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I'm genuinely disappointed that the sequel to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is officially titled Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald . JKR had already established a wonderful pattern: that each prequel movie set in the Wizarding World could be named after a textbook. Instead, the name of the franchise is now Fantastic Beasts , leaving us with 2 problems: 1) " Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them"  is simply too long (it's so long that I copied and pasted it that time). We usually abbreviate it Fantastic Beasts , but that doesn't mean  Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (copied and pasted again) anymore. That name refers to the franchise as a whole. It's a similar problem to when Star Wars  got retitled Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope . Years later, people still hear Star Wars  and don't know if it's talking about the franchise or the film. Hopefully, people will start calling  Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (co...

I feel like there was a really long time when Tom Riddle was trapped in the diary and just writing things like: "Hello? Anyone there?" "Might as well work on my penmanship. Harry Potter... HARRY POTTER... harry potter..." "Oh, look! I can draw a pinata!" "Day 8,676. Still 16 years old. Did nothing today." "'I wanna be where the people are... I wanna see, wanna see them dying...' Filthy muggle song..." "Hey, guys! I can write in Helvetica now! Oh, right. No one can hear me." *draws dark mark* *draws wand touching dark mark* "..." "Maybe it'll work on the 243rd try." "I wonder if any of the other books can write? Nope. They've got all their words written in already. Right. I'm not a book." "Day 10,435. Invented a new curse today. Remind me to use it if I ever get out. Still 16 years old."