Category "fantastic-beasts-where-to-find-them"

Is Fantastic Beasts a prequel to Harry Potter?

So Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is another Harry Potter universe movie coming up this year. The movie is based on a different era, 70 years before th

Is Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them understandable without watching any other Harry Potter film?

I am planning to watch Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and asking this question in place of a friend who might give me company. But he has not seen any

How does Percival Graves use magic without his wand in Fantastic Beasts?

In Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, we can see Percival Graves use magical abilities (mainly telekinetic) that we would typically associate with wands,

Why are portkeys not used for long-distance travel?

The beginning of Newt Scamander's story includes him arriving on America's shore by boat. My understanding from the Harry Potter world is that long-distance tra

What is the magical wasp that Newt notices several times in New York City?

In Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, after arriving in New York City (and I think only after his collection of magical creatures escapes his suitcase), N

Why does Graves want him dead?

In Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them MACUSA captures Newt and Goldstein and, accusing them of being responsible for the death of Senator Shaw, Graves orde

Is Percival Graves using the Elder Wand in Fantastic Beasts?

At the end of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, we find out that Percival Graves = Gellert Grindelwald We also know that Grindelwald had the Elder

How did Newt Scamander realize "someone's" real identity?

In Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Newt restrains Graves' movements with one of his friendly beasts and then proceeds to use the Revelio spell to... (s

What are all the magical creatures/Beasts in Newt Scamander's suitcase?

In Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), Newt Scamander has various Beasts, or we can say magical creatures, in his suitcase. Some appear quite briefl

Are there any more movies announced after Fantastic Beasts?

I just saw Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them and was not expecting to see Johnny Depp playing Gellert Grindelwald. I would be surprised that such a

What is the logic behind the execution procedure in Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them?

The process of execution as shown in Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, looks very complicated. First, they put in a happy memory in the liquid-thingy bel

Why was Frank necessary?

Slight spoilers below At the end of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Newt releases Frank to distribute the Swooping Evil's venom as a mass Obliviation

What does the first scene in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them mean?

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them starts with a dark scene with some wizards. I was unable to make a connection between this scene and the rest of the fil

Is it possible that Jacob retained his memories?

The last scene of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them shows us that Jacob, who is meant to have lost his memory of the magical world, is baking goods in the

How did the Swooping Evil Venom infused rain affect the magical community?

I didn't see any wizards drenched in the rain at the end of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (don't recall, actually). But would the rain equally affect

Why didn't more beasts escape when Newt's suitcase was open?

We see that when Jacob opens the Newt's suitcase in Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them some beasts escaped, few beasts compared to the amount that he has in

Why was the Obscurus in Newt's case staying in a snowscape?

Why was the Obscurus in Newt's case in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them staying in a snowscape? All the other creatures were more or less in their natura

Did he allow Newt to catch him?

From everything that we know in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Gellert Grindelwald is smart, devious, and evil. When he was captured after the obscur

Why did Jacob need to walk into the rain to get his memory erased?

At the end of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Newt helps to obliviate all No-majs by using Swooping evil's venom. Somehow, I don't understand why Jacob

Did wizards participate in the First World War?

In the Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them film, it is mentionned that Newt Scamander's brother, Theseus, is a war hero. In another part, as Jacob meets wiz