Rowling wrote "Fantastic Beasts" in 2001 between publication of the fourth and fifth Potter books, and for those not in the know, it's a textbook of all the magical creatures in the Harry Potter universe. The films will apparently follow magizoologist Newt Scamander. They’re not prequels or sequels, but an “extension of the wizarding world.”
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