<P> On 12 September 2013, Warner Bros. and Rowling announced they would be producing a film inspired by the book, being the first in a series of five such films . Rowling herself is the screenwriter . She came up with a plan for a movie after Warner Bros. suggested the idea . The story features Newt Scamander as a main character and is set in New York City, 70 years before Harry's story started . The film was released on 18 November 2016 . </P> <P> On 14 March 2017 a new edition of the book was published with six new creatures and the foreword by Newt Scamander . It is assumed to be a new copy as it does not feature any handwritten notes . Proceeds from this edition are donated to Lumos as well as Comic Relief . </P> <P> Fantastic Beasts purports to be a reproduction of a textbook owned by Harry Potter and written by magizoologist Newt Scamander, a character in the fictional Harry Potter series . In the series, Magizoology is the study of magical creatures . </P> <P> Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts, provides the Foreword and explains the purpose of the special edition of this book (the Comic Relief charity). At the end, he tells the reader, "...The amusing creatures described hereafter are fictional and cannot hurt you ." He repeats the Hogwarts motto: "Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus", Latin for "Never tickle a sleeping dragon". </P>

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