Scamander family

Scamander is the surname of a wizarding family. Many of its members have worked as magizoologists. They are related to the Lovegood family. The family had ties to the Magical Congress of the United States of America, through Newt Scamander's marriage to American Auror Porpentina Goldstein.

Recent family history
The mother of Newt and Theseus Scamander bred hippogriffs for a living and helped to inspire her son's lifelong interest in magical creatures.

Theseus Scamander worked as an Auror with the British Ministry of Magic, being described as a powerful wizard. He participated in the wizarding effort in the First World War, and afterward was considered a war hero.

Newton Scamander,  O.M. (Second Class), was born in in 1897. He was a famed Magizoologist and author of . Early in life, Scamander developed an interest in magical Creatures, influenced by his mother's breeding of hippogriffs. He attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where he was Sorted into Hufflepuff House, and was later expelled. Newt would go on to marry Porpentina Goldstein, an American witch and together they had a least one son.

The Scamander family were "not impressed" by Newt's career in Magizoology.

Rolf Scamander Newt's grandson married Luna Lovegood sometime after the Second Wizarding War. Together they had twin sons, Lorcan and Lysander.

Etymology
In Greek mythology, Scamander was a river god who fought for Troy during the Trojan War. He was also considered a personification of the Scamander River, along the lower plains of which the battles of the Trojan War were fought, according to The Iliad. The river is now called Karamenderes and flows through the Turkish province of Çanakkale. It is also the name of a town and a river in Tasmania.

Notes and references
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