Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Warning! At least some content in this article is derived from information featured in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald and Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery. As such, spoilers will be present within the article.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a book written by Newt Scamander detailing the field of Magizoology, the study of magical creatures. It was a standard textbook at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry since it was written in 1927.^[1]

A copy of this book cost two Galleons at Flourish and Blotts.^[2]

History

The book was first released in early 1927, and a book launch was held on 19 March 1927 at Flourish and Blotts at seven o'clock.^[3]

Chapters

• Introduction
  • About This Book
  • What Is a Beast?
  • A Brief History of Muggle Awareness of Fantastic Beasts
  • Magical Beasts in Hiding
    • Safe Habitats
    • Controls on Selling and Breeding
    • Disillusionment Charms
    • Memory Charms
    • The Office of Misinformation
  • Why Magizoology Matters
  • Ministry of Magic Classifications
• An A-Z of Fantastic Beasts
  

Beasts included in the book

Behind the scenes

• A real version of the book was written by J. K. Rowling to raise money for the Comic Relief charity in 2001.
• Some creatures are missing from the book. There is no entry on cockatrices, hydras, or three-headed dogs. The Zouwu is also missing, even though Newt is known to have encountered one of these, in 1927. This can be explained, however, as Newt Scamander never intended the book to be a complete guide of all magical creatures, but an introduction to the variety of Magizoology.
• It is unknown why this book was required for Harry Potter to get in his First Year (1991–1992 school year) since he did not start Care of Magical Creatures until the Third Year (1993–1994 school year). As in the real world version of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Dumbledore states it is required for Care of Magical Creatures. Though, it is possible it was required for Defence Against the Dark Arts. Harry's copy is protected by the Thief's Curse.
• A listing for the book on Scholastic's Harry Potter site gives the price as 14 Sickles and 3 Knuts.^[4]

Appearances

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First mentioned)
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)^[5] (First appearance)
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game) (Mentioned only on a Famous Wizard Card)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game) (Mentioned only on a Famous Wizard Card)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Mentioned only)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Mentioned only)
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film) (Mentioned only)
• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
• Pottermore
• Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
• The Archive of Magic: The Film Wizardry of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Notes and references

Care of Magical Creatures
Care of Magical Creatures at Hogwarts
Hagrid's Hut · Forbidden Forest · Care of Magical Creatures classroom · Magical Creatures (club)
Professors	Silvanus Kettleburn · Rubeus Hagrid · Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank (substitute teacher)
Textbooks	The Monster Book of Monsters · Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Creatures studied at Hogwarts
Blast-Ended Skrewt · Bowtruckle · Chimaera · Crup · Diricawl · Fairy · Fire Crab · Flobberworm · Glumbumble · Hippogriff · Knarl · Kneazle · Murtlap · Niffler · Porlock · Fire Dwelling Salamander · Streeler · Thestral · Unicorn