Initially, Newt Scamander was only mentioned in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone as the author of the book Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, which was used as a textbook for Care of Magical Creatures by Harry Potter and his classmates.
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Newton Artemis Fido "Newt" Scamander was a character in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J.K. Rowling. He was very briefly mentioned in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Newton Scamander was the pen name of Rowling when she wrote Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them for charity.
Newt Scamandar is just a few years younger than Albus Dumbledore. He is not a contemporary of Harry and his friends. In the books he is mentioned only as the author of a textbook, and he never appears as a guest lecturer, let alone a teacher. So there is no need for him to be in any of the Harry Potter movies.
So yes, Dumbledore does mention Newt, though not in a way that implies they had known each other before his writing the foreword. “I WAS DEEPLY HONOURED when Newt Scamander asked me to write the foreword for this very special edition of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.”
Despite the fact that Newt is still alive during the Harry Potter series, he never meets Harry (and thus readers never see him) because his life does not intersect with Harry's. Newt would have most likely already retired by the time Harry was introduced to the wizarding world.
Scamander ended up at Hogwarts after his travels across five continents to study, collect, and protect fantastic beasts. So it's altogether possible that a younger Hagrid met a middle-aged Scamander at Hogwarts in the '40s.
He's Luna Lovegood's grandfather-in-law
Newt's full name is Newton Artemis Fido Scamander.
You'd have to have the lamp-like eyes of Filch's cat Mrs Norris to spot this one: Newt Scamander actually appears in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and not just as a name on a textbook.
Initially, Newt Scamander was only mentioned in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone as the author of the book Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, which was used as a textbook for Care of Magical Creatures by Harry Potter and his classmates.
It's because he doesn't trust himself not to be tempted by power. Dumbledore admires people like Harry and Newt because he strives to be more like them. He struggles with the idea of power, while they do not.
No, Newt Scamander is not Hagrid's father.
Since that time, it has been discounted as a symptom of autism rather than its distinct disorder. The writer of the Fantastic Beasts series, J.K. Rowling has never publicly stated that Newt has autism or was written to be autistic.
Since the map shows the location of every single person at Hogwarts at the given time, that means Newt Scamander was somewhere on the grounds at the school during that time. So, even though he wasn't featured on screen.
Newt believed that magical creatures were not dangerous if treated with respect, and Buckbeak only attacked Malfoy when he disrespected him. Due to this, Newt would have gladly traveled to Hogwarts to defend Buckbeak and try to prevent his execution, causing him to appear on the Marauder's Map.
The name Gellert Grindelwald only appears in the archives later – in the first volume of the Harry Potter series where he is mentioned only briefly on the back of Albus Dumbledore's chocolate frog card.
Newton Artemis Fido "Newt" Scamander is a half-blood or pure blood wizard who is a framed magizoologist and the main protagonist of the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them franchise.
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore confirmed that Credence Barebone/Aurelius Dumbledore (Ezra Miller) is the new Snape (Alan Rickman) through a very familiar line delivered by Aberforth Dumbledore (Richard Coyle).
No. Snape was born in 1960. Fantastic Beasts 3 take place in 1932 (or if Kowalski is right, 1927).
Eddie Redmayne himself has said in interviews that he feels that Newt probably has Asperger's syndrome based on how JK Rowling described Newt's mannerisms to him, but would have unlikely been diagnosed as the films take place in the 1920's long before Kanner and Asperger first published their work on autism.
Though Newt is still alive during the Harry Potter series, he never meets Harry (and therefore readers never encounter him in person) because his life doesn't really intersect with Harry's. At the time Harry was introduced to the wizarding world, Newt would've presumably already retired.
He attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where he was sorted into Hufflepuff House. While at Hogwarts he was sentenced to expulsion, though Albus Dumbledore, who had been his Defence Against the Dark Arts instructor, recognised his innocence, and objected strongly.
We are sure that Hufflepuffs the world over rejoiced in jubilation when Newt Scamander opened his suitcase to reveal a cheerful, yellow Hufflepuff scarf. Here's how the hero of Fantastic Beasts perfectly represents his Hogwarts house.
Queenie Malfoy (born 2015) is the youngest child of Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy.
There's only one answer, and it's that the Kelpie is Newt's Patronus. A Kelpie is a shape-shifting beast that lives within water. It is not to be approached by humans — unless they want to be eaten. Newt documented the Kelpie in his hit book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
He is quiet, has difficulty making eye contact, and is very focused on his career as a magizoologist. Actor Eddie Redmayne, who will once again play Scamander in Secrets, stated in a 2018 interview with Digital Spy that he believes the character has Asperger's.