Sometimes great change comes from a small group of people making the right moves at the right time.

This is the strategy that Dumbledore employs in his chess game against Grindelwald.

Plenty of the world’s biggest intellectual properties have gone down a similar road.

Young Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) holding up a pendant while Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) stands behind him in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

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Something that is intrinsic to a political drama is a stripped-down quality.

A sacrifice must be made for something to be gained.

Albus Dumbledore and his allies looking ahead in the Hogwarts Great Hall in Fantastic Beasts

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Gellert Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen) aiming his wand at something off-screen in The Secrets of Dumbledore.

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A group of characters looking in the same direction in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore.

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