Man or Monster? The TRUTH about Newt Scamander

'Man or Monster? The TRUTH about Newt Scamander' was a biography written by Rita Skeeter about Newton Scamander. In it, she claims that Scamander was never a Magizoologist, but rather this was a cover story allowing him to infiltrate the Magical Congress of the United States of America at the behest of Albus Dumbledore.

In his forward to the 2017 edition of his textbook, Scamander doesn't directly refute this claim, but notes the absurdity of using Magizoology as a cover in the 1920s given the hostility many witches and wizards felt for magical beasts.