It has been announced by the literary queen herself, J.K. Rowling, that the new Harry Potter prequel movie, "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," will actually be a series of possibly five movies. This came along with a cryptic tweet from Rowling saying “I think, when you realize what story we're *really* telling, you'll understand that it can't possibly fit in one movie!” Though I could spend an article dissecting that alone, and I probably will at some point, this news was met with relative outcry from the Harry Potter fan base.

Rowling has done many things since finishing the Harry Potter series, but the wizarding world is a magnet that keeps bringing her back, and based on the massive amount of people that love the stories there are many that keep calling her back. However, when she offers to expand the universe by a whopping five new films it is seen as a cash grab. This response offers a look at the culture that surrounds the books and films and the fans that love them.

I only know what Harry Potter means to me, but I think it can break down the diversity between how people have reacted to the recent news. You see, I never saw the Harry Potter series as a piece of art. Now I don’t mean that in a critical way, I mean I never saw Harry Potter as an unchanging, concrete, narrative where all the brushstrokes have been painted and they’ll always remain that way. Harry Potter, to me, is the world unto itself. It is a complex universe in which this storyline occurs but is not chained to it. That is why I’m excited for these new additions; they offer to expand the world that I love to spend time in, and I always thought the majority of the fandom was the same. Many aspiring writers who love the series add their own stories into the universe and rewrite pieces that are canon. Aside from that, the rumors that Rowling’s tweet spawned, and the fact that a younger Dumbledore and the dark wizard that we know he comes to love, Grindelwald, together suggests that we may get many answers to the beloved headmaster's history. In the end, it is already obvious that “Fantastic Beasts” will be a wonderful addition to the wizarding world, and I am anxiously awaiting it.