One of my filthy patrons musta brought Billywigs into The Blind Pig. The whole place is riddled. I'm talking full blown infistation! That stuff is bad for business... Everyone's getting bit and too giddy to spend any dough." — Gnarlak complaining to Newt [src]

Sent by Albus Dumbledore, Newt Scamander went to New York in 1926 to return the Thunderbird. During this time, he came across a philanthropic society aimed at finding and alleviating witches and wizards within the Muggle Community. He also accidentally bumped shoulders with a muggle named Jacob Kowalski and a former Auror named Tina Goldstein. The Flap of the Cape: Tina and Queenie owned a copy of this book while living in an apartment together. Newt is not afraid to show weakness, vulnerability or emotions. He attempts to avoid violence when possible, such as when he consoles the violently disturbed obscurial Credence Barebone by his kind, understanding and sympathetic nature. [1] Newt is praised by his former headmaster Albus Dumbledore for always doing the right thing without seeking power or glory. [48] As of the late 20th century, [29] she lived with her husband in Dorset with their pet Kneazles: Hoppy, Milly, and Mauler. [14] Following her grandson's marriage to Luna Lovegood, Tina became the great-grandmother of twin boys, Lorcan and Lysander. [7]

All of his skills he was able to do non-verbally, indicative of Highly Advanced magical skill. He was fairly competent at things like Apparition, Herbology, and Transfiguration. When Jacob Kowalski suffered ill effects from one of his animals, Newt Scamander was able to whip up a magical treatment immediately. Many of the treatments he knew about, which came from magical flora and fauna or magical creatures, weren’t yet used by the Ministry or considered commonplace until he made them so. Newt Scamander followed the foster child named Credence. Credence had been taken in by the woman in charge of the philanthropic society aimed at alleviating all witches. Tina had been monitoring the group, which led to her getting fired from her position as an author. She had engaged with Credence in the past. Porpentina Esther [1] "Tina" Scamander (née Goldstein) [12] (b. 19 August 1901) [1] was an American half-blood witch. She attended Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where she was sorted into Thunderbird house. After graduating from Ilvermorny, she became an Auror for the Magical Congress of the United States of America. [13] He and Tina retired to Dorset, where they lived with pet kneazles and studied fire slugs in his spare time. He offered another book for younger readers, a children’s anthology of monsters. I mean… the most exciting moment of this job is the moment of getting a wand. The art department comes up with these wand sketches and you just pinch yourself really aggressively and try to have a really cool face when you go: “OK, my wand choice, let’s have a look…”’

Newt was able to leave New York, where he promised Tina that he would deliver his new book to her in person. Unfortunately, he was reprimanded by the Ministry of magic in London for his involvement and was unable to travel internationally. In 1932, Newt Scamander nurses a pregnant Qilin, who births twins. Grindelwald's acolytes kill the mother Qilin and capture one of the twins, whom Grindelwald slaughters to gain precognition. However, Newt saves the younger Qilin twin and keeps him safe. [25] In what is The Wizarding equivalent of the build-up to the Second World War, the group heads to Berlin after agreeing to work with Dumbledore to infiltrate Gerald Grindelwald and stop him. Who is Leta Lestrange? 'Fantastic Beasts' Is Only The Start For The New Character, Says Director David Yates". Bustle. 18 November 2016 . Retrieved 2022-04-18. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them': 43 Things to Know about the New Wizarding World Story" from ColliderBody for Protection of Magical Species · Department of Aurors · Department of Magical Law Enforcement · Department of No-Maj Misinformation · Department of Unidentifiable Magical Objects · Department for Confiscated Items · Federal Bureau of Covert Vigilance and No-Maj Obliviation · MACUSA Communications Department · MACUSA Investigation Department · MACUSA Surveillance Wizarding Resources Department · Magical Cleaning Department · Major Investigation Department · Office for Magic Relations and Education · US Auror Divisions · Wand Permit Department · Wizarding Resources Department Esther may come from the eponymous heroine of the Book of Esther, a Jewish queen whose story of thwarting the genocide of her people is the basis of the celebration of Purim in Jewish tradition. The name has several proposed origins, including the Median word astra,meaning "myrtle" (which would match Esther's Hebrew name, Hadassah, which shares this meaning); the Persian word setareh, meaning "star" (as Esther was said to be "as beautiful as the Morning Star", aka the planet Venus, named after the Roman goddess of love); or a derivation of Ishtar, an ancient Mesopotamian goddess associated with love, beauty, sex, desire, fertility, war, justice, and political power. The name's root letters in Hebrew mean "hide" or "conceal", with their passive form meaning "to be hidden". Duelling: As an Auror, Tina was a highly skilled duellist, since she swiftly magically restrained the very powerful fellow Auror Theseus Scamander, though she notably caught him off-guard; and before hand, even without looking, Tina was able to neutralise Theseus' attempt to thwart her and Newt's fleeing from him by magically flinging sealed documents and ledgers their way. Later, Tina helped break up a rally of Gellert Grindelwald's acolytes. Indeed, Tina's skills were enough for her to temporarily hold her own against a wizard of Percival Graves' calibre (shown when she duelled Gellert Grindelwald while the latter was disguised as Graves, and suppressing his abilities enough), managing to dodge the car hurled toward her, but was ultimately defeated. Later on, when Grindelwald fought at full capability, Tina, even alongside Theseus and Newt, both very proficient duellists, was still considerably outclassed, and would have been killed easily had Leta Lestrange not interfered. a b Erao, Matthew (10 December 2016). "Harry Potter: 15 Things You Didn't Know About Newt Scamander". Screenrant. Helen O'Hara (17 November 2016). "Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them". Empire . Retrieved 2022-06-09.

Jasmine (2022-04-20). "Things The Fantastic Beasts Franchise Does Much Better Than Harry Potter". Looper.com . Retrieved 2022-06-09.Wand: Tina's wand was of an unknown length, with an unknown wand wood and core. Her wand appeared to be rather plain and practical in design, compared to the more colourful and grand designs of other wands. Born in England [8] on 24 February 1897, [9] Newt Scamander developed interest towards magical beasts and creatures from a young age as his mother bred hippogriffs. Sorted into Hufflepuff at Hogwarts at the age of eleven, [8] Newt develops a close friendship with a Slytherin girl named Leta Lestrange, who is in the same year as him and shares both his interest in magical beasts and his inferiority complex due to being an outsider. Newt and Leta explore magical creatures together and enjoy each other's company, gradually falling in love. One of Leta's experiment involving a Jarvey accidentally endangers human life. Newt takes the blame for Leta's actions and is expelled from Hogwarts instead of her. [10] Therefore, Newt turns bitter towards Leta but still remains much in love with her. [11] Albus Dumbledore, Newt's Defence Against the Dark Arts professor at that time, strongly argues on his beloved student's behalf. Newt is still expelled but is allowed to keep his wand because of Dumbledore's influence. Newt Scamander’s parents were pure blood. We know his mother bred hippogriffs, but nothing is known about his parents other than they were both wizards and witches. Newt Scamander Physical Traits Newt helped him up, and Jacob went to the bank. The confusion around Scamander caught Mary Lou's attention. Unaware that Newt was a wizard, Mary Lou spoke directly to him, asking if he was a seeker of truth, to which Newt replied that he was a more of a chaser. When she asked him if he was ready to follow her and her organisation, Newt noticed that Teddy, the Niffler escaped from his suitcase, so he moved to the bank, with Tina following him out of curiosity. Fantastic Beasts 3: Why does Jacob Kowalski have a wand?". The Digital Fix. 10 April 2022 . Retrieved 2022-04-19.

When Eddie Redmayne chose Newt Scamander's wand | Wizarding World". www.wizardingworld.com . Retrieved 2022-04-22. Newt Scamander was only mentioned in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone as the author of the book Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, which was used as a textbook for Care of Magical Creatures by Harry Potter and his classmates. In 2001, J. K. Rowling wrote a real-version of fictional textbook under the pseudonym "Newt Scamander". In the film series inspired by the book, Newt Scamander is the main character and is portrayed by Eddie Redmayne.

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Katherine Waterston was around ten years older than her role when she played Porpentina in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The group can thwart Grindelwald and prevent him from killing Credence or taking complete power, but then magically, Grindelwald just, effectively, floats away, and no one thinks to try and stop him, setting up for what will no doubt be yet another filler film. It would take months to contradict every other wild assertion in Ms Skeeter's book... it is true that I was the first person ever to capture Gellert Grindelwald, and also true that Albus Dumbledore was something more than a schoolteacher to me. More than this, I cannot say, without fear of breaching the Official Magical Secrets Act or, more importantly, the confidences that Dumbledore, most private of men, placed in me." — Newt Scamander describing his trip to America [src] When shreds of Credence's Obscurus form fled the scene, Graves went on a rant in which Newt deduced who he really was. With the help of the Swooping Evil and Tina, Newt captured Graves and revealed that he was none other than famous Dark wizard and international criminal, Gellert Grindelwald, using Human Transfiguration to assume the identity of MACUSA's employee. [30] While being apprehended by Aurors, Grindelwald met Newt's gaze and mysteriously asked him: "Will we die, just a little?". It becomes apparent that a creature is killing in the city, causing mayhem, and killing Senator Henry Shaw Jr. Even though Newt and his creatures were blamed, the group managed to escape what should have been imprisonment and subsequent death. Newt Scamander recognized the presence of an obscured in America and decided he would apply the skills he acquired in Sudan to try and help the poor child.