On 16 December 1926, Porpentina Goldstein named this book before saying goodbye to him before he headed back to London.

In 1918, Obscurus Books commissioned Newton Scamander to write Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

(L-R): Bunty, Newt, Leta, and Theseus at the launch party held in Flourish and Blotts Ī copy of this book cost two Galleons at Flourish and Blotts. By 1932, Eulalie Hicks also set this book as a required textbook for all her fifth year students at Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It was a standard textbook at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry since it was written in 1927. No wizarding household is complete without a copy of Fantastic Beasts, well thumbed by the generations who have riffled its pages in search of the best way to rid the lawn of Horklumps, interpret the mournful cries of the Augurey, or cure their pet Puffskein of drinking out of the toilet.' - Albus Dumbledore įantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was a book written by Newt Scamander and titled by Porpentina Goldstein, detailing the field of Magizoology, the study of magical creatures. ' Newt's masterpiece had been an approved textbook at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry ever since its publication and must take a substantial amount of credit for our students' consistently high results in Care of Magical Creatures examinations - yet it is not a book to be confined to the classroom.

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