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Can you spot the three hidden Harry Potter references in the 'Fantastic Beasts' trailer?

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The latest trailer for the upcoming Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them film has dropped and sent Harry Potter fans into an all-new meltdown over the exploits of Eddie Redmayne's Newt Scamander.

The film, which is set n 1920s New York, exhibits a few nods to Harry Potter's storyline, set in the same universe.

Take a peek at the trailer:

But, Potterfans, did you spot all the easter eggs in the trailer?

See our full list, below:

1. An impossibly bigger-on-the-inside Trunk.

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Where have we seen this before?

Oh yes, Mad-Eye Moody in the Goblet of Fire.

This suitcase, holds all the fantastically dangerous beasts in the film - draw your own conclusions as to why Newt is emerging from it looking very guilty.

2. Gellert Grindelwald

Yes, you heard it right - the most powerful evil wizard before Voldemort was mentioned.

Will he feature as an antagonist? Possibly - although the film is set twenty years before his dramatic duel with Albus Dumbledore.

Anyway, Twitter was excited, regardless:

3. The International Statute of Secrecy

The famous document from 1698, preserving the wizarding world from the knowledge of 'muggles' has been around for just a while longer by Harry's time.

It appears that Newt may have violated it when a 'No-Maj' (an American term for 'muggle') wanders into his suitcase - he's asked by Porpentina Goldstein if he's wiped his memory or not:

Mr Scamander, do you know anything about the Wizarding community in America? We don’t like things loose.

In the Order of the Phoenix, Harry has to stand trial for a breach of the Statute, having defended himself and his cousin Dudley from dementors.

'Disciplinary hearing of the twelfth of August,' said Fudge in aringing voice, and Percy began taking notes at once, 'into offences committed under the Decree for the Reasonable Restriction of Underage Sorcery and the International Statute of Secrecy by Harry James Potter, resident at number four, Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey.'

No doubt Newt may have to worry about it too.

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