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Newt Scamander Timeline
Newt Scamander is an unassuming naturalist whose mild demeanor and devotion to the entire gamut of magical creatures hides enough cleverness and strength to stand up to none other than Gellert Grindelwald himself. Newt’s career as a magizoologist began as a young man working for the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures. He became the celebrated author of the book Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, now considered to be the premier bestiary of the wizarding world. Scamander retired to Dorset after decades of research and exploration.

Newt Scamander is born
Newt grows up to be a famous Magizoologist and author of the book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Read More
Newt Scamander dismembers Horklumps in his bedroom
At seven years old, Newt Scamander spent hours enthusiastically taking apart the bodies of Horklumps and getting quite dirty in the process (FB). Read More
Newt Scamander starts at Hogwarts
Newt Scamander starts his first year at Hogwarts and is sorted into Hufflepuff (FB). Read More
Newt Scamander starts working in the Office of House-Elf Relocation
After leaving Hogwarts, Newt Scamander takes a job in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures’ Office of House-Elf Relocation. He finds it extremely boring. Two years later, he is transferred to the Beast Division (FB). Read MoreNewt Scamander leaves Hogwarts
Newt Scamander leaves Hogwarts under a cloud, having been accused of endangering students. Albus Dumbledore, then a teacher at Hogwarts, argued against his expulsion (WFT). Soon after, Newt begins working for the Ministry of Magic (FB). Read MoreNewt Scamander starts working in the Beasts Division
After working for the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures’ Office of House-Elf Relocation for two years, Newt Scamander moves to the department’s Beasts Division (FB). Read MoreFantastic Beasts commissioned
Augustus Worme of Obscurus Books commissions the young Newt Scamander to write a guide of magical beasts. The result is Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, first published in 1927, a book which has been an approved Hogwarts textbook ever since and gone into 52 editions. Scamander takes at the opportunity… Read More
Newt Scamander disembarks from a steamship in New York harbor
Newt Scamander walks off the ship and goes through customs, then walks through Manhattan, taking in the sights. As he walks near a bank, a niffler escapes from his case and runs into the bank. Newt follows and, in the process of retrieving the niffler, meets a Muggle named… Read MoreTina takes Newt in to MACUSA headquarters
Tina Goldstein arrests Newt Scamander after he uses various spells in the presence of Jacob Kolwalski and fails to Obliviate him — and nearly loses a niffler in the process. No one at MACUSA will listen to her report except Percival Graves, who come down to her tiny office to… Read More
Hunt for the Erumpent in Central Park
Newt and Jacob follow the trail of destruction left behind by the Erumpent into the Central Park Zoo, where they manage to distract it from trying to mate with a very frightened hippo. The Erumpent turns its attention toward Newt, who performs a very interesting mating dance, but then discovers… Read More
Tina, Newt, Queenie, and Jacob meet Gnarlak at the Blind Pig
They hope to get information from the notorious underworld goblin about the whereabouts of Newt’s missing Demiguise. The meeting is broken up by MACUSA Aurors Apparating into the bar. Read More
Fantastic Beasts first published
Eight years after the book was commissioned and Newt Scamander started travelling the world in search of magical creatures, Obscurus Books publishes the guide. Fifty-two editions of the book have now been published as of the late 1990s, and it has been an approved textbook at Hogwarts since its original… Read More