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Ministry of Magic (1920s)

Leta Lestrange

Leta Lestrange

"Theseus thought it would be good if I became part of the Ministry family."

Played by: Zoë Kravitz, Thea Lamb (as a Hogwarts student)
Voiced by: Liliana Barba (Latin American Spanish, adult), Verania Ortiz (Latin American Spanish, young)
Appears in: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (photo) | Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

"Oh Newt, you're too good. You never met a monster you couldn't love."

A member of the French branch of the Lestrange family, an old powerful and rich aristocratic wizarding family, infamous for their belief in pure-blood wizard supremacy, and their association with the Dark Arts.

She was Newt's only friend during his time at Hogwarts, until they had a falling out after Newt took the heat for something she did that got him expelled from Hogwarts. When we meet her in the second film, she's working at the Ministry and engaged to Newt's brother Theseus. Although Leta comes from a tragic backstory, she is a kind and decent person who loves both Newt and Theseus. However, she deals lot of self loathing for a tragic accident that she inadvertently caused as a very young child.

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• Accidental Child-Killer Backstory: When Leta was about five, she accidentally caused the death of her younger brother Corvus. She’d swapped him with Credence to get some sleep and Corvus drowned when the lifeboat he was on toppled over. Although she blames herself, no one else does because she was just a kid and it was a tragic accident.
• Alliterative Name: Leta Lestrange.
• All Take and No Give: Queenie describers her as a "taker" when she's finally able to read Newt's mind as he lets his guard down.
• Ambiguous Situation: Queenie’s description of her from reading Newt’s mind in the first film is a bit different from her characterization in the second. While she has not apologized to Newt for his Hogwarts expulsion, she is not in any way the unpleasant woman that Queenie's description made us believe. There’s a couple of ways this can be interpreted. One way is that she’s just grown up in the ensuing years and isn’t a selfish teenager anymore. Another is that Queenie didn’t get a full picture. Perhaps she just saw snippets without context and judged Leta a bit too harshly, especially because she also said she’d heard bad things about the Lestranges. Finally, perhaps Newt’s an Unreliable Narrator of his own story and paints her a bit differently than what she’s actually like because he’s still resentful of getting kicked out of Hogwarts.
• Broken Bird: Leta is a regretful, sad, and unhappy woman. Once you learn about her backstory, you really can't blame her.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Leta Lestrange, from a family Potter fans should be very familiar with, was apparently a "very close friend" of Newt's during his time at Hogwarts, close enough for Newt to keep a small picture of her inside his luggage, though apparently they haven't spoken in a very long time. It's implied she was something of a False Friend as Queenie mentions she's heard of the Lestranges, and implies they have something of an infamous reputation (which should again come as no surprise to Potter fans), and after accidentally reading Newt's thoughts about her, tells him she was a "taker". At the end of the film, Newt admits to Tina that he has no idea what Leta is doing. After this brief introduction, Leta becomes a major character in the second movie.
• Child by Rape: Leta's mother was under the Imperius curse when she was conceived and therefore couldn't consent.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Leta had an exceptionally troubled childhood: she was conceived from rape, her mother died giving birth to her, and her father never loved her, instead favouring his son, Corvus V. While travelling by ship to North America, Leta switched the noisy Corvus with the less noisy baby Credence, only to experience a tragedy when the ship sank, taking Corvus with it while Leta held the quiet Credence and never said a word about the switch. She is still blaming herself for the incident, while the baby she switched would later be raised by an abusive No-Maj family. During school, she was bullied and only had a single friend, whom she put up as a scapegoat for something she did, leading to his expulsion.
• Dark Secret: Leta blames herself for the death of her little brother Corvus. When he was a baby and she a little girl, they travelled to America on a ship. Corvus kept crying the whole time, so Leta, being just a little girl herself, exchanged him for the quietly sleeping baby (Credence) next door so she could get some sleep. Directly afterward the ship sunk however. The exchanged baby survived with Leta, while the real Corvus drowned. Leta never told anyone, not while there might have been a chance to save Corvus and not afterwards, holding Credence silently while watching her favoured half-brother drown.
• Dying Declaration of Love: Before she dies, she tells Newt and Theseus that she loves them.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Newt Scamander has a photo of her in Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them. She appears in the sequel, The Crimes of Grindelwald.
• Freudian Excuse: A flashback in The Crimes Of Grindelwald reveals that Leta was horribly mistreated by most of her classmates, Newt being one of the few exceptions.
• Heroic Bastard: Since her mother Laurena was still married to her first husband when Corvus abducted and enslaved her, technically Leta is illegitimate.
• Heroic Sacrifice: She attacks Grindelwald to give Newt and Theseus a chance to escape from the crypt and gets burned to ashes.
• I Am a Monster: Leta deals with quite a lot of self-loathing, considering herself a monster for accidentally causing her baby brother's death as a child.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: As an adult, Leta is sullen, defensive, and rather cold at times, but she's matured into a decent person, even if she doesn't believe it of herself.
• Last of Her Kind: With The Reveal that the real Corvus Lestrange is dead, Leta is the last surviving member of the Lestrange family's French branch. Then Grindelwald kills her, rendering the branch extinct.
• My Greatest Failure: As a little girl, she switched her younger half-brother Corvus with Credence, quieter baby so she could get some sleep. However, when the ship they were on went down, the lifeboat with the Credence’s aunt and the real Corvus capsized, and so the real Corvus drowned. This affected her so deeply that her Boggart (which takes the form of a person's worst fear) assumes the form of the blanket falling in water that was her last sight of Corvus. Notably no one else holds her responsible for what happened because she was just a tired kid and obviously didn’t mean to kill her brother. It was just an accident.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The name Lestrange echoes the French words "l'étrange", literally "the strange one" or "the weird one". The Lestrange family is known for being made up of pure-blood supremacists, and several of its members would become Death Eaters. Queenie makes note of this in the first movie when reading Newt's mind.
• No Body Left Behind: Grindelwald incinerates her with Protego Diabolica, leaving only ashes.
• Non-Idle Rich: Despite coming from an influential and extremely wealthy wizarding family she works in the Ministry of Magic as the assistant of Torquil Travers, the Head of Magical Law Enforcement.
• Not So Similar: She and Newt were both outcasts at Hogwarts who loved magical creatures. But ultimately the two drifted apart because of a Noodle Incident where Newt took the blame for her actions and was thus expelled in her place, and Leta apparently let him do it.
• The One That Got Away: Even though their relationship soured, Newt still carries a torch for her. And then she got engaged to his brother.
• Only Friend: She and Newt were each other's only friend while at Hogwarts.
• Parental Abandonment: Her mother died giving birth to her, while her father never loved her and later died of an unspecified cause. She was raised by her half-elf nanny, Irma Dugard.
• Redemption Equals Death: Her stand against Grindelwald to buy time for the Scamander brothers to leave the Lestrange Crypt redeems her sins of indirectly causing Corvus and Credence’s aunt to drown, leaving Credence to be raised by Mary-Lou, and expelling Newt from Hogwarts.
• Settle for Sibling: After things between Newt and her went awry she became engaged to his older brother Theseus.
• Sibling Murder: Inadvertently caused the death of her baby brother, Corvus, when she was a kid. She still hates herself for it even though Dumbledore (who knows what it's like to be in her shoes) tries to tell her that she needs to forgive herself because people shouldn't beat themselves up for the rest of their lives for mistakes they made as kids.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: Downplayed; as a student, Leta was on the receiving end of quite a bit of bullying because of her family's reputation, so she decided to play into the expectations of others by becoming a trouble-maker, setting off dungbombs and hexing her classmates. As an adult, she seems to have grown out of it.
• The Un-Favourite: She was described as not being loved by her father, Corvus, and became this when her half-brother was born.
• White Sheep: Leta is one of only five Slytherins to be shown as good-natured instead of being a Spoiled Brat, Creepy Child, Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy, or Big Bad Wannabe, the others being Albus, Scorpius, Slughorn (and even he displays some pure-blood bias, but unlike other Slytherins, it doesn't overtake his morality for the most part), and Andromeda Tonks (nee Black) (Snape doesn't really count since he was a hateful Creepy Child). As far as we know, she is also the only good Lestrange family member in the film series, especially when compared to Bellatrix.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Dumbledore tries to assure Leta that, despite her thinking otherwise, she is and can be a good person.

Theseus Scamander

Theseus Scamander

"You know, the time is coming when everyone, everyone's gonna have to pick a side. Even you."

Played by: Callum Turner
Voiced by: José Antonio Toledano (Latin American Spanish)
Appears in: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald | Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

"So, this is the team that's gonna take down the most dangerous wizard we've faced in over a century. A magizoologist, his indispensable assistant, a schoolteacher, a wizard descended from a very old French family and... a Muggle baker with his fake wand."

Newt's older brother who is the head of the British Auror's office. He's considered by the Wizarding World to be a great hero for his bravery during the First World War. He is one of many Aurors seeking Grindelwald. Theseus is a kind and fair man whose heart is in right place in regards to Newt, but they butt heads over Newt's living on the fringes of society and refusal to take a side in the war that's brewing.

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• Big Brother Instinct: Despite their differences, Theseus does love Newt and stands alongside him when danger looms.
• Cool Big Bro: He's Newt's older brother, who's looked up to for being a war hero and an Auror. That said, there is a degree of antagonism between them. That Theseus is currently engaged to Newt's beloved from school doesn't help matters.
  Newt: [After Tina uses a spell to restrain Theseus with conjured ropes] I think that might have been the best moment of my life.
• Distressed Dude: He's captured halfway through Secrets of Dumbledore and placed in a magical execution chamber, where he is set up to be eaten by a giant scorpion. Newt manages to get him out just in time.
• Expy: The overachieving elder brother who works himself into a job in a turbulent Ministry of Magic and whose achievements are part of the reason for the younger brother's insecurities? He's basically Percy Weasley sent back through time. There's even more than a bit of facial resemblance between Callum Turner and a younger Chris Rankin (back at the time the original HP movies were out).
• Famed In-Story: He's a famous war hero. At the International Confederation of Wizards meeting at MACUSA, a visiting dignitary briefly mistakes Newt for his brother, only for the British Minister of Magic to correct him.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: While not foolish per se, Newt never liked a bureaucratic life and has no problem going beyond the reach of law if it means that he can research magical beasts, the real passion he holds. He contributed to the war effort working with Ironbelly dragons, but gets no recognition or respect for it. Meanwhile, Theseus is the head of the Aurors of the British Ministry of Magic and is considered a war hero.
• Manly Tears: After Leta dies, he breaks down crying in Newt's arms.
• Nice Guy: Although he and Newt have trouble relating on a personal level, Theseus is a kind man who treats his brother with respect and does everything he can to avoid loss of life in the course of his duties.
• Older Than He Looks: In The Crimes of Grindelwald where he is introduced, he could pass for his brother Newt's age - or younger - but is actually nearly forty.
• Only Sane Man: He's the only Ministry official that does genuinely try to take Dumbledore's advice to not rise Grindelwald's provocations of violence at the rally.
• Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: Like many Wizarding World characters, he's named after a character from Classical Mythology. In his case, he's named after the king of Athens who slayed the Minotaur. Which is ironic given Newt's love of creatures.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!:
  • Theseus was one of thousands who defied Minister of Magic Archer Evermonde's emergency legislation forbidding the British wizarding community from wartime involvement. It made him a hero in the wizarding world.
  • In The Crimes of Grindelwald, he tries to defy his superiors' order not to hold back while fighting Grindelwald, knowing that doing so would make them no better than the supremacists. Unfortunately, one of the Aurors ends up baited into killing a supremacist in self-defence.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: He seems to have this dynamic with his brother Newt (with Newt being the Sensitive Guy). Theseus is a fighter, heads up the Auror Office, very direct and almost blunt when dealing with people, and has no issue getting himself into a scrap. Newt is basically a Friend to All Living Things, gentle but socially awkward, thoroughly nonviolent.
• Sibling Triangle: He is engaged to Leta, who was once very close to Theseus' brother, Newt.

Torquil Travers

Torquil Travers

Played by: Derek Riddell

Voiced by: Mario Castañeda (Latin American Spanish)

Appears in: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

"Now, it pains me to say it, because — well, I don't like you — but, you are the only wizard who is his equal. I need you to fight him."

The draconian Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.

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• Alliterative Name: Torquil Travers.
• Call-Forward:
  • His draconian policies in fighting Grindelwald and his paranoia that Dumbledore is secretly plotting against him make him an odd amalgamation of Barty Crouch, Sr. and Cornelius Fudge.
  • One of his descendants will become a Death Eater.
• Jerkass:
  • The published screenplay accurately describes him as a "harsh, mean-spirited man". He's openly contemptuous of Newt, trying to scapegoat the chaos in New York caused by Credence and Grindelwald onto his beasts as a flimsy excuse to deny him travel papers.
  • Makes no secret of how much he hates Dumbledore and refuse to take his advice of how to combat Grindelwald without handing the latter a PR victory. When an Auror kills an attendee at Grindelwald's rally, it's all Grindelwald needs to launch a campaign against the various Magical Ministries without so much as picking up a wand.
  • He's so hung up on his dislike of Dumbledore, that he fails to notice the bounty hunter he hires to hunt down Credence is actually on Grindelwald's side.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Despite his mentioned Jerkass attitude, at the end of the film, Travers seems to have adopted this approach instead, apparently after seeing the hard way his ruthless and straught-forward methods ended. He allows Newt to speak with Dumbledore alone, and when Dumbledore finally decides to fight Grindelwald, Travers just looks on as Theseus removes the Admonitors Travers had placed on him.
• Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: His general philosophy is he can do whatever he wants without consulting anybody, even the Minister. This includes showing up at Hogwarts with a half-dozen Aurors, interrupting Dumbledore's class and then casually putting him under house arrest and removing him from his teaching post; he doesn't even talk to the Headmaster or Board of Governors or drag him before the Wizengamot, he literally does this on the spot because he was pissed off at Dumbledore.
• With Us or Against Us: His view on fighting Grindelwald, and to him there is no middle ground. He puts Dumbledore under house arrest when he refuses to fight Grindelwald (not because he's conflicted about fighting his old love, but because of the blood oath they made). This approach naturally works against him as it only makes the Ministry look more draconian which Grindelwald is able to counter by making himself look better in comparison, after all he's not forcing anybody to fight for him^note That last part is technically true. If someone doesn't want to side with Grindelwald he just kills their whole family, rather than force them to join him..

Others

Bunty Broadacre

Bunty Broadacre

"No one can know everything, not even you."

Played by: Victoria Yeates
Voiced by: Anette Ugalde (Latin American Spanish)
Appears in: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald | Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

Newt Scamander's assistant, who helps him in his suitcase and hideout zoos.

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• Ascended Extra: Her role in the second movie is minimal but in the third, she’s one of the five people Dumbledore entrusts to carry out the plan to stop Grindelwald from getting elected as the head of the ICW.
• Alliterative Name: Bunty Broadacre.
• Ascended Fangirl: She was a fan who had come to the signing of Newt's book between the events of the first two movies, where the two struck up a friendship and she ended up being hired as his assistant.
• Bad Liar: Her attempts to convince the leather smith in Berlin that the reason she needs half a dozen suitcases made in two days is because her husband is absent minded leave a lot to be desired.
• Beneath Suspicion: She's given Newt's case with the real Qilin because Grindelwald in his arrogance would have never considered her a threat and focused his minions' attention on the more powerful Lally and Scamander brothers.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Just like her boss, don’t mistake her meekness and love of animals as cowardice. She willingly takes the most dangerous part of the plan to stop Grindelwald’s election rigging plan.
• Eating the Eye Candy: When Newt jumps into the pool to feed the kelpie, she even tries to get him to take off his shirt.
• Ignored Enamored Underling: She has a very obvious crush on Newt, but he doesn't notice and it even seems a bit like he takes her for granted.

Credence's aunt (SPOILERS)

Credence's aunt

Played by: Linda Santiago
Appears in: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

In 1901 she was travelling to America with her baby nephew, Irma Dugard, and the Lestrange children. When the ship sank, she drowned when her lifeboat toppled over and she dove under the water to try to save Credence. However, the baby she was holding wasn't actually Credence, but Corvus because Leta had swapped the two of them.

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• All There in the Script: Her identity as Credence's aunt isn't outright said in the movie but is confirmed in the published script and credits.
• Ambiguous Situation: Even after the reveal in the third film, it's unclear who exactly she was. All Albus says that Aberforth got his girlfriend pregnant and she was sent away to hide it before anyone knew, not so much as giving her name. This woman was presumably her sister.
• Mama Bear: Dives under the water in a last ditch effort to save (who she thinks is) her nephew.
• No Name Given: She's only referred to as "Credence's aunt" in the script and credits, leaving her first name unknown.
• Posthumous Character: Has been dead for about twenty five years at the time of Crimes of Grindelwald.
• Walking Spoiler: It’s hard to discuss her role in the story without talking about the baby-swap and that Credence isn’t Corvus because Corvus drowned as a baby.

France

French Ministry of Magic

French Ministry of Magic

Appears in: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

The Ministère des Affaires Magiques de la France (literally "Ministry of Magical Affairs of France") is the government of the French wizarding world. It was created in 1790, during The French Revolution, and its headquarters are located in Paris.

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• Art Nouveau: The ministry's headquarters is decorated in nothing but this style, which indicates it might have been built or renovated in the 1900s. Even its logo has been made in the style of Alphonse Mucha.
• Attack Animal: Matagots (black creatures resembling sphynx cats) are used by the ministry as both messenger creatures and security guards.
• Elaborate Underground Base: Have an underground base similar to the British Ministry.
• The Magocracy: A government made of wizards that rules the French parts of the wizarding world, just like the British Ministry of Magic and MACUSA do in their respective countries.
• Strange Secret Entrance: A Wallace Fountain on Place de Furstemberg ("Furstemberg Square") in the Sixième Arrondissement ("6th district") of Paris serves as the visitor's entrance.
• Teleport Interdiction: Tina tells Newt that you can't apparate in or out of the headquarters.

Nicolas Flamel

Nicolas Flamel

"Together! In a circle, your wand into the earth! Or all Paris will be lost!"

Played by: Brontis Jodorowsky

Voiced by:

Appears in: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (mentioned only)

Jacob Kowalski: Are you a ghost?
Flamel: No, I'm alive. But I'm an alchemist, and therefore immortal.

A French wizard, scribe, scroll maker, and alchemist. A very old friend of Dumbledore, he created the Elixir of Life from the legendary Philosopher's Stone.

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• Age Without Youth: The Elixir of Life, produced by the Philosopher's Stone keeps Nicolas Flamel and his wife alive, but it doesn't keep them young. When Flamel meets with Newt and Jacob Kowalski he's an ancient-looking, doddering old man. Even his bones are so brittle that when Jacob tries shaking Flamel's hand in greeting, he accidentally breaks his fingers!
• Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Nicolas Flamel was actually a wizard and his alchemy experiences worked.
• Big Damn Heroes: When all seems lost, and it appears that Grindelwald's Protego Diabolica will destroy Paris, Flamel arrives and leads the heroes in casting a spell to quell the flames and save the city.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Doddering old fogey with age-embrittled bones when we first meet him, Big Damn Hero ready to save Paris from a rampaging blue draconic Protego Diabolica in the climax. And while the other four wizards present had to pair up for their node on the containment spell, he handled his position all by himself. And he's still standing after Protego Diabolica is extinguished.
• Crystal Ball: Owns one that works a lot better than ones in the Harry Potter franchise usually do, with even muggles being able to see the future in it.
• Elixir of Life: The source of his immortality, produced from his Philosopher's Stone. It also seems to take care of his nutritional needs since he tells Jacob that he doesn't keep any food in his house.
• Face Death with Dignity: He and his wife are ultimately fine with dying after the stone is destroyed; it helps that they still have enough elixir left to get all their affairs in order before the end arrives.
• The Ghost: He has a major impact on the plot of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, but it is done entirely off-screen including his death.
• Historical Domain Character: Flamel was a real French scribe who lived from 1340-1418. He is in fact so well-known and loved in his native France that the first book's title was changed to Harry Potter at the Sorcerers' School in the French translation to avoid it being a Spoiler Title.
• Immortals Fear Death: Inverted. Flamel's immensely long life is one of the reasons he's not afraid of death, with Dumbledore likening it to "going to sleep after a very, very, very long day".
• Intergenerational Friendship: Like you wouldn't believe. He is good friends with Dumbledore even though he's about 550 years older than him.
• Nice Guy: A very polite man who treats his guests with hospitality and doesn't get angry at Jacob accidentally breaking his fingers.
• Non-Action Guy: At least by the 1920s. Justified, as Flamel is extremely frail in his considerably advanced age.
• Old Master: While he's not much of a fighter due to his frailty, the ending of Crimes of Grindelwald shows Flamel that he is powerful wizard and has far more skill than "just" creating a Philosopher's Stone. He helps contain Grindelwald's Protego Diabolica.
• Philosopher's Stone: He invented it, and uses its properties to create the Elixir of Life, which extends his life.
• Robe and Wizard Hat: He is the only good guy in Crimes of Grindelwald who wears a wizard robe (although without a hat). Not even a younger Dumbledore does for the time being.
• Reed Richards Is Useless: He doesn't use the Elixir of Life to help anybody but himself and his wife.
• Seers: He has limited precognitive abilities as he's able to look into his crystal ball to see events that are about to happen in the very near future but that's about it.
• Saved by Canon: For the Fantastic Beasts series, at least. Canonically, he lives until shortly after the ending of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, which is several decades away in-universe.
• Squishy Wizard: Is a pretty powerful magic user but it's hard to shake his hand without accidentally breaking his fingers.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: Dumbledore implies he doesn't mind dying and sees it like going to bed after a very long day. In fact, The Crimes of Grindelwald shows that he has that ancient Greek horror, eternal life without eternal youth. He's so frail that a simple handshake breaks his hand.
• Wizards Live Longer: Thanks to the Elixir of Life, he is about 600 years old during the events of Crimes of Gridelwald. He and his wife Perenelle are 665 and 658 respectively by the time Harry Potter first attends Hogwarts.^note It's possible that they're even older as the book is described as being "old" when Hermione reads it (the real Flamel's birth year would make him 650-51).

Yusuf Kama

Yusuf Kama

Played by: William Nadylam
Voiced by: Arturo Mercado Jr. (Latin American Spanish), Alberto Bernal (Latin American Spanish, young)

Appears in: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald | Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

"'A son cruelly banished. Despair of the daughter. Return, great avenger. With wings from the water'. There, stands the despairing daughter. You are the winged raven returned from the sea, but I am the avenger of my family's ruin! I pity you, Corvus, but you must die!"

A pureblooded French Wizard of Senegalese descent and Leta's maternal half-brother. He comes to Paris to find Credence (whom he believes to be Corvus Lestrange V) and kill him, due to the Sins of the Father. In the third film, he’s brought into the plot to fool Grindelwald’s plot to get elected as the chairman of the ICW.

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• Abusive Parents: His father forced him to make the Unbreakable Vow, forcing Yusuf, under pain of death, to find and kill the one person Corvus Lestrange IV loved to avenge his mother's fate. That said, he seems to have had an excellent relationship with his parents before Corvus stole his mother and appears to be understanding of his father's grief, indicating that it may be Downplayed or even Subverted as it seemed Yusuf consented rather than his father having to make him.
• Aerith and Bob: Stands out among the pureblood characters in the franchise in having a very common first name.
• Allegiance Affirmation: Until the end of the suitcase chase sequence, it's unclear in Secrets of Dumbledore if Grindelwald managed to fully bring him to his cause after his mind is tampered with. Then, while leading a horde of Grindelwald's minions against Theseus and Lally, he suddenly turns around and sends them all flying with a single spell, proving him to be on their side the whole time.
• Anti-Villain: He's out to kill Credence, but he really has no choice in the matter; should he refuse, the Unbreakable Vow will kill him. Upon learning that Credence isn't Corvus Lestrange, and that Corvus actually died as a baby, Yusuf doesn't hesitate to help the heroes, and is implied to have joined the fight against Grindelwald at the end. Despite what Leta’s father did to his mother, he also feels no ill-will towards her and calls her "beautiful" when they meet in the crypt.
• Apologetic Attacker: He's quite friendly with Newt, Tina and Jacob as they were hunting Credence, so when he has to turn against them, he is quite disappointed that it has to come to this so he can kill Credence, even promising to release them from the bars he conjured after he's done so.
• Body Horror: He picked up a nasty-looking magical parasite as a result of living in the sewers, one that’s slowly killing him from the inside. Newt is able to extract it by plucking it loose from his eye.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Corvus IV Imperius cursed his mother away from him, and then she died giving birth to Leta.
• Decoy Antagonist: It looks like he's actually one of Grindelwald's minions. However, he's working on his own, and isn't actually that bad a guy, all things considered. At the climax, he saves Nagini from Protego Diabolica, helps the heroes protect the rest of Paris, and goes back to Hogwarts with them at the end.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • He may hate Leta's father and seek to kill Credence, but Yusuf doesn't hate Leta at all. Leta may have been in a way the cause of his mother's death, but in the end she is just another victim of her father's cruelty. Regardless of the circumstances, he takes absolutely no pleasure in having to dispose of Credence and remind Leta that Corvus Lestrange never loved her, clearly pitying them.
  • Secrets of Dumbledore goes further, by having Queenie read his thoughts and learn one of his deepest regrets is never getting to know Leta more before her death at Grindelwald's hands.
  • He's also quite against just killing people outright: He leaves Newt, Tina, and Jacob out of the field so he can kill Credence, and while he threatens Jacob when Jacob continues to get in the way, he never quite follows through.
• Eye Scream: While he fortunately keeps his eye, Newt pulls away a very long worm from his right one.
• Fake Defector: His role during Secrets of Dumbledore is to infiltrate within Grindelwald's ranks.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Grindelwald personally removes the memories he has of his dead sister Leta from his mind and lets them dissipate in the air.
• Last of His Kind: As the youngest male in his family line and presumably the only male of his generation, he is thus the last Kama who can carry the family name
• Long-Lost Relative: He's Leta's half-brother on her mother's side. Since her mother was kidnapped away from her first family they never got to know each other, a thing they seem to regret.
• Magically-Binding Contract: He made an Unbreakable Vow with his father, that he will kill the person Corvus IV adored the most. Leta was his first target, but after finding out that she was never loved by her father, he settled on her half-brother, Corvus V, whom he suspects to be Credence. Considering that the real Corvus V had died many years ago, it's unknown if Yusuf is still bound by the vow.
• Meaningful Name: "Kama" means "Love" in Sanskrit, which is a factor in his Dark and Troubled Past.
• Mistaken Identity: The real Corvus V actually died years ago - Credence isn't him.
• Parental Abandonment: His mother was Imperiused by Corvus Lestrange IV when he was a teenager and died giving birth to his half-sister, Leta. Meanwhile, his father was driven mad by the abandonment and made Yusuf promise under an Unbreakable Vow that he will kill Corvus's greatest love just before he died.
• Sins of the Father: Why he has a grudge against Credence and the Lestranges.
• You Killed My Mother:
  • In the second film, he goes after Credence because he believes him to be Corvus V, son of Corvus IV.
  • In the third, he confronts Grindelwald about Leta's death as part of his cover to infiltrate within his ranks.

Irma Dugard

Irma Dugard

Played by: Danielle Hugues
Voiced by: Patricia Acevedo (Latin American Spanish)
Appears in: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

A French half-elf who worked as a housekeeper for the Lestrange family. She brought the young Credence Barebone to the USA and signed his adoption paper.

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• Half-Human Hybrid: She's half-human half-elf, and the first one to ever appear in the franchise at that.
• In the Back: Hit with a Killing Curse to the back by Grimmson.
• Miniature Senior Citizen: Played with; she's quite old and quite tiny, but her height is a result of her half-elf heritage, not her age.
• She Knows Too Much: She's killed by Grimmson, who secretly received instructions to do so from Gellert Grindelwald in order to deprive Credence of the answers he was seeking and to push him into Grindelwald's arms.

Skender

Skender

Played by: Ólafur Darri Ólafsson
Voiced by: Gerardo Vásquez (Latin American Spanish)
Appears in: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

The cruel proprietor and ringmaster of the Circus Arcanus.

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• Bad People Abuse Animals: He mistreats the Zouwu and just about anything in his circus.
• Beard of Evil: Skender wears a large, bushy beard, and he's a very cruel man to humans and animals alike.
• Fat Bastard: Quite hefty, and a thoroughly Repulsive Ringmaster.
• The Freakshow: He exploits Nagini not unlike Real Life freakshows of old exploited people born with rare genetic conditions that manifested in deformities.
• Good Taming, Evil Taming: He didn't treat the Zouwu well, which causes it to escape and cause mayhem. Newt Scamander then puts a stop to the mayhem, tames the beast and treats it much better.
• Hate Sink: An Extreamly cruel man who treats the Zouwu like total crap.
• Repulsive Ringmaster: Repulsive because he put Nagini in a freakshow and talked about how an inferior being she is as part of his ringmaster routine. And then there's the mistreatment of the Zouwu.
• Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: When Credence lets the Zouwu loose on Paris so he and Nagini can escape, Skender high-tails it out of there before the French Ministry can hold him accountable for the destruction the Zouwu causes.

Corvus Lestrange IV

Corvus Lestrange IV

Played by: Keith Chanter
Appears in: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

The cruel patriarch of the French branch of the Lestrange Family and Leta's father.

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• Aristocrats Are Evil: A wealthy, influential patriarch who stole and later raped Laurena just because he can.
• Beard of Evil: He’s a cold-hearted rapist with a curly, stylized beard.
• Didn't Think This Through: What exactly was he thinking with sending his son Corvus to the notoriously anti-magic Mary Lou Barebone?
• Evil Old Folks: It's one thing to be sexist, it's quite another to put an Imperius curse on an already married witch (with a family) you lust after so you can seduce her, rape her, and force her to bear your child.
• Hate Sink: Corvus Lestrange IV lusted after Laurena, the wife of Mustafa Kama and put her under the Imperius Curse, attacking her son Yusef when he tried to stop him. Corvus raped Laurena for months before she died giving birth to a girl, who Corvus showed no love for as she could not continue his line. Corvus brushed off Laurena’s death and subsequently took another wife who bore him a son. Knowing that Yusef would target his son, Corvus sent both his children to America despite knowing the person he sent them to would be abusive. In short, Corvus Lestrange committed a particularly heinous crime for the Wizarding World and managed to avoid the consequences.
• Heir Club for Men: Never loved or showed any affection for Leta, simply because she was female. However, he simply doted on his son Corvus V.
• Karma Houdini: He managed to get away with putting Laurena under the Imperius Curse, despite it being one of the three gravest offences under wizarding law, and raping her for months, leading to her Death by Childbirth. While the consequences of his crimes against Laurena's family eventually led to his son drowning, it's unclear whether he ever learned the truth of what happened.
• Kissing Cousins: His second wife, Clarisse Tremblay, the mother of Corvus V, is his first cousin.
• Serial Spouse: Married twice, both wives died after childbirth. He stopped after he got what he wanted - a son.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: There’s no indication of what happened to him after he sent Leta, Corvus, and Irma Dugard to America.
• Would Hurt a Child: When he abducted Laurena Kama, he attacked a pre-teen Yusef with a stunning spell.

United States of America

Ilvermorny

Eulalie Hicks

Professor Eulalie "Lally" Hicks

"You do know I'm a witch, right?"

Played by: Jessica Williams
Voiced by: Marysol Lobo (Latin American Spanish)
Appears in: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald | Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

"Not that either of you asked, but I would highly recommend learning Charms."

A Charms professor at Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and a friend of both Newt's and Dumbledore's. In the third movie, she's recruited to join the mission to stop Grindelwald's plot to get elected as the head of the International Confederation of Wizards.

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• Action Girl: Lally may just be a Charms teacher, but her skill at magic is astonishing. Even Dumbledore remarks her defensive spellwork is "superb", and it's proven when she singlehandedly manages to foil an Assassination Attempt at a dinner party, manipulate Jacob's actions to make it seem as though he is casting a storm spell, and duel with German Aurors at pretty much the same time.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Her appearance in The Crimes of Grindelwald is very minor, when she communicates with Flamel via his magic book on Dumbledore's behalf to urge him to help Newt and his allies against Grindelwald. In the third movie, she's one of the team that Dumbledore entrusts to stop Grindelwald from getting elected as the head of the ICW.
• Establishing Character Moment: Lally's first scene in The Secrets of Dumbledore has her reading at a bus stop before being accosted by a group of men, only to be unimpressed by them and actually teach them how to be more menacing. The entire scenario was set up by Lally, with the help of her cousin Stan, to help Jacob realise he's braver than he thinks, and show his chivalry, as well as give Lally a means of recruiting Jacob.
• Nice Girl: Unless someone has given her reason to dislike them, Lally comes across as a very likeable and kind person, such as treating Jacob as an equal despite him being a Muggle.
• Odd Friendship: She's very gregarious, funny, and outgoing but there's a lot of respect between her and Newt, who's about the opposite of that in every way. They've been pen friends since his book was published between the first two movies, although the events of the third are the first time they’ve met in person.
• One Degree of Separation: She’s a longtime friend of Dumbledore’s, a more recent pen friend of Newt’s, and went to school with the Goldstein sisters.
• Paper Master: Eulalie throws a book and pages come out to become a solid platform for Jacob to walk across. She also uses books as a Portkey on two occasions, causing paper to swarm around the travelers before they teleport.
• Portal Book: Eulalie uses a book Portkey to take herself and Jacob to Newt and co.

Brazil

Vicência Santos

Played by: Maria Fernanda Cândido
Appears in: Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

The Brazilian Minister of Magic who's up for the election for Chair of the ICW against Grindewald and Liu. She is elected to the position at the end of the film.

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• Assassination Attempt: Grindelwald's supporters try to assassinate her via poisoning at the candidates' dinner but Lalie foils the plan.
• Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: Her supporters are associated with the color yellow, compared to Grindelwald's green and Tao's red.
• Nice Girl: While not in the movie very much, she's the one who relieves Jacob from Grindelwald's Cruciatus curse and the crowd elects her the Supreme Mugwump after the qilin bows to her, recognizing her pure heart and leadership abilities.
• Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: Her face is on many banners throughout the December 2021 trailer but she's only briefly in the background of one shot and is out of focus. All things considered she's not a major player but her election as the Supreme Mugwump is a Sequel Hook of sorts.

China

Liu Tao (劉洮)

Played by: Dave Wong
Appears in: Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

The Chinese Minister who's running to be the head of the ICW against Santos and Grindelwald.

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• Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: His followers wear red to Grindelwald's green and Santos's yellow.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Tao's name is in the book of Dumbledore's international contacts that Nicholas Flamel uses in Crimes of Grindelwald.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: If you pause and read the banners his supporters are seen carrying in the trailer, they say (paraphrasing), “We strongly support Mr. Liu to be the president of the International Confederation of Wizards”.
• Meaningful Name: Liu was the name of the family who ruled China during the Han Dynasty.
• Out of Focus: Doesn't so much as have a line. Santos is the more prominent of the candidates and she's the one who is elected at the end of the film. Grindelwald doesn't even try bothering to assassinate him.
• Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: Only briefly appears in the December 2021 trailer behind Grindelwald at the top of the temple steps in Bhutan and in a couple of quick shots in the second.

Germany

Anton Vogel

"Let the Qilin unite us."

Played by: Oliver Masucci

Appears in: Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

"It's in moments such as these we are reminded that it is this peaceful transfer of power which marks our humanity and demonstrates to the world that, despite our differences... all voices deserve to be heard, even voices which many may find disagreeable."

The incumbent chairman of the ICW in the early 1930s and German Minister of Magic. He's a Grindelwald supporter who helps him in his plot to get elected to his own position by getting him pardoned of his crimes, onto the ballot late, and using the zombified Qilin to bow to him to sway the crowd.

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• Ambiguously Gay: In the deleted scene where he goes to Nuremgard, he seems flustered when Grindelwald flirts with him and looks him up and down in a way that suggests he is attracted to him.
• Genre Savvy: He is the only one in the movie who realizes that not letting Grindelwald on the ballot usually does not work out well for everyone who is in charge. Also he's one of the only ones who doesn't try to throw Grindelwald off the side of the cliff in Bhutan when his election fraud attempt fails, see his speech about making things much worse.
• Hate Sink: A Corrupt Politician who bends to Grindelwald
• Large and in Charge: Masucci is a very tall man at 6'2"/188 cm ^note  He’s one of the tallest characters in the cast, along with Lalie, Theseus, and Aberforth and is playing the head of the Wizarding equivalent of the United Nations.
• The Mole: He's a secret supporter of Grindelwald's and gets him pardoned of his crimes.
• No Historical Figures Were Harmed: His role as a high-ranking public official lending his support to a Nazi-esque demagogue makes him the Wizarding world's equivalent of German president Paul von Hindenburg, who played a key role in Hitler's rise to power.
• Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: Can only very briefly be seen in the December 2021 trailer standing next to Vinda Rosier in the scene where Grindelwald chokes Credence and then only briefly again in the second trailer being thrown across the room at the party in Berlin. This is likely because his role is pretty heavy on the spoilers and involved with the election plot which wasn't the focus of marketing.
• Villain Has a Point: Secret stooge of Grindelwald he may be, but denying Grindelwald his eligibility to contend for the position of Supreme Mugwump could easily cast doubts on the legitimacy of the selection process and provide pretext for more open, and possibly sympathetic public violence on Grindelwald's behalf.

Henrietta Fischer

Played by: Valerie Pachner

Appears in: Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

Minister Vogel's personal attaché.

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• Faux Affably Evil: As expected for someone who works for such a high ranking official, she can turn the charm on pretty quickly. In Bhutan, she's polite to Newt and says that she's sorry they've never officially met. She offers to take him up where the high ranking officials are and that Dumbledore sent her, Newt is suspicious but she grabs the case and won't let go. Grindelwald's supporters curse him and by the time Newt catches up to her, she destroys his case.
• Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: She's important enough to get top billing but doesn't appear in the trailers and Pachner's role in the project was a secret until the franchise's website was quietly updated a few months before release. She's the woman that Newt is chasing up the temple stairs in the trailers but her face was never shown.

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