Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them

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It was an action, full of adventure, romantic, but above all that, it was a fantasy. J.K Rowling knew exactly what she was doing when she wrote this story line. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an extrodinary array of magical creatures documented by a man by the name of Newt Scamander. During this movie Newt travels away from his home in England to the Big Apple known as New York. While in New York he might have made it there and back without conflict if it weren’t for Jacob Kowalski, a muggle, misplacing the magic filled brief case with his own. At this point in the film the suspence has built up and had the audience wanted to know what was going to happen next. Following up the misplacement we are introduced to the Goldstein sisters,

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