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About Comic Relief: A note from J. K. Rowling

Comic Relief is one of Britain’s most famous and successful charities.

Begun in 1985, the organization has raised more than $250,000,000 for

such charities as the Red Cross, Oxfam, Sight Savers, the International

HIV/AIDS Alliance, and Anti-Slavery International. The Harry Potter books

represent a new opportunity in Comic Relief’s quest to make a meaningful

difference in people’s lives. A special Harry’s Books fund has been created

where twenty percent of the retail sales price less taxes from the sale of

Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them

will go to support children’s causes throughout the world. Every book sold

counts! Fifty cents will send a child to school for a week – and change his

or her life forever.

Log on to www.comicrelief.com/harrysbooks and see how the money

from the purchase of these books is being used to help others. The Harry’s

Books fund will support such efforts as the education of children, the fight

against child slavery, and the reuniting of parents and children separated

by war. The fund will also educate people about the AIDS/HIV epidemic

and will support child victims of landmine explosions.

What is so wonderful about Comic Relief is that its costs are

sponsored, therefore it does not take money for its own administration from

the money given by the public. This means that in fact, because of

accumulated interest, more than 100% of the money it raises it passes on

to charity projects.

I have always had a sneaking desire to write Fantastic Beasts &

Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through the Ages, so when Richard

Curtis of Comic Relief wrote to me, I thought it was a wonderful opportunity

to help a charity I have always supported. Everyone involved with bringing

these books to fruition, the publishers, vendors, and retailers, has enabled

the contribution of a proportion of the cover price of these books to Comic

Relief’s Harry’s Books fund.

Thank you for buying this book!

FANTASTIC BEASTS

and where to find them

NEWT SCAMANDER

Special edition with a forword by

ALBUS DUMBLEDORE

Arthur A. Levine Books

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Scholastic Inc. has arranged for twenty percent of the retail sales price less taxes from the sale of this book to go to Comic

Relief U.K.’s Harry’s Books fund. J. K.Rowling is donating all royalties to which she would be enbtled.The purchase of this

book is not tax deductible. Comic Relief may be contacted at: Comic Relief, 5th Floor, Albert Embankment, London SEI

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same name in the United States.

ISBN 0-439-32160-3

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Available

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Printed in the United States and bound in Mexico 23

First hardcover boxset edition, September 2001

CONTENTS

About the Author........................................vi

Foreword by Albus Dumbledore.................vii

Introduction by Newt Scamander

About This Book........................................ix

What Is a Beast?..........................................x

A Brief History of Muggle Awareness

of Fantastic Beasts....................................xiv

Magical Beasts in Hiding..........................xvi

Why Magizoology Matters..........................xx

Ministry of Magic Classifications..............xxii

An A–Z of Fantastic Beasts...........................1

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ewton (“Newt”) Artemis Fido Scamander was

born in 1897. His interest in fabulous beasts was

encouraged by his mother, who was an enthusiastic

breeder of fancy Hippogriffs. Upon graduation from Hogwarts

School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Mr. Scamander joined the

Ministry of Magic in the Department for the Regulation and

Control of Magical Creatures. After two years at the Office for

House-Elf Relocation, years he describes as “tedious in the

extreme,” he was transferred to the Beast Division, where his

prodigious knowledge of bizarre magical animals ensured his

rapid promotion.

Although almost solely responsible for the creation of the

Werewolf Register in 1947, he says he is proudest of the Ban on

Experimental Breeding, passed in 1965, which effectively

prevented the creation of new and untameable monsters within

Britain. Mr. Scamander’s work with the Dragon Research and

Restraint Bureau led to many research trips abroad, during which

he collected information for his worldwide best-seller Fantastic

Beasts and Where to Find Them, now in its fifty-second edition.

Newt Scamander was awarded the Order of Merlin, Second

Class, in 1979 in recognition of his services to the study of

magical beasts, Magizoology. Now retired, he lives in Dorset with

his wife Porpentina and their pet Kneazles: Hoppy, Milly, and

Mauler.

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