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Use this tag to refer to the "Fantastic Beasts" series. For questions about the 2016 film use the [fantastic-beasts-where-to-find-them] tag. Always use in conjunction with the [harry-potter] tag and add the appropriate film tag is asking about a specific film.
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Why did Newt need to cross the Atlantic by steamer?
Newt was illegally smuggling magical creatures, and so used a muggle method of travel. Additionally, lots of his creatures couldn't take various methods of instantaneous magical transportation.
Po …
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Has Leta Lestrange been mentioned in canon before?
No
JK Rowling was asked a similar question on Twitter:
who is leta lestrange plz i can't live like this
J.K. Rowling: Next movie.
This would seem to imply that she hadn't been previously ment …
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How did MACUSA aurors explain the death of this character (and others) after they cleaned up...
The MACUSA has an entire department devoted to spreading misinformation to muggles no-majs.
Hodag
M.O.M. Classification: XXX
The Hodag is horned, with red, glowing eyes and long fangs, and the …
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Why Didn't MACUSA have the Trace? Or did they?
This appears to have been a plot point dealt with in the original script, but dropped from the final film.
The Lego video game adaptation was recorded with an earlier copy of the script and has the f …
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Why does legilimency seem more powerful than before?
Queenie's talent is inborn, while others had to learn theirs.
Snape says the mind isn't a book to read at leisure. But Queenie seemed to do just that. Love to know more about Legilimency.
J.K. Rowlin …
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Grindelwald was arrested at the end of Fantastic Beasts, so when did Dumbledore fight him?
He escapes in the second movie
The latest from the studio is that, in the new film, Grindelwald will ‘make a dramatic escape’ from MACUSA custody, forcing Albus Dumbledore to join the wizarding world …
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Do we ever see the actual Percival Graves?
According to producer David Heyman, Graves does not appear in the movie and there are no plans for him to appear in future movies either.
SnitchSeeker: Is there a real Graves? what happened to him?
D …
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Who owns the Elder Wand in "Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them"?
We don't know
Rowling has said in an interview that the identity of the current owner would be a spoiler, so we can probably assume Grindelwald doesn't have it during the events of the first film (hi …
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In what ways does the Fantastic Beasts series contradict original canon?
Some of this stuff is hard to say without knowing exactly what's happening in the second movie. There were a lot of ambiguous parts which might not end up playing out the way they look, and future mov …
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Is there a "gun control" style lobby against wands in Harry Potter?
Great Britain
Although there doesn't seem to be much legislation about wand ownership, we do see that people lose the right to bear wands upon getting expelled from Hogwarts, and that other races are …
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Why did the Obscurus target this victim?
It was in resentment for being called a freak.
LANGDON
No, you’re missing a trick here. Just look at the evidence—
SHAW SR.
Really.
SENATOR SHAW
(joining his father and broth …
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Did Newt ever catch his Billywig?
According to director David Yates, it was eaten by a seagull.
SnitchSeeker: What do you think happened to the blue billywig that was flying around New York City? Because it wasn’t actually captured b …
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What did Grindelwald mean when he said this?
The journey ahead will involve sacrifice
SnitchSeeker asked this question to director David Yates and Eddie Redmayne.
What did Grindelwald mean at the end when he told Newt, “Will we die, just a litt …
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Was Newt Scamander at some point the real master of the Elder Wand?
The mastership of the elder wand will be a plot point in later movies
Snitchseeker: The first question, what happened to the Elder wand? Where is it? The elusive Elder wand.
J.K. Rowling Where is it …
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How did Newt know?
Newt had inside information from Dumbeldore
In the new foreword to the 2017 edition of Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them, Newt mentions a popular rumour that he was really a spy for Dumbledore.
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