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Happy New Year! Harry Potter fans everywhere (including myself) have another reason to celebrate entering 2016 – Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them will be hitting the big screen! It’s been five years since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the last movie to be set in J.K. Rowling’s magical world, was released in cinemas, so I got chills hearing “Lumos maxima” whispered at the start of the trailer. It’s been too long!

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1. Magical creatures have been smuggled into New York City in a briefcase, and some have apparently escaped. Plus, Newt Scamander, played by Eddie Redmayne, looks like he’ll be a great main character!

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2. Some of those fantastic beasts are big, and powerful. There’s a moment in the trailer where you see a New York apartment with an entire brick wall missing – implying a magical creature was involved.

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3. Potterheads finally got to see the American wizarding world in action! The film takes place in 1920s America, the first time we’ve gotten to see a wizarding world outside of Britain. At one point, you can see a sign for America’s version of the Ministry of Magic – the Magical Congress of the United States of America.

Not enough cool facts for you? Here’s something J.K. Rowling revealed a few months ago – in America, wizards and witches don’t call a person without magical powers a ‘muggle’, they call them a ‘no-maj’. I’m keen to see what other differences there are between the American and British wizarding worlds!
Watch the trailer here:

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