100 Facts About Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them

Fact #95

Bathilda Bagshot was first introduced in the Harry Potter series as the author of A History of Magic, a quintessential text in the Hogwarts curriculum. In Deathly Hallows, we learn that she knew Dumbledore's family closely and introduced him to her great-nephew: Gellert Grindelwald. We know Grindelwald is a key player in the Fantastic Beasts films, and that Newt knew Albus Dumbledore. He cites Bagshot several times in the Fantastic Beasts introduction and A History of Magic came out 20 years later