Summary Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
The second installment of the "Fantastic Beasts" series featuring the adventures of Magizoologist Newt Scamander.
In an effort to thwart Grindelwald's plans of raising pure-blood wizards to rule over all non-magical beings, Albus Dumbledore enlists his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, though he's unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.
In 1927, the Magical Congress of the United States of America (MACUSA) is transferring the powerful dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald from their maximum security prison to London to be tried for his crimes in Europe. Grindelwald escapes during the transfer, aided by his follower and MACUSA employee, Abernathy. Three months later in London, Newt Scamander appeals to the Ministry of Magic to restore his revoked international travel rights following his misadventure in New York City. While at the Ministry, Newt runs into Leta Lestrange, an old Hogwarts classmate who is engaged to his brother, Theseus, an Auror in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. The Ministry offers to restore Newt's travel rights if he assists Theseus in locating the obscurity Credence Barebone, who has resurfaced in Paris. Credence may be Leta's long-lost brother, Corvus Lestrange, the last of a long line of pure-blood wizards. Grindelwald believes only Credence can kill his equal, Hogwarts Professor Albus Dumbledore. Newt, however, declines, refusing to choose sides, and the Auror Grimmson is dispatched instead..
Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and begun gathering followers, most unsuspecting of his true agenda: elevating wizards above muggles. Grindelwald's former friend Albus Dumbledore is the only one capable of stopping him, but he needs help from his former student Newt Scamander.
During a tempestuous night, the dangerous dark wizard, Gellert Grindelwald, breaks out of his maximum-security cell, and escapes MACUSA custody, only a few months after levelling New York City in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016). Hell-bent on sparking a global movement against the inferior Muggles, all-powerful Grindelwald tries to assemble more followers, desperately seeking out a troubled young obscurial who seems to be of vital importance to the ultimate success of his masterful plan. Now, before this terrible new threat, Hogwarts' headmaster, Professor Albus Dumbledore, talks his former student and excellent magizoologist, Newt Scamander, into actively taking part in the effort to thwart the sorcerer's scheme, as, more and more, Paris becomes a fateful battlefield. Will evil Grindelwald pay for his crimes?
