The American wizarding world will be fleshed out in Harry Potter spin-off
We already know that Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them will center on 1930s-era New York City. But now J.K. Rowling has revealed in a Twitter exchange that main character Newt Scamander (played by Eddie Redmayne) will meet people who were educated at an American school that is not in New York.
The only glimpse of magical folk beyond Europe is found in The Goblet Of Fire, when Harry attends the Quidditch World Cup and walks by African wizards with impressive fire and a group of witches under a banner reading “Salem Institute Of Magic.” Turns out, it’s not a school, but a joke U.S. readers probably didn’t get, because so far the books have been very England-centric. That’s changing with the upcoming spin-off, however: