A new trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore shows that the spinoff series will repeat the titular Hogwarts principal’s mistakes from the original Harry Potter franchise. In the new Fantastic Beasts 3 trailer from Warner Bros., Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler) can be seen following the Scamander brothers on a quest to defeat Gellert Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen) as suggested by Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law), despite the fact that the character is a muggle. Additionally, it is explained that not only does Jacob join the expert wizards on their perilous journey, but he is also given a wand by Dumbledore.
Jacob has been a fixture in the Harry Potter prequel series since Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, after picking up the magical suitcase of magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) instead of his own. Being involved in a dangerous search for fantastic beasts would be reckless enough for somebody that has never heard of magical animals before, but Jacob proved to have a knack for them. However, the journey he will embark on in Fantastic Beasts 3 will be quite different for him as a non-wizard, especially as it puts him directly in the path of Grindelwald, who is already hell-bent on destroying non-magical people.
As the Fantastic Beasts 3 trailer shows, Dumbledore will support Jacob being part of the team in such a way that he will also instruct Newt to give him a wand. The choice of enthusiastically accepting a non-wizard on a dangerous magical quest is a reckless one and would be a mistake, but unfortunately, it’s no different from some of the other things Dumbledore has done in the original Harry Potter series. The renown wizard has previously resorted to sending people on quests they are not particularly well-equipped for, putting them in danger.
In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the Golden Trio of Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson) were sent into the Forbidden Forest, along with Draco (Tom Felton), as a form of punishment. While the sentence was technically handed down by Professor McGonagall (Maggie Smith), it’s unlikely that Dumbledore was completely unaware of the decision—in fact, there’s even a theory suggesting that Dumbledore himself sent Harry into the Forrest knowing that Voldemort was lurking in the shadows, in order to confirm his suspicions. Either way, allowing the first year students to be sent into the Forbidden Forest was careless, bordering on negligence. Dumbledore, or at least a trusted member of his inner circle, sent them to a dangerous place they were supposed to avoid at all costs to investigate someone that was killing unicorns for their blood.
While things obviously worked out in the end, Dumbledore did something even more reckless when he posthumously set up Ron and Hermione to help Harry on his quest for the Horcruxes, leaving them gifts that would aid them on the trip. What the trio went through in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows took a mental, physical and emotional toll that the teenage students were ill-equipped to face. Despite this, Dumbledore chose to put them on that path, either oblivious to the fact that they were unprepared for such dangers or simply at peace with the fact that a possible win against Voldemort would have been worth the risks. It seems like that will be the case for Jacob Kowalski as well, and Fantastic Beasts 3 will show yet another mistake Dumbledore makes regarding how he perceives threat levels when it’s vulnerable characters who must face them.
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Author: Antonella Gugliersi
