| abstract | - Eight blockbuster movies have been made by Warner Brothers from the first seven books, (Deathly Hallows was separated into two parts because of it's length and Cursed Child was a play). Video games based off those movies have been made for all gaming consoles. Pottermore.com and JKRowling.com are newer sources of canon information as well. A new five-part franchise inspired by spin-off book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them follows the arc of Newton "Newt" Scamander, an awkward Magizoologist (a person who studies magical creatures, a field known as Magizoology) and his unprecedented role in stopping Gellert Grindelwald, a Dark Wizard that caused a Global Wizarding War. It spans over 19 years, from 1926 to 1945, and is produced and written by J.K Rowling. The premise of Harry Potter, however, is that in the early fifteenth century the persecution of wizards and witches began to take pace
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