Which Harry Potter character is the author of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them?

Newt Scamander is the fictional author of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. In Rowling’s wizarding world, the book is a Hogwarts textbook that catalogs magical creatures and is credited to Newton Artemis Fido Scamander.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione use the textbook during their first year at Hogwarts. The cover shown in the original story identifies it as a school book, and the text is treated as a reference work within the magical community. Newt’s name is therefore a fictional bibliographic attribution rather than J.K. Rowling’s own name.

The 2016 film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them turns Newt into its central character and depicts him as a magizoologist traveling in 1926 New York. The film’s story is not simply a screen adaptation of the textbook’s creature entries; it expands the fictional author into a protagonist.