FantasticBeastsandWheretoFindThem

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 Acknowledgments 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 toward the chateau. A sudden explosion of pure white light sends them flying. We whip around 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 toward 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, ANTI-WIZARD FEELING ON THE RISE, WHERE IS GRINDELWALD?, IS ANYONE SAFE? He’s a serious threat to......