Warning: BIG spoilers for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald ahead!
If there’s one thing Harry Potter fans cannot abide, it’s a mystery left unchecked. But we all know J.K. Rowling loves to throw curveballs that we don’t expect, and with the release of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, she throws quite a few. From the appearance of a professor who seems to be Minerva McGonagall to the the film’s biggest twist (that Credence Barebone is actually a Dumbledore . . . like, WHAT?!) there was a lot that left us digging into our Potter lore to figure out what’s what. But perhaps the biggest head-scratcher of them all was everything surrounding Leta Lestrange — namely her relation to another very famous family member, Bellatrix Lestrange.
On her own, Leta is probably one of the best characters to come out of the Fantastic Beasts sequel. When we first hear of her, she’s simply known as the former flame of Newt Scamander and the possible sister of Credence Barebone (yeah, he’s been thrown around a bit). We delve deeper into Leta’s backstory in The Crimes of Grindelwald, where we learn that she’s a child of rape (so not Credence’s sister after all), and that her half-brother actually drowned as an infant. Of course, after delivering that tragic bit of information, Leta sacrifices herself to save Newt and company, when she’s seemingly killed by Grindelwald in the climax of the film.
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