'Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald' Continues To Frustrate The 'Harry Potter' Legacy

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald continues the Harry Potter franchise, but the magic is disappearing.

There is nothing so anglophilic in this century than a love of the Harry Potter books. The series introduced American readers of all ages to the Oxford method of schooling, with a heavy dose of magic embedded in the U.K.'s millennium of history. Tours of Oxford take tourists to Christ Church college, now known as "The Harry Potter school" due to how many of the original films used it for interior filming.

But the problem inherent in something that is as successful as the Potter franchise is that no one knows when to quit, or, at least, not until every last dollar has been squeezed out. Author J.K. Rowling seems earnestly into the creation of more content, from the Broadway smash hit Harry Potter & The Cursed Child Parts 1 + 2 to the new Fantastic Beasts franchise. But it seems hard to believe that to those overseeing her, this is anything other than a cold hard cash grab. As a result, no one is really providing her with any oversight or editing, which means the films are allowed to go off the deep end with little to no control.