If the world’s greatest wizard has secrets up his gown that are even more devastating than these, then truly he represents a sort of human version of Area 51, spitting out enigmas with elegant regularity for the convenience of Rowling’s whirling plot machine. We know that Dumbledore is around 46 years old in Crimes of Grindelwald as Pottermore lists his birth year as 1881 and Crimes takes place just a few months after the December 1926 events of. One of Beasts 2’s other big revelations was that Ezra Miller’s Credence Barebone is really Aurelius Dumbledore, the long-lost brother of Albus and their sibling Aberforth. Yet it’s hard to see her going big on Dumbledore’s battles against the bigots, for obvious reasons. I suppose The Evil Five-Year Plan of Grindelwald didn’t have quite the right ring to it.Ĭould these secrets be ones we already know about, but the main protagonists in the new episode do not? Perhaps Dumbledore’s queer identity is a big deal in the wizarding world – which Rowling has always taken great care to present as a sorcerous mirror image of our own society. Then again, the latter’s “crimes” last time out were more like endless devious plotting. What could the secrets of the title be? We already know – because Rowling told us more than a decade ago – that Dumbledore (played by Jude Law in these prequels) is gay, and Beasts 2 revealed that the future Hogwarts headteacher had a blood pact with Grindelwald, made in their youth, to never go into battle with one another. The Secrets of Dumbledore, in which Depp will be replaced as Grindelwald by Mads Mikkelsen, really needs to take home the Quidditch Cup if the proposed five-film series is not to be cut unceremoniously short. But with the various off-screen travails endured by both Rowling and star Johnny Depp in the intervening period, as well as the saga’s on-screen slump, the shine has rather rubbed off this particular golden snitch.

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