Fantastic Beasts: 28 Easter Eggs & References You Must See

28. Hedwig's Theme

After the trailers heavily relied on the Harry Potter brand to sell the idea of Fantastic Beasts in a comfortable, familiar way (unwittingly pissing some fans off when they discovered it's not actually a Potter film), it shouldn't come as any surprise that the film opens with the famous Potter fanfare. The song - called Hedwig's Song, but hardly ever acknowledged as such - plays over the Warner Bros logo before the new Fantastic Beasts fanfare replaces it.

It's symbolic and almost like Warner Bros are setting out their stalls early: acknowledging that yes, this IS a Harry Potter film, and that's important, but that it's also an entirely new thing in itself too.