Fantastic Beasts 2 Ending And Twist EXPLAINED

1. What It Means To Rowling's Timeline

This is all a mess by now. We know that the Dumbledores timeline is broken, we know that the Lestrange family tree is broken and we also know that Professor McGonagall wasn't at Hogwarts as a teacher in 1927 originally since she wasn't born until 1935 or so.

Fundamentally, JK Rowling has made some serious changes to her own timeline and lore and there's no going back from it.

Rowling has become George Lucas in her stewardship of her property. She's changed lore retrospectively, she's allowed the expansion of mythology with Pottermore that is deeply unhelpful when she has to write new stories set in the past that ignore some things she wrote on Pottermore and she seems to just be winging it and ignoring the criticism.

Think of how she reacted to Nagini's reveal and people questioning her on that - she said she'd planned it all along, which is impossible. And this timeline tinkering shows a disdain for a fanbase she's actively encouraged to be experts with Pottermore. She has, in effect, been hoisted by her own petard.

Let's see how that works out for her.

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