every mean necessary, and that was exactly what Grindelwald wanted. Moreover, Graves had a contact inside the Second Salem Church, which Grindelwald probably found really interesting and useful: Credence Barebone.

• So what about Credence?

In my opinion, Graves already knew Credence, and the boy trusted him deeply. Tina had two accidents involving the Second Salem Church, one of them involved Credence directly and I think we can assume that he wasn’t obliviated, since he probably had a magical biological-mother and so he already knew about the existence of magic. This two things ( that he had a magical mother and that he wasn’t obliviated ) are easily proven by the screenplay, since it’s said that Credence dreamt of Tina every night since she saved him from May Lou’s beatings, and Mary Lou more than once says that Credence’s mother was an abomination and a monster.  To me, after the accident that results in Tina being fired, Graves interacts with Credence, not only asking for his version of the facts, but also stipulating a sort of deal with him, in which he would treat his wounds and cuts while Credence gives him informations about the Second Salem Church and his mother’s intentions, since that organization ( even if it’s very little ) is a threat to the magical world secrecy.   But how would Grindelwald know about Credence Barebone and his deal with Graves? I have three options:  • He extorted that information from Graves, which is totally possible. • He knew from an associate of his ( the goblin from the pub, anyone?? ). • He actually didn’t knew, he just got lucky ( which to me is kind of possible since it wouldn’t be the first time that someone in JK Rowling’s stories just got lucky for something, I mean. .  Harry Potter got lucky for more than a couple of times. ).

• When does Grindelwald replace Graves? From the scene with Tina & Newt in front of the Wand Permit Office and the first on screen scene with Credence, according to the screenplay, there’s a whole day - maybe something less, If I’m not mistaken - .  So, to me, Graves is kidnapped during this period of time, and Grindelwlad immediately goes to Credence to talk to him about the Obscurus ( but we don’t see this ). The dialogue of the first on screen scene with Credence is almost like they are discussing something that they recently discovered. Credence is asking about informations, like he still doesn’t understand why he can’t know the physical gender of the child he’s looking for, and Graves has to explain the task and everything from the beginning. So probably that scene was like one of the very first discussions that they’re having about the search for the obscurus.  So the conclusion is: Percival Graves is somewhere alive and unwell, and they need to find him, and bring him back for the second movie. THANKS.

adorable dear Tina