Figures from the Fantastic Beasts series

This article describes important characters in the Fantastic Beasts series by Joanne K. Rowling and thus the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them , its sequels and the accompanying short story collection The History of Magic in North America , which also includes the later published stories to be counted at Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and Magical Congress of the United States of America . For the first film, the booklet called Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - The Original Screenplay was also released , which contains the complete script of the film and introduces the fantastic animals and characters it contains. Other characters are mentioned in the mobile game Fantastic Beasts: Cases From The Wizarding World , which was published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment .

In addition to this article, which covers the characters, there is another article that describes the terms and locations of the Fantastic Beasts series in more detail.

Witches and wizards

Newt Scamander

The eccentric and introverted wizard and expert in magical animals was born as Newton Artemis Fido Scamander on February 24, 1897, belonged to the Hufflepuff house at Hogwarts and met Albus Dumbledore there, who was very fond of him. However, Newt was later expelled from school because of the threat to human life from an animal. It was Leta Lestrange's doing, but Newt had taken the blame for it. Even the use of Dumbledore, who was teaching at Hogwarts as a young teacher at the time, could not prevent his expulsion.

From then on, he travels the world in search of magical animals, always accompanied by a suitcase in need of repair, which has a special Muggle-friendly lock so that they do not discover his animal beings. At the age of 29, the magizoologist traveled to New York and met a number of people who not only supported him in his research and hunting for animals, but also played an important role in his later life, including the No-Maj Jacob Kowalski and the two witch sisters Tina and Queenie Goldstein. From the documents about magical animals collected during his travels, he created his book Fantastic Beasts , which will become the standard work on magical animals and which Harry Potter will read in school 70 years later . Newt is more comfortable with his beasts and creatures than with other people. Newt's brother Theseus Scamander was a war hero and worked as an auror for the London-based Ministry of Magic. Newt Scamander is still alive today.

MACUSA staff

Emily Rappaport

Emily Rappaport was the fifteenth president of MACUSA and in 1790 passed the Rappaport's law , later named after her , which aimed at the strict separation between the magical community and the no-maj society.

Seraphina Picquery

Madam Seraphina Picquery, an extraordinarily gifted witch from Savannah , is the President of MACUSA from 1920 to 1928 . Seraphina Picquery was the first student in a long time to be offered a place in all four houses of the school at the assignment ceremony in Ilvermorny , and she chose the Horned Snake house.

Porpentina Goldstein

A native of the United States, Newt Scamander met Newt Scamander in New York in 1926. She is very down to earth and practical. She is also called Tina by her friends and family. She is a distant relative of Anthony Goldstein, who belongs to the Ravenclaw family and joins Dumbledore's army in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix . Like her sister Queenie, she attended the American Magic School Ilvermorny and was a member of the Thunderbird family. An ambitious collaborator and former auror for MACUSA , Tina was thrown into jobs well below her ability after she attacked Mary Lou Barebone, the leader of the Second Salemer, a witch-hunt organization. Like her sister Queenie Goldstein , Tina works in the MACUSA's wand licensing office, where she does a lowly desk job. Fortunately, in the end she is promoted back to Auror. She shares an apartment with her in a sandstone house at 679 West 24th Street in New York, but later moves to England with him after her marriage to Newt.

Queenie Goldstein

Queenie Goldstein is Tina Goldstein's younger sister and lives with her in a sandstone house at 679 West 24th Street in New York. Like her sister, Queenie works in MACUSA's wand licensing office, where she does a lowly desk job. Queenie can read minds (Legilimentik) and is a generous free spirit. She later becomes Newt Scamander's sister-in-law.

Percival Graves

A wizard Newt Scamander meets while traveling around New York. The influential Auror of MACUSA is the right-hand man of the President of the American Wizarding World, Seraphina Picquery . Percival Graves headed MACUSA's Magical Law Enforcement Division in the 1920s. He is a direct descendant of Gondulphus Graves , who was one of the first twelve Aurors Josiah Jackson recruited. While Mary Lou Barebone, the fanatical leader of the Second Salemers, is fueling the mood against the magical world of New York, Percival Graves tries to get information about a young, very powerful witch who he suspects to be in New York through her adopted son Credence . Nobody knows of the troubled young man that he is a wizard, but Percival Graves is not who he claims to be either.

Adrian Tutley

Adrian Tutley was a wizard and animagus who could transform into a gerbil .

Babajide Akingbade

Babajide Akingbade, is a former student of the Uagadou Magic School in Uganda and later supported Albus Dumbledore in the International Wizarding Association as Supreme Mugwump.

Josiah Jackson

Josiah Jackson was the first President of MACUSA after it was founded in 1693. Jackson's top priority was the prompt recruitment and training of Aurors .

Charity Wilkinson

Charity Wilkinson was the third president of MACUSA. Wilkinson was also one of the first twelve Aurors Josiah Jackson had recruited.

Thornton Harkaway

Thornton Harkaway was President of MACUSA around 1760. He moved the MACUSA to Williamsburg, Virginia, but was dismissed from office after violating the confidentiality agreement.

Elizabeth McGilliguddy

Elizabeth McGilliguddy was the President of MACUSA around 1777.

Able Fleming

Able Fleming was a President of MACUSA when it was in Baltimore.

Gondulphus Graves

Gondulphus Graves was one of the first twelve Aurors that Josiah Jackson had recruited. A direct descendant of his is Percival Graves , who later also works as an auror for MACUSA.

Abraham Potter

Abraham Potter was one of the first twelve Aurors that Josiah Jackson had recruited. Abraham Potter is a distant relative of Harry Potter .

Irene Kneedander

Irene Kneedander was the former chairman of the Committee on the Protection of Magical Humanoid Species and was later blamed for the Sasquatch Rebellion .

Wand maker

Shikoba Wolfe

Shikoba Wolfe comes from the Choctaw people and was famous for their intricately carved wands. Their core consisted of the tail feathers of the thunderbird . Their wands were considered extremely demanding to use, but they were also extremely powerful.

Johannes Jonker

Johannes Jonker is a Muggle-born wizard whose No Maj father was a skilled cabinet maker. Jonker himself was later gifted wand maker whose wands were extremely sought after and have to recognize at first glance because they usually with mother of pearl - inlaid were decorated.

Thiago Quintana

Thiago Quintana was known in the magical world for his sleek, usually very long wands. Quintana alone knew how to lure a White River monster with its transparent spine-like thorns worked into the core of the wands.

Violetta Beauvais

Violetta Beauvais is a legendary wand maker from New Orleans . For many years she did not want to reveal the secret of the core of her wands.

Heads of magic schools

Isolt Sayre

Isolt Sayre is the daughter of William Sayre and was the founder of the American Magic School Ilvermorny and its first director. Isolt Sayre was born into two pure-blood wizarding families around 1603 and spent her earliest childhood in a valley in County Kerry , Ireland . Her father nicknamed her Morrigan as a child because of her affinity for all natural things. When Isolt was five years old, her parents were killed in the fire in the house in which she was born. Isolt was saved from the fire by Gormlaith Gaunt. Isolt later had to realize that her alleged rescuer had actually started the fire herself.

Gormlaith then pulled them up, hidden from humans by dark magic. When Isolt reached the age of attending a wizarding school, Gormlaith refused to go to Hogwarts when she received an invitation from there because she considered the school to be an egalitarian institution full of mudbloods and therefore dangerous for Isolt. After all, she taught Isolt herself. The girl still dreamed of Hogwarts. When Isolt was 17 years old, she was able to escape from her captivity, went to England for a short time, and then in 1620 with short haircut under the name Elias Story with the Mayflower set out for the New World . Isolt found few friends among the other passengers, who were mostly Puritans. Having arrived in North America, Isolt quickly realizes that there are magical beings here too. So Isolt took in a Pukwudgie who was injured and nursed him back to health. Isolt gave him the name William , which her late father had also borne.

Isolt later founded North America's first magic school in the stone house where she lived with her new family. In order to enable Chadwick and Webster Boot , two boys who she and her future husband James had taken in, to receive a magical education, her home was henceforth called Ilvermorny . This was also the name of the hut in which she was born, but which was later destroyed by Gormlaith. After the word got around that Isolt was teaching magic here, a number of magically gifted children of the natives and many children of the settlers who immigrated from Europe gradually became their students. Isolt and James later married and had twins Martha and Rionach , only the latter inheriting their magical abilities.

Isolt Sayre was over 100 years old. Every year on the anniversary of her death, buttercups are found on her grave.

Benedita Dourado

Benedita Dourado is the director of the Castelobruxo Magic School in Brazil.

More witches and wizards

Credence barebones

Credence is the mysterious adopted son of Mary Lou , whom he is ostracized. Credence is easy to manipulate when he is tracked down in the streets of New York by the auror Percival Graves , who then takes the troubled young man under his wing. Credence is a very powerful wizard, but by suppressing his magic all his life, an obscurus developed , a being of dark, uncontrollable energy that terrified the people of New York in 1926. It is later revealed that Credence is the missing brother of Albus Dumbledore. His real name is Aurelius Dumbledore.

Modesty barebones

Modesty is, as her name suggests, a modest, spirited young girl of particular strength and calm. She has special empathic skills and can look deeply into people and understand them. She is the youngest adoptive child of Mary Lou Barebone and the adoptive sister of Credence and Chastity Barebone.

Aristotle Twelve Tree

Aristotle Twelve Tree (Aristotle Twelvetrees) is a wizard who served as the Dragot's keeper during the presidency of Emily Rappaport in the late 18th century .

Dorcus Twelve Tree

Dorcus Zwölfbaum (Dorcus Twelvetrees) is the daughter of Aristotle Zwölfbaum. Her betrayal of the addresses of MACUSA and the Ilvermorny School at the end of the 18th century had far-reaching consequences for the American magical world.

Theophilus Abbot

Theophilus Abbot is a magic historian.

Gormlaith Gaunt

Gormlaith Gaunt was a descendant of Morrigan and Salazar Slytherin , which is why she spoke Parseltongue and was therefore understood by snakes. Gormlaith was a fanatical pure-blood and believed her sister, through her dealings with Muggle neighbors, was leading her daughter Isolt on a dangerous path, who could then possibly marry a non-wizard. To prevent this, Gormlaith set the house of her sister and her husband William Sayre on fire, in which both were killed. The daughter, on the other hand, saved her and raised her, hidden from other people by magic, in order to lead Isolt back onto the right path. Gormlaith was killed in a fight by the Pukwudgie William.

Chadwick boat

Chadwick Boot is a boy who was rescued by Isolt Sayre and taken in by her and her future husband James in Ilvermorny. Chadwick became an accomplished and well-traveled magician and wrote the books Chadwick's Charms, Volumes I-VII , which are still read as standard texts in Ilvermorny to this day. He later married Josefina Calderon, and the Calderon-Boot family is still considered one of the most famous magical families in America to this day.

Webster boat

Like his brother Chadwick, Webster Boot was rescued by Isolt Sayre. Like his brother, he defended his new home Ilvermorny in the attack by Gormlaith Gaunt. Webster later became a freelance Auror because of the lack of jurisdiction and laws for wizards in North America at the time. While in London, Webster met a Scottish witch who worked there in the Ministry of Magic.

Rionach steward

Rionach Steward is the daughter of James Steward and Isolt Sayre and, as the second born, in contrast to her twin sister Martha, inherited the magical abilities of her mother, the founder of Ilvermorny , where she was trained in the arts of magic by her mother, together with Chadwick and Webster. Rionach was later one of the first teachers of Ilvermorny herself and taught Defense Against the Dark Arts there for many years. When she was a child, Ilvermorny was attacked by the witch Gormlaith Gaunt . With their screams, Rionach and her sister awakened their mother from a magical sleep, which made Isolt aware of the danger. Rionach got her name in memory of her late grandmother, her mother's mother.

Morrigan

Morrigan was a famous Irish witch. Her direct descendants include Gormlaith Gaunt, William Sayre and his daughter Isolt, both of whom were also born in Ireland, and Isolt's daughters Rionach and Martha Steward, who were born in America.

Gellert Grindelwald

Gellert Grindelwald was notorious as the most evil wizard in the wizarding world before Lord Voldemort appeared . The black magician was first in a very close relationship with Albus Dumbledore. In the 1920s, Gellert Grindelwald made headlines in the American media for his crimes. It was reported in the New York Ghost that the International Magic Community had intensified its search for Grindelwald. When Newt Scamander is in New York, Seraphina Picquery , President of MACUSA, suspects that the events in the city are also connected to Grindelwald's attacks in Europe. Then in 1945 Dumbledore finally defeated him.

Leta Lestrange

Leta Lestrange was Newt Scamander's former love, and she still had some kind of power over him afterwards. Leta is a tragic figure and a rather complicated person.

Theseus Scamander

Newt Scamander's older brother is a war hero and works as an Auror for the London-based Ministry of Magic.

Nicolas Flamel

Nicolas Flamel's tombstone

Nicolas Flamel is a respected alchemist who made the Philosopher's Stone and who, together with Albus Dumbledore, wrote a standard work on alchemy. In the 14th and 15th centuries, Flamel worked in Paris and there are numerous legends surrounding him. This is how he is said to have discovered eternal life. He achieved fame posthumously as an alchemist. Legend has it that he found the philosopher's stone and achieved immortality. He gained his reputation as an alchemist in particular because one could not explain his wealth during his lifetime.

Eulalie Hicks

Professor Eulalie Hicks, nicknamed “Lally”, is a teacher at the Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Other magical beings

The Pukwudgie William

William was or is - it is not exactly known whether he is still alive - a Pukwudgie who was nursed back to health by Isolt Sayre . Isolt named him William in memory of her late father. William later showed his gratitude by saving her family when they were attacked by Gormlaith Gaunt. William killed Gormlaith with one of his poison arrows. Ultimately, William moved with his own family to Ilvermorny and took over the security service of the magic school there, because he did not trust people to protect themselves.

The goblin gangster Gnarlack

Gnarlack is a goblin gangster who ran a speakeasy for guests of New York's magical community in Greenwich Village in the 1920s during Prohibition in the United States . He is approached by Newt Scamander when he needs information.

Individual beasts

Frank

Frank is a thunderbird Newt Scamander came to America with to bring him back to his natural habitat, Arizona . Newt saved him from the clutches of traders in Egypt, which is why Frank trusts him.

Pickett

Pickett is one of Newt Scamander's Bowtruckles whom he keeps as pets and who accompany him on his travels. Scamander's other bowtruckles are named Titus, Finn, Poppy, Marlow, and Tom.

Dougal

Dougal is Newt's demiguise who escapes from his suitcase while in New York.

No-majs

Jacob Kowalski

Jacob Kowalski is a No-Maj friend of Newt Scamander who accompanies him on his adventures in New York. He and Jacob meet in December 1926 at the Steen National Bank , where Newt's Niffler is lost and he gets his hands on a silver Occamy egg from the magizoologist because the two accidentally swapped their suitcases in front of the bank. The optimistic former soldier and current factory worker learns the bakery trade, dreams of opening his own bakery and discovers a completely new world after meeting Newt and other magicians. Jan Kowalski, a Polish nobleman, is a relative of Jacob.

Henry Shaw Sr.

Henry Shaw Sr. is a newspaper magnate. His son Henry Shaw Jr. is a New York Senator in the 1920s. He dies during a speech after being attacked by a magical being.

Mary Lou Barebone

Mary Lou Barebone is the narrow-minded leader of the fanatical Second Salemers , a group that tries to track down and destroy witches and wizards. Mary Lou appears in an election campaign in New York as a demagogue and seeks a politics of divide and rule . She is the adoptive mother of Credence , who she is killed by after years of mistreating the boy.

James Steward

James Steward was a no-maj whom Isolt Sayre had revealed when he was a young man that she was a witch. He helped her nurse the brothers Chadwick and Webster Boot to health and later fell in love with Isolt. Despite his initial reservations about magic, James married the then young witch and they had children of their own. Of the twins Martha, named after James' late mother, and Rionach, named after the name of Isolt's mother, only one inherited their mother's magical abilities. James lived to be over 100 years old.

Descendants of wizards and witches who are not magically gifted

Bartholomew barebones

Bartholomew Barebone is a no-maj and the descendant of a cleaner . Barebone found out the secret addresses of the MACUSA and the Ilvermorny School and then set about tracking all witches and wizards in the vicinity and, if possible, killing them together with his friends. However, Bartholomew was arrested shortly afterwards and imprisoned for his crime.

Martha Steward

Martha Steward is the daughter of James Steward and Isolt Sayre and the twin sister of Rionach Steward . Unlike her sister, she was born a Squib and did not inherit her mother's magical gifts. Martha grew up in Ilvermorny , where she could watch her sister and the boys who had taken in their parents receive training in magic from their mother.

Web links

• Official site for the film by Warner Bros. (German)
• Official Warner Bros. Movie Site

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