No undercover wizard would have chosen to pose as a Magizoologist at that period – an interest in magical beasts was considered dangerous and suspect, and taking a case full of such creatures into a major city was, in retrospect, a serious mistake. Now this, as anyone who lived through the 1920’s will know, is an absurd claim. In her recent biography, Man or Monster – The Truth About Newt Scamander, Rita Skeeter states that I was never a Magizoologist, but a Dumbledore spy who used Magizoology as a cover to infiltrate the Magical Congress of the United States of America (MACUSA) in 1926. As more documents become declassified over the coming years, I will be freer to speak openly about my role during that dark period in our history.įor now, I shall confine myself to correcting a few of the more glaring inaccuracies in recent press reports.
I am not yet in a position to tell the full story of my activities during the two decades that Gellert Grindelwald terrorised the Wizarding World. Professor Albus Dumbledore agreed to provide a foreward that met the case and we were both delighted that the book raised so much money for some of the world’s most vulnerable people.įollowing the declassification of certain secret documents kept at the Ministry of Magic, the Wizarding World has recently learned a little more about the creation of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. I was permitted to re-issue the book, only on condition that a disclaimer was included assuring Muggle readers that it was a work of fiction. The Ministry of Magic consented to this unprecedented release to raise money for Comic Relief, a well respected Muggle charity. In 2001, a re-print of the first edition of my book, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, was made available to Muggle readers.
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