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“It is true that I was born in the West Country and grew up on the Welsh border and while I have Scottish blood on my mother’s side, I also have English, French and Flemish ancestry. She wrote: “I also know that there is a fringe of nationalists who like to demonise anyone who is not blindly and unquestionably pro-independence and I suspect, notwithstanding the fact that I’ve lived in Scotland for twenty-one years and plan to remain here for the rest of my life, that they might judge me ‘insufficiently Scottish’ to have a valid view. For fans in the United States, it will be streaming on HBO Max in the United States beginning April 1.She compared a section of Scottish nationalists to Death Eaters.ĭeath Eaters are fictional characters in her Harry Potter series, an evil tribe of wizards and witches who support Lord Voldemort and reject wizards unless they have “pure blood”, meaning exclusively magical heritage. Oh, and for anyone wondering, Fry’s Hogwarts House is Hufflepuff, and his boggart would be “an enormous moth.”įans in the UK can watch Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History on BBC One and iPlayer tonight at 7:00 p.m. Of course, we love our shiny gadgets, but we want to return to a world too where not everything is explained by mathematics and programming and coding – but another kind of magic. I don’t think that’s a coincidence I think that’s a reaction. At exactly the time that Silicon Valley was exploding. That’s when things like ‘Lord of the Rings’ and of course, ‘Harry Potter’ really made their mark on the world. When asked why he thinks the wizarding world is still so well-loved today, Fry gave a thoughtful answer about our desire to return to “myths, dragons and fantasy” in the face of technology. The side that would pull people’s trousers down and run away and then start time again and giggle… I mean, that’s pathetic, isn’t it? Come on, Stephen come up with a more grownup answer.

I think that would be so exciting and interesting to go around the world with everybody frozen – I could just wreak havoc! That’s the naughty side of me. Turning to matters of the wizarding world, Fry revealed that while it would be tempting to have the gift of luck, the magical ability he would like to have would be stopping time. The truth behind dragons, mermaids, unicorns and other legendary beasts. Hope you enjoy “Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History” on BBC 1 and this Sunday at 7 pm. So why should we worry about whales, pandas, white rhinos and Yangtze River dolphins going extinct on our watch? And clearly because of pollution in the water or in other cases because of hunting – we know it’s our fault now. We were talking about dinosaurs – they went extinct, and it wasn’t our fault. Of course, dinosaurs are Muggle world creatures that have been long lost to time, and one theme the documentary explores is the danger of extinction to animals in our time due to climate change. His favorite place to visit was the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry in Utah. Making Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History took Fry all over the world to meet and learn about Muggle creatures and their environments. Even when you’re as old as I am, you think it would be nice to have a mentor. Dumbledore is quite remote, but that’s the point he has authority.

I think we all need a friend, and lot of us yearn for a friend who can be a guide. Fluffy, not so much!īut which non-creature character does Fry feel most drawn to in the Wizarding World? I think that’s the thing that most thrilled me, no question.

Speaking of magical creatures, Fry stated that while Aragog isn’t his favorite beast from the Potter series, he is drawn to another of Hagrid’s creature companions.īut I did like Buckbeak enormously, and like a lot of people, I have a fantasy of just getting on the back of some enormous flying beast and sort of clutching their fur, their down or whatever it might be, and flying away. Stephen Fry embarks on an incredible journey to discover the stories behind some of the worlds most fantastic beasts. And that suddenly made sense as to why there are dragon myths all over the world. They had no way of knowing, if they saw a skull of some huge frightening beast, that that beast was extinct for millions of years! As far as they knew, it was around the next mountain or buried in a cave. One such “obvious fact” that surprised him is that our ancestors living thousands of years ago would have discovered dinosaur fossils.

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Tonight’s magical documentary is set to be full of fascinating facts, and Fry revealed that he learned a lot from making the show. Ahead of the airing of Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History on BBC One in the United Kingdom, the documentary’s presenter and narrator of Potter audiobooks in the UK, Stephen Fry, sat down with Wizarding World Digital to talk about magical creatures, the environment, and his relationship with Potter.