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  The Admonitors fall from DUMBLEDORE’S wrists.

  The vial – blood troth – hangs in the air between them.

  NEWT

  Can you destroy it?

  DUMBLEDORE

  Maybe . . . maybe.

  Overcome, tearful, he tries to speak cheerfully.

  DUMBLEDORE

  (of the Niffler)

  Would he like a cup of tea?

  They turn to walk back towards Hogwarts.

  NEWT

  He’ll have some milk. Hide the teaspoons.

  The others walk slowly after them.

  SCENE 120

  INT. NURMENGARD CASTLE—DAWN

  GRINDELWALD

  You have suffered the most heinous of betrayals, most purposely bestowed upon you by your own blood. Your own flesh and blood. And just as he has celebrated your torment, your brother seeks to destroy you.

  CREDENCE inhales sharply. His chick steps gingerly onto GRINDELWALD’S palm. GRINDELWALD throws it in the air, where it catches alight.

  GRINDELWALD

  There is a legend in your family that a phoenix will come to any member who is in dire need.

  Given room at last, the bird stretches its wings and becomes full size. The bird is aflame, a phoenix reborn.

  GRINDELWALD

  It is your birthright, my boy. As is the name I now restore to you.

  (whispers)

  Aurelius. Aurelius Dumbledore.

  (beat)

  We will go down in history together, as we remake this world.

  CREDENCE turns. The power of his Obscurus can at last be channelled. He points the wand at the window and a spell of immense power shatters the glass and breaks apart the mountain opposite.

  CREDENCE stands staring through the shattered glass at his handiwork. He is extraordinary, and this is just his beginning.

  Angle on: The camera focuses on a particular character or object

  Back to: The camera returns to a particular character or action within a scene, after focusing on another

  Close on: The camera films a person or object from close range

  Cut to: Move to another scene with no transition

  Dissolve: A transition between scenes in which one image gradually fades out while another fades in to take its place

  Ext.: Exterior; an outdoor location

  Int.: Interior; an indoor location

  O.S.: Off-screen; action that takes place off-screen or dialogue that is spoken without seeing the character on-screen

  Pan: Camera movement involving the camera turning on a stationary axis moving slowly from one subject to another

  POV: Point-of-view; the camera films from a particular character’s point of view

  Sotto voce: Spoken at a whisper or under one’s breath

  V.O.: Voice-over; dialogue spoken by a character not present in the scene on-screen

  Warner Bros. Pictures Presents

  A Heyday Films Production

  A David Yates Film

  FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD

  Directed by

  David Yates

  Written by

  J.K. Rowling

  Produced by

  David Heyman, p.g.a., J.K. Rowling, p.g.a., Steve Kloves, p.g.a., Lionel Wigram, p.g.a.

  Executive Producers

  Tim Lewis, Neil Blair, Rick Senat, Danny Cohen

  Director of Photography

  Philippe Rousselot, A.F.C./ASC

  Production Designer

  Stuart Craig

  Editor

  Mark Day

  Costume Designer

  Colleen Atwood

  Music

  James Newton Howard

  STARRING

  Newt Scamander

  Eddie Redmayne

  Tina Goldstein

  Katherine Waterston

  Jacob Kowalski

  Dan Fogler

  Queenie Goldstein

  Alison Sudol

  Credence Barebone

  Ezra Miller

  Leta Lestrange

  Zoë Kravitz

  Theseus Scamander

  Callum Turner

  Nagini

  Claudia Kim

  Yusuf Kama

  William Nadylam

  Abernathy

  Kevin Guthrie

  with

  Albus Dumbledore

  Jude Law

  and

  Gellert Grindelwald

  Johnny Depp

  J.K. Rowling is the author of the much-loved series of seven Harry Potter novels, originally published between 1997 and 2007. Along with the three companion books written for charity, the series has sold over 500 million copies, been translated into over 80 languages, and made into eight blockbuster films.

  Originally written by J.K. Rowling in aid of Comic Relief as a Hogwarts textbook, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them became the inspiration behind a new and original five-film series for Warner Bros., the first of which was released in 2016. The second film in the series, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, was released in November 2018.

  J.K. Rowling has collaborated with playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany on a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which opened in London’s West End in 2016 and on Broadway in 2018, and will have further worldwide openings in 2019.

  J.K. Rowling also writes the Cormoran Strike crime novels, under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The fourth in this series was published in autumn 2018. The Strike books have been adapted for television for BBC and HBO television by Brontë Film & Television. J.K. Rowling is also the author of The Casual Vacancy, a stand-alone novel for adults, published in 2012.

  This book was designed and illustrated by London-based design studio MinaLima. Its founders, Miraphora Mina and Eduardo Lima, were the graphic designers on both Fantastic Beasts films and all eight films in the Harry Potter series. Their work has been influential in shaping the visual style of the Wizarding World: from film production to theme park graphics, and bestselling published works.

  The cover and illustrations in this book were based on elements and creatures in the story. Its 1920s Art Nouveau rendering echoes the aesthetic of the film and retains an ongoing theme from J.K. Rowling’s screenplay Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, also designed by MinaLima.

  The illustrations were drawn by hand and finished in Adobe Photoshop.

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  EBOOKS AND AUDIOBOOKS

  THE HARRY POTTER SERIES

  Audiobooks read by Stephen Fry

  Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  HOGWARTS LIBRARY BOOKS

  Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

  Audiobook read by Eddie Redmayne

  Quidditch Through the Ages

  Audiobook read by Andrew Lincoln

  The Tales of Beedle the Bard

  EBOOKS

  PLAYSCRIPTS AND SCREENPLAYS

  Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two: The Official Playscript of the Original West End Production

  Based on an original story by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne

  A play by Jack Thorne

  Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay

  ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS

  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: Illustrated Edition [Kindle in Motion]

  Illustrated by Jim Kay

  Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Illustrated Edition [Kindle in Motion]

  Illustrated by Olivia Lomenech Gill

  HARRY POTTER: A HISTORY OF MAGIC

  Harry Potter: A History of Magic

  Harry Potter: A Journey Through A Hi
story of Magic

  POTTERMORE PRESENTS

  Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship and Dangerous Hobbies

  Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists

  Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide

  AUDIOBOOKS

  Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - Makers, Mysteries and Magic

  Narrated by Dan Fogler

  Harry Potter: A History of Magic

  Narrated by Natalie Dormer

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  This digital edition published by Pottermore Limited in 2018

  Published in print in Great Britain in 2018 by Little, Brown

  Text copyright © 2018 by J.K. Rowling

  Illustrations by MinaLima © 2018 by J.K. Rowling

  Foreword © 2018 by David Yates

  Wizarding World Publishing Rights © J.K. Rowling

  Wizarding World characters, names, and related indicia are TM and © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.

  Wizarding World is a trademark of Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  ISBN 978-1-78110-233-6