History Headscratchers / FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem

** [[spoiler: actually I think that's a plot hook for the next ones]]

** "Graves" was able to fend off several dozen Aurors at once. That's not something an ordinary wizard can do, even one high up in government.

* So wait a moment, just how did Newt know to [[spoiler: cast a revealing spell on Percival Graves]]? Did I miss something like him maybe [[spoiler: saying something that only Grindelwald would say]] during a previous scene when the two interacted? [[spoiler: Such as when he sentences them to death]].

* Did Grindelwald [[spoiler:pull a KillAndReplace on an actual Auror named Percival Graves [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Barty Crouch]]-style (minus the kill obviously), or was it just a fake identity he assumed?]]

*** Um, no they weren't. The twins left of their own accord because they weren't going to put up with Umbridge's crap anymore. The "explosions" (also known as fireworks) were a deliberate celebration of chaos to stick in to her one more time before they left for good.

** Because the Wizard Nazis are smart enough not to, as the saying goes, "shit where they eat?" They also don't blow up school buildings. Note that when Fred and George Weasley did the 'explosions' thing? They were promptly expelled.

** Presumably Dumbledore's predecessor as the headmaster was a lot more of a stickler for expelling people than Albus turned out to be.

** Wasn't Dumbledore just the Transfiguration professor back then, not yet the headmaster? If so, his predecessor could've been much more of a stickler for expelling people than he'd be.

** Not to mention Hagrid was previously expelled from Hogwarts after a very long string of incidents that could be called dangerous as well, such as keeping werewolf cubs under his bed and numerous other moments like that. Scamander may have done something like that, but whatever caused his expulsion wasn't serious enough to have him lose his wand like Hagrid did.

** Because that's not generalizing at all. First off, it's not the school's fault if some of its students grow up to be pureblood supremacists or Death Eaters, and they don't just come from one house - need I remind you of Peter Pettigrew, for example? As Dumbledore says, "It is our choices, not our abilities, that define who we are." Most of the Slytherins we saw during Harry's time at school were just a bunch of schoolyard bullies who were ''descended'' from former Death Eaters (apart from Slughorn), and many of them were able to put their parents' backgrounds aside and fight for the school. It's even been mentioned that by the time Dracois there to send his son to Hogwarts - he's sending his son to a school that he formerly belittled and mocked at every opportunity - he's apparently matured enough to be on civil terms with Harry, and realized the mistakes he made when he was young to the point where he ensured Scorpio wouldn't turn out like him.

** Because that's not generalizing at all. First off, it's not the school's fault if some of its students grow up to be pureblood supremacists or Death Eaters, and they don't just come from one house - need I remind you of Peter Pettigrew, for example? As Dumbledore says, "It is our choices, not our abilities, that define who we are." Most of the Slytherins we saw during Harry's time at school were just a bunch of schoolyard bullies who were ''descended'' from former Death Eaters (apart from Slughorn), and many of them were able to put their parents' backgrounds aside and fight for the school. It's even been mentioned that by the time Dracois there to send his son to Hogwarts - he's sending his son to a school that he formerly belittled and mocked at every opportunity - he's apparently matured enough to be on civil terms with Harry, and realized the mistakes he made when he was young to the point where he ensured Scorpio wouldn't turn out like him.

* Dude was kicked out of Hogwarts for "endangering human lives". Hogwarts. The school that has a house entirely dedicated to turning out what are for all intents and purposes wizard nazis literally since its founding. Just how dangerous was his research that even Hogwarts was like "Nah, we don't want none of that"?

** And it might be that this book only gives a general overlook of the creatures. When starting Care of Magical Creatures class, they're assigned a different book - so it's possible they just stopped using this one.

** They don't seem to study Dark creatures in their fifth year (or at least under Umbridge) or in 6th year either. So they probably stopped using it for class and therefore no longer had the opportunity to write in it.

** In RealLife this book was released between ''Goblet'' and ''Order'' (not to take away the validity of the above headscratchers, just pointing it out to anyone who doesn't know)

*** Maby it was harry's idea?

** In RealLife this book was released between ''Goblet'' and ''Order'' (not to take away the validity of the above headscratcher, just pointing it out to anyone who doesn't know)

** It's possible that, that's when their copy was copied.

** Maybe this is another facet of his Will. He rights the commentary well before hand, then writes in his Will “in the event of my death, it is my request that these books should find their way to the muggle population”

* Why do the graffities in the book reference the events up to the fourth book, but not afterwards? Harry and Ron gave up Care of Magical Creatures in their sixth year, but in their fifth they still should have used the book.

** Maybe this is another facet of his Will. He rights the commentary well before hand, then writes in his Will “in the event of my death, it is my request that these books should find their way to the muggle population”

* If the whole book in its Muggle-published form is supposed to be an artifact from the Potterverse, does that mean Dumbledore wrote the introduction years after his supposed death?