5 Harry Potter Spinoff Films They Should Make

The Elder Wand story is WAY better than Fantastic Beasts...

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The Harry Potter Franchise is in desperate need of a resurrection stone.

Though the main films ended in 2011 with the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, Warner Bros. don't want their beloved universe to stop printing them money.

In 2016, they released a spinoff called Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and a sequel, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Both films received lukewarm receptions, and Crimes of Grindelwald grossed less than every single other Harry Potter film. Ouch.

Similarly, author JK Rowling hasn't been helping things. She continually tweets out unnecessary details about the wizarding world, like how Hogwarts used to not have bathrooms, so wizards would just magic their poop invisible.

Rowling has also recently drawn controversy for some transphobic tweets, which is especially not cool when your books are about how awful it is to live in a closet.

It's clear that the franchise needs a shot of new life if Warner Bros. want to milk it some more, and Fantastic Beasts and Rowling's tweets aren't the best ways to keep it alive. Here are 5 spinoff films they could make that would magically bring Harry Potter back to life.

5. Care Of Magical Creatures

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The Harry Potter universe is home to some amazing creatures, such as centaurs, werewolves, ghosts, and house elves. Unfortunately, the original films don’t explore them all that much.

Lupin and Dobby are the only magical creatures to have any real character development, and the former, being a werewolf, is seen as a human for a majority of his screen time.

The Fantastic Beasts films introduce us to more, well, fantastic beasts, but they still feel more like Pokémon than characters. Newt Scamander, played by Eddie Redmayne, is the main character, and the beasts are just part of his arc. In the first film, he has to find the beasts he’s accidentally let free in New York City, and in the second, they mostly just take him from point A to point B.

What if the next chapter in the Harry Potter saga had a magical creature in a leading role? It couldn’t be any of the fantastic beasts, since they don’t speak, but imagine a story in the Wizarding World told from the perspective of, say, a complex and well developed centaur. It would allow us to see more of the world we love but from an entirely different point of view.

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Richard C. Kraus (Richie to pretty much everyone) is an American college student and world record holder for most views of the 2015 film Ant-Man. He aspires to be a screenwriter, actor, and not tired.