Fantastic Beasts: The actors rumoured to play the young Dumbledore

Publish date: Tuesday, 29 Nov 2016, 4:26PM

Fantastic Beast and Where To Find Them has been highly anticipated for a while now and we are stoked that the first movie is finally out in cinemas!

For those not up to scratch with their Hogwarts homework, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is set 70 years before the first Harry Potter film (and book), in New York in 1926.

It sets the scene for the next four films that Rowling has confirmed will be released.

Rowling has also said that the final Fantastic Beasts film will end in 1945, which is also the date when Albus Dumbledore, future headmaster of Hogwarts and mentor to Harry Potter, had a historic duel with dark magician Gellert Grindelwald. So that means, they will need to cast a young Dumbledore! Director David Yates has confirmed that a young version of Dumbledore will appear in the second Fantastic Beasts film, due to arrive in cinemas in 2018.

Now for those who are avid Harry Potter fans, this is extremely important and if it's not cast right then it could be a game-changer.

Already, the Harry Potter fanship has jumped on board with who they'd like to see play Dumbledore; here are their top picks: