The Harry Potter Spinoff--Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Quick Overview of Harry Potter

People just can't get enough of Harry Potter, the wizard who starts out as a sweet little boy and grows into a pensive, hunky teenager, who has a scar on his forehead put there by some green-skinned wizard with cat eyes. Did I also mention that Harry goes to a school for witches and wizards at age 11 to learn how to use his inborn magic powers, yet the school doesn't teach any math, science, English, or history. Not even P.E.! Harry has a 5th grader's academic education at best!

Really?? This is our hero and villain? And 8 movies weren't enough, now we have a spinoff, and yet more talk about another spinoff following this first spinoff.

How can anyone like this? How could I love it? Magic castles; a world of witches and wizards with their own society, education system, and laws; great evil stalking poor Harry since the time he was born to the time he defeats Voldemort (the green-skinned wizard with cat eyes) 17 years later, etc.. That's why.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

The world of Harry Potter is emerging on the big screen again through a new spinoff, called Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which J.K. Rowling is writing herself. Set 70 years before the Harry Potter events, the story follows Newt Scamander and his adventures. If you've read the Harry Potter series, you might recognize Newt's name: Harry was required to buy the textbook Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, authored by Newt Scamander. Today Warner Bros. announced the brand-new film, proclaiming that it was the first in a series. A few familiar characters and creatures from the other movies are supposed to turn up in this new series.

J.K. Rowling said that she would only come back to the wizarding world if she got an idea she was really excited about. "And this is it," she says.

Instead of London, Newt Scamander's story will start in New York. Other than the laws and customs of the magical world, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will in no other way resemble the events of  the Harry Potter series.

This new movie will be the first produced from a screenplay that Rowling has written. All the other movies were adapted from her books. Miss Rowling is really exercising her writing skills!

I don't know about you all, but I'm looking forward to this new movie!