Fantastic Beasts & Harry Potter: Top 15 Connections

Beyond the plausible setting, the Fantastic Beasts movies create several minor links to the Harry Potter canon. That would capture only serious fans. The Harry Potter series is one of the most popular and successful film franchises ever. The worldwide success of the book and the film series ensured that future expansions to the franchise would always be required.

Fortunately for fans, JK Rowling began work on the Fantastic Beasts book. Which will serve as a prequel to the Harry Potter series and will take place between the 1920s and 1945.

Because Fantastic Beasts is a prequel. There are several connections to the Harry Potter series, ranging from characters to subtle references.

George Chrysostom updated August 13, 2021. Warner Bros is very excited about creating the Wizarding World. So that both Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts are always pushed for further links.

There are several parallels and links between the two series from plot points to locales, characters, and topical beats.

15. Returning To Hogwarts

The connection is simple. But Fantastic Beasts really wanted to drive home. The second film saw fans return to Hogwarts for the first time in a long time, playing on the location’s nostalgia.

This allowed supporters to view a few more things in the school’s past.

It is largely the same architecturally and even the curriculum seems the same. However, the focus on the school continues to highlight and enhance the prestige of the place.

While also acting as a contrast to Harry’s less tranquil stay at the educational center, heightening the stakes for his adventures.

14. History of Dumbledore

During Newt’s time in the Wizarding World. Dumbledore is a major focus of both series. His history is explored in more depth. Indeed, thanks to an explosive book written by Rita Skeeter.

Harry Potter and his friends learn about Dumbledore’s early years.

Some of the events in this book are played out or at least referred to in Fantastic Beasts. Dumbledore’s connection with Grindelwald is especially crucial since, owing to their blood pact.

He will not face his old lover and instead sends Newt on the mission.

13. Rivalries School

The Harry Potter story line made a huge deal out of the rivalries between the competing schools throughout Europe. There’s also a tournament every many years. All the schools taking part in the Triwizard Tournament, Hogwarts, Beauxbatons and Durmstrang.

This spirit of international rivalry continues when Newt needs to debate the best witch and wizard school with his American colleagues.

His other countrymen tend to feel that Ilvermorny is superior, recalling the Harry Potter rivalry.

12. The Ministry Of Magic: Fantastic Beasts

The Ministry of Magic is an essential part of Harry Potter wizarding. Fantastic Beasts shows that other organizations worldwide are serving a same function.

The United States Congress is the equivalent of the United States.

Their power is apparent in the international political sphere. The Ministry of Magic obtains a knob at some of the international meetings of MACUSA.

The ministry has a Prime Minister and a MACUSA President, respectively matching the UK and the US systems.

11.Diagon Alley

Although the Fantastic Beasts protagonists are never visiting Diagon Alley in the films. The renowned London site is obviously connected with the other locations around the world where they have been exploring.

It appears every major city has a magical high street in much the same way.

Paris has its own magical underbelly, replete with a spectacular magical circus. While New York has its own magical underbelly, complete with Goblin-run pubs. It’s unclear which magical community came first and inspired the others.

But there’s still a lot to discover about Diagon Alley.

10. Leta Lestrange: Fantastic Beasts

Leta Lestrange was the fiancée of Theseus Scamander. Yet his brother, Newt Scamander, loved him.

While she appeared to die in the most recent film. Her family remains crucial to the Harry Potter plots.

Some of the most iconic characters in the Harry Potter canon are found in the Lestrange family. The family’s most renowned member is Bellatrix Lestrange.

Although the Lestranges are also connected to the Malfoy, Tonks, and even Lupin families, resulting in a number of Harry Potter connections to Fantastic Beasts.

9. Newt Scamander Text Book

One of the more subtle references to the Harry Potter universe is that the films follow the author of one of the Wizarding World’s most popular novels.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Which was first published in 1927. Would go on to become a staple textbook at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for decades.

In order to attend Hogwarts in his first year. Harry Potter needed a copy of the book.

Maybe it was for his defense against dark arts class, for pupils could not look after magic beings until their third year.

8. Obscurus Books: Fantastic Beasts

There is another subtle link to Harry Potter, fantastic beasts and where to find them. Obscurus Books was called the publishing firm behind the publication of the textbook.

This is a clear reference to the Obscurials’ significant position in the Fantastic Beasts series.

What’s most intriguing about this is that Obscurus Books has been the publisher of the textbook. Since JK Rowling released Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them in 2001.

Provided Newt’s run-in with an Obscurus and the company’s formation. This would have given fans an early indication of when Fantastic Beasts took place in the Wizarding timeline.

7. Nicholas Flamel

The second film Fantastic Beasts featured far more allusions than its predecessor to Harry Potter’s films.

Aside from the obvious features like Dumbledore and Hogwarts. There was a reference to the first film in the Harry Potter series.

Nicholas Flamel, the inventor of the Philosopher’s Stone, had an appearance in Crimes of Grindelwald.

He is obviously ancient in the film, with his hands breaking under the slightest pressure.

6. The Music

When Hogwarts is reintroduced in The Crimes of Grindelwald.

It’s already a incredibly nostalgic experience. Fans hadn’t visited the school in years. Even when they did, it was during a period of conflict.

In this film, however, the audience is treated to the site of Hogwarts while the famous “Hedwig’s Theme” by John Williams plays in the background.

This is the soundtrack of many viewers’ childhoods, and hearing it. While watching an establishing shot of Hogwarts was a terrific experience and a great connection to the Harry Potter world.

5. Nagini: Fantastic Beasts

One of the greatest fan ideas about Grindelwald crimes was that Nagini would appear after the publication of the first teaser.

In the film, Nagini is a Maledictus who suffers a blood curse which is transferred from the family’s female side.

The curse finally leads to the individual permanently becoming an animal.

In Nagini, she became a snake and. While the cause is still to be found, joined Voldemort for years after working along with Grindelwald.

4. Professor McGonagall

This one is almost certainly questionable. Fans witness a young teacher in the Grindelwald Crimes who is called “Professor McGonagall” by Dumbledore.

While she was clearly intended to be everyone’s favorite Professor of Transfiguration. Her appearance in the film has problems.

Minerva McGonagall, who was not born until 1935 and did not begin his education in Hogwarts until 1956. It is the most significant concern.

3. Deathly Hallows

The Deathly Hallows are some of Harry Potter’s most powerful magical items. The last book of this series was strongly centered on searching.

As Voldemort wanted the Elder Wall, and in his younger years even Dumbledore was obsessed with the Hallows.

The movie makes several references to the Hallows. Grindelwald (concealed as Percival Graves) gave credence in his first film to a Hallows necklace.

Furthermore, in the second film, Grindelwald obviously owns the Elder Wand.

2. Defense Against The Dark Arts: Fantastic Beasts

The Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom is one of Hogwarts’ most well-known. It was the scene where the funny exchanges of Gilderoy Lockhart and Lupin gave the classic class Boggart.

Crimes of Grindelwald depicts Dumbledore teaching this same Boggart class to refer to this class of Lupin.

While this is clearly a reference to the Harry Potter films.

It raises the question of why Dumbledore is teaching this subject given that he was the Transfiguration professor before becoming headmaster.

1.Mirror Of Erised

The Erised Mirror was first shown in Harry Potter and Stone of the Philosopher. It was an integral feature of the first film.

The mirror shows the person standing before it’s innermost wishes. Harry Potter saw his family. Ron Weasley saw himself being identified for his successes.

Dumbledore told Harry that he saw himself with some made of wool socks.

However, this was shown to be a deception in Crimes of Grindelwald. The Dark Wizard in the mirror, a reference to their youth romance, is obvious to Dumbledore.