JK Rowling Responds to Plot Hole in FANTASTIC BEASTS and HARRY POTTER

By: Dec. 23, 2016
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JK Rowling took to Twitter to respond to the plot hole in Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts where Queenie's mind-reading skills were questioned. In Fantastic Beasts, Queenie uses Legilimency, which allows entry into the victim's mind, similar to Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

A fan said, "Snape says the mind isn't a book to read at leisure. But Queenie seemed to do just that. Love to know more about Legilimency."

JK Rowling replied by saying on Twitter, "Snape had to train a slight natural ability [in Legilimens]. Queenie was born with a great talent, though she's not infallible." See her response on Twitter below:

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, J.K. Rowling's screenwriting debut, was released worldwide on Friday 18th November 2016. One of the most anticipated movies of the year, it was met with praise from critics, fans and newcomers to the Wizarding World franchise alike, taking almost $700million in global box office sales to date.

Marking our introduction to a new era of J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World, the film has been a hit across the world, with the biggest openings ever recorded for the Wizarding World franchise in China and South Korea. In October, J.K. Rowling revealed at a special fan screening in London that Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is to be the first of five movies in a brand new, fantastical franchise of its own, following a story arc she has already plotted out. She said at the event on 13th October 2016: 'I've now done the plotting properly so we're pretty sure it's going to be five movies.'

A new and original story by J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts was inspired by the Hogwarts textbook of the same name, written by the author's character Newt Scamander, the wizarding world's preeminent Magizoologist.

The film opens in 1926 as Newt Scamander, played by Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne, has just completed a global excursion to find and document an extraordinary array of magical creatures. Arriving in New York for a brief stopover, he might have come and gone without incident...were it not for a No-Maj named Jacob, a misplaced magical briefcase, and the escape of some of Newt's fantastic beasts, which could spell trouble for both the wizarding and No-Maj worlds.

Photo Credit: Mary McCartney 2015



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