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The digital heart of the Wizarding World www.pottermore.com To the memory of Gordon Murray, real-life creature-healer and hero Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay Acknowledgements Glossary of Film Terms Cast and Crew About the Author About the Book Design SCENE 1 EXT. SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE—1926—NIGHT A large, isolated, derelict chateau emerges from the darkness. We focus on a cobbled square outside the building shrouded in mist, eerie, silent. Five Aurors stand, wands aloft, tentative as they edge towards the chateau. A sudden explosion of pure white light sends them flying. We whip round to find their bodies scattered, lying motionless at the entrance to a large parkland. A figure (GRINDELWALD) enters the frame, his back to the camera; ignoring the bodies, he stares out into the night sky, as we pan up towards the moon. MONTAGE: we see various magical newspaper headlines from 1926 relating to GRINDELWALD’S attacks all over the world – ‘GRINDELWALD STRIKES AGAIN IN EUROPE’, ‘HOGWARTS SCHOOL INCREASES SECURITY’, ‘WHERE IS GRINDELWALD?’. He’s a serious threat to the magical community and he’s vanished. ......