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Fantastic, Forceful Films: Common elements in Fantastic Beasts and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
ByEmily Strand December 18, 2016December 21, 2016
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(Some Rogue One spoilers below – clearly marked in ALL CAPS. Fantastic Beasts spoilers too, but seriously, people, you’ve had weeks …)

Ever since I learned to speak Star Wars at the Mythgard Institute a year ago, I’ve been eyeing the places where the Harry Potter and Star Wars franchises seem to intersect, and these places are many. So the fact that Warner Brothers and Disney Studios have, within a month, released film tie-ins to their beloved epics is no great shock. Neither is the fact that the films employ common elements and themes in seeking to delight long-time fans while enticing new ones. Let’s talk about four elements Fantastic Beasts and Rogue One share.

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Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them: A Round Up of HogwartsProfessor Posts
ByJohn December 6, 2016March 7, 2017
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Your HogwartsProfessor faculty has been writing up a storm in the weeks since the release of the first Fantastic Beasts film and the publication of J. K. Rowling’s ‘Original Screenplay.’ We’ve had such a flurry — blizzard? — of posts that you might have missed one or two as they were bumped down and off the front page by recent arrivals.

In the local tradition of rounding up posts on a specific title for the convenience of serious readers (see our Hunger Games round up page for a previous effort), here is the growing catalog of links to the work here so far. We recorded a podcast last night with Keith Hawk at MuggleNet that I know you will enjoy (because we had a lot of laughs and mind-blown moments ourselves while recording it).

Until Keith posts that show (he has!), browse and catch-up on the posts we reference throughout that wild and wide ranging discussion of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them!

John Granger:
- On Rowling’s Missteps and Misappropriatrions in ‘History of Magic in North America‘ (with Dr. Amy H. Sturgis and Allison Mills, MuggleNet Academia podcast)
- On the Story Structure of Fantastic Beasts
- On the Deep Back Story Revealed in Fantastic Beasts
- On the Christian Content in Fantastic Beasts and the New Controversy
- The HogwartsProfessors Talk ‘Fantastic Beasts’ (with Louise Freeman, Emily Strand, and Elizabeth Baird-Hardy; MuggleNet Academia podcast)
- Eugenics in American History and ‘Fantastic Beasts’ (with Professor Chris Gavaler of Washington and Lee University; MuggleNet Academia podcast)
Unlocking Fantastic Beasts: Finding the Text Round Up

Part 1: J. K. Rowling, Screenwriter

Part 2: The Film Makers and Decision Makers?

Part 3: The Six Scenes You Missed in Fantastic Beasts (and the Seventh!)

Part 4: Fantastic Beasts Revelations from the Far Side Sources

Part 5A: So What? The Found Text and Its Meaning
- 5.1 The Story of the Text We’re Looking For
- 5.2 Theseus the Hero and Newt Scamander
- 5.3 Jacob Kowalski: Is He Bigger than Newt?
- 5.4 The Grindelwald-Credence Relationship
- 5.5 Lumos and the Barebone Orphanage
- 5.6 Dougall, Intratextuality, and Readers
- 5.7 Fantastic Beasts and the Beasts Within
Part 5B: The Shooting Script — A Corrected Text for Serious Readers

Part 5C: Conclusions and Predictions

Elizabeth Baird-Hardy
Louise Freeman
Emily Strand
- Gut Reactions to Fantastic Beasts: the Magic is Back (Spoiler-Free)
- Mary Lou Barebones the Harry-Hater: More on the Christian Content of Fantastic Beasts