The Fantastic Beasts franchise adds new entries and addenda to Potter lore, and new branches to old family trees, at a genuinely confusing rate. So it may be unsurprising that the movie series, while ostensibly following the book-within-a-book’s author, Newt Scamander, feels like an encyclopedia. The original Fantastic Beasts book was a miniature paperback (written in 2001 as part of a charity drive) that’s supposed to mimic a Hogwarts textbook. But they’re hardly self-contained, existing mostly to fill out an ever-expanding legendarium. Yes, the stories aren’t specifically related to the heroic arc of Harry Potter. Five years later, upon the release of the follow-up movie Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, it might be fair to quibble with Rowling’s initial claim a little. Rowling first announced in 2013 that she was working on a film adaptation of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, she called it an “original story.” That is, it would be “neither a prequel nor a sequel to the Harry Potter series,” taking place 70 years before her original books. This article contains major spoilers for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.
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