In Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), Newt Scamander has various Beasts, or we can say magical creatures, in his suitcase. Some appear quite briefly and have significance in the story and few appear just for few second during the travel inside the suitcase. What are all these creatur...

I just saw Fantastic Beasts and was was not expecting to see I would be surprised that such a prominent actor would have a few minutes on screen as such an important character in the HP universe. Have there been any official announced plans to pursue movies that feature this character more pro...

The process of execution as shown in the movie looks very complicated. First, they put in a happy memory in the liquid-thingy below the floating chair, and then the person sits on the chair, only to have the highly-corrosive liquid then engulf them? Why such a complicated measure? Couldn't they h...

Slight spoilers below At the end of the movie, Newt releases Frank to distribute the Swooping Evil's venom as a mass Obliviation spell. He says Frank is their "only hope". Why is that? We know wizards can modify the weather (Ron accidentally makes it snow in one of the movies). Combine that wit...

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them starts with a dark scene with some wizards. I was unable to make a connection between this scene and the rest of the film. And I didn't even get what really happened in that scene. So what was that scene supposed to mean? Is it something from Harry Potter ...

In the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them film, there's a scene where some people are skating on a frozen lake, but then a glowing light appears swimming under the ice. I don't understand that scene. What was that glowing light, and what is its significance in the story? (Screencap take...

In the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them film, there is a section where Newt Scamander and Tina go into a pub (tavern) full of wizards for rumours. In this pub, they meet a house-elf barkeep (who is much shorter than humans), as well as Gnarlack, a goblin (about the same size as humans) wh...

I know that there are some spoken spells in Fantastic Beasts, but they are very limited. For example, Percival Graves seems to speak no spells at all, using his hands very often. Is there are specific reason for this?

At one point in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Newt Scamander winds up having to make a deal with a goblin named Gnarlak, played by Ron Perlman. Below is an image of Gnarlak from that scene. As you can see (most obviously on the hand holding the cigar, but also on the hand holding hi...

In the Harry Potter books, Severus Snape told Harry the following while teaching him Occlumency: "The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by any invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, ...