Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Newt Scamander, 2001
Fantasy Young adultContemporary fiction
A wizard naturalist’s field guide to impossible beasts, written with deadpan scholarship and the occasional talking ferret.
Feels like wonder.
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Being attacked by a talking ferret is one thing; being believed is another.
Todaye while travailing in the Herbe Garden, I did push aside the basil to discover a Ferret of monstrous size. It did not run nor hide as Ferrets are wont to do, but leapt upon me, throwing me backwards upon the grounde and crying with most unnatural fury, “Get out of it, baldy!” It did then bite my nose so viciously that I did bleed for several Hours. The Friar was unwillinge to believe that I had met a talking Ferret and did ask me whether I had been supping of Brother Boniface’s Turnip Wine. As my nose was still swollen and bloody I was excused Vespers. Newt Scamander.First published in 2001 as a charity companion to the Harry Potter series, it was credited to Newt Scamander, the fictional magizoologist later played by Eddie Redmayne.
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