Newt was also in the cupboard nursing a raven chick. Their close friendship began in 1910 when, at age 13, Leta ran away from bullies and Professor McGonagall and hid in a cupboard. He developed a friendship with Leta Lestrange, a fellow student who shared both his interest in magical beasts, as well as his feelings of being an outsider.

During his time at Hogwarts, he enjoyed studying magical creatures. Hogwarts years (1908–1913?)īefore beginning education at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Newt purchased his first wand, likely from Ollivanders, and was sorted into Hufflepuff on 1 September 1908. Scamander would regularly dismember Horklumps in his bedroom at age seven. He developed an interest in magical creatures at an early age, as his mother was a breeder of Hippogriffs. He had at least one sibling, an older brother, Theseus Scamander. Newton Artemis Fido 'Newt' Scamander was born on 24 February 1897 somewhere in England.

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1.4.4 Obscurial attack on New York City.

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By the beginning of the 1990s, he was retired and living in Dorset. He married Goldstein and they had at least one child. He became heavily involved in the global wizarding war, where he bonded with Porpentina Goldstein and defied Gellert Grindelwald on three different occasions. The book became a best-seller, making Scamander a respected expert in the field of Magizoology. In 1918 he was commissioned by Augustus Worme of Obscurus Books to write Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Scamander joined the Ministry of Magic, spending two years in the Office for House-Elf Relocation before joining the Beast Division. 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.

He attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where he was sorted into Hufflepuff House.

Early in life, Scamander developed an interest in magical creatures, influenced by his mother's breeding of Hippogriffs. 24 February 1897) was an English wizard, famed Magizoologist and the author of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Newton Artemis Fido 'Newt' Scamander, O.M. ' I have visited lairs, burrows and nests across five continents, observed the curious habits of magical beasts in a hundred countries, witnessed their powers, gained their trust and, on occasion, beaten them off with my travelling kettle.' - Newton Scamander's foreword in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

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