What is the title of J.K. Rowling’s first Harry Potter screenplay set before Harry’s story?

J.K. Rowling’s first Harry Potter–related screenplay set before Harry’s story is Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

The 2016 film is set in 1926, decades before the Harry Potter novels. It follows magizoologist Newt Scamander after he arrives in New York with a case of magical creatures. Rowling wrote the screenplay, expanding a fictional Hogwarts textbook into a separate cinematic story.

The title was previously used for a 2001 charity companion book presented as one of Harry’s school textbooks. The film is not an adaptation of a conventional Rowling novel. It launched a planned prequel film series and introduced characters including Gellert Grindelwald and Albus Dumbledore in later installments.