Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

by Newt Scamander

Although almost solely responsible for the creation of the Werewolf Register in 1947,

I like Newt Scamander, but for this act alone, he's pretty much a jerk.

I am not yet in a position to tell the full story of my activities during the two decades that Gellert Grindelwald terrorised the wizarding world. As more documents become declassified over the coming years, I will be freer to speak openly about my role in that dark period in our history.

I know this is probably an allusion to the Fantastic Beasts movies that are coming out, but I would not put it past JK Rowling to write a whole series of actual Fantastic Beasts novels.

An interest in magical beasts was considered dangerous and suspect, and taking a case full of such creatures into a major city was, in retrospect, a serious mistake.

Gee, do you think?

As the American wizarding community was subject to greater persecution at that time than their European counterparts,

I really have to question not only Newt's observation about the American Wizard community here, but really JK Rowling's whole assumption and her reasoning behind it.

Rumours that a colony of Acromantula has been established in Scotland are unconfirmed.

I still think that Aragog came to Hagrid by way of Newt.

The Ashwinder lives for only an hour and during that time seeks a dark and secluded spot in which to lay its eggs, after which it will collapse into dust.

Do all Ashwinders only live for an hour or can the offspring of the original live for longer?

IRISH PHOENIX)

How much in common with Phoenixes do they have? Is immortality still a possibility?

discovered after much experimentation that a chicken egg hatched beneath a toad would produce a gigantic serpent possessed of extraordinarily dangerous powers.

What were the preceeding experiments?