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In 1927, the powerful dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald is being held prisoner by the Magical Congress of the United States of America (MACUSA). When departing New York for transfer back to London, he is freed by follower and former MACUSA employee, Abernathy. Grindelwald dispatches the guards and escapes.
Three months later, Newt Scamander is appealing to the British Ministry of Magic to restore his right to travel, after losing it during his visit to New York City. He meets with Leta Lestrange, an old friend from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, who is engaged to his brother Theseus. During his appeal, Newt is offered his travel rights returned if he agrees to work for the Ministry of Magic, alongside his brother, in locating the Obscurial Credence Barebone, who has resurfaced in Paris; Credence is believed by many to be the last survivor of a long pure-blood line of wizards. Newt rejects the offer, and the Auror Grimmson is dispatched in his place. After leaving the Ministry, Newt is summoned to meet with Dumbledore, who also asks him to travel to Paris to find Credence.
Newt returns home to find American friends Queenie Goldstein and Jacob Kowalski, who have followed Queenie's sister Tina to Europe. After a fight concerning the ban on marriage between wizards and Muggles, Newt realises that Jacob has been put under a love potion. After another argument, he lifts the spell. An angered Queenie leaves alone to find Tina. Newt and Jacob follow both to Paris.
In Paris, Tina attends a freak show at the Circus Arcanus in Paris, searching for Credence. Credence and circus attraction Nagini escape during the show, releasing many of the animals. Credence and Nagini, searching for Credence's birth mother, find the nurse who put him up for adoption, but Grimmson arrives and kills her under Grindelwald's orders and escapes Credence's Obscurus. Meanwhile, Tina meets Yusuf, yet another interested party looking for Credence. Newt and Jacob follow Yusuf to Tina, and Yusuf explains that he has sworn to kill Credence, believed to be his half-brother and a member of the Lestrange family.
Newt and Tina infiltrate the French Ministry of Magic for documents to confirm Credence's identity and are discovered by Leta and Theseus. Their search leads from the Ministry to the Lestrange family tomb, where Yusuf and Leta explain their relation and Leta reveals her brother died as an infant, and thus cannot be Credence. The trail seems to have been fabricated to lead Credence to the tomb, where Grindelwald is holding a rally for his followers, with Queenie in attendance and Jacob in search of her.
At the rally, Grindelwald preaches "freedom" for wizards from the rules that require them to remain hidden from Muggles, using future images of World War II to call for the supremacy of wizards. Led by Theseus, Aurors surround the rally, and Grindelwald turns his followers against them, sending them to spread his message across Europe. Grindelwald creates a circle of blue flame to divide followers from enemies, and the flames incinerate the majority of the Aurors when the latter's attempt to flee. Credence and Queenie cross to join him despite protests from Nagini and Jacob. Leta appears to swear allegiance, but attacks Grindelwald to allow Tina, Newt, Jacob, Yusuf, Nagini, and Theseus to escape, sacrificing herself. As Grindelwald escapes, the remaining heroes unite with Nicolas Flamel to defeat the expanding blue flame and save Paris.
Newt travels to Hogwarts to meet with Dumbledore and presents a vial he has taken from Grindelwald, surmising that its blood pact was the reason Dumbledore could not face Grindelwald himself. At his base Nurmengard in Austria, Grindelwald presents Credence with a wand of his own, finally tells Credence his identity: he is Aurelius Dumbledore. A baby bird Credence had been caring for is revealed to be a phoenix, a bird associated with the Dumbledore family. Credence then demonstrates his newfound power as a wizard by using his new wand to blast apart a mountainside.
Source: harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Fantastic_Beasts:_The_Crimes_of_Grindelwald
Three months later, Newt Scamander is appealing to the British Ministry of Magic to restore his right to travel, after losing it during his visit to New York City. He meets with Leta Lestrange, an old friend from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, who is engaged to his brother Theseus. During his appeal, Newt is offered his travel rights returned if he agrees to work for the Ministry of Magic, alongside his brother, in locating the Obscurial Credence Barebone, who has resurfaced in Paris; Credence is believed by many to be the last survivor of a long pure-blood line of wizards. Newt rejects the offer, and the Auror Grimmson is dispatched in his place. After leaving the Ministry, Newt is summoned to meet with Dumbledore, who also asks him to travel to Paris to find Credence.
Newt returns home to find American friends Queenie Goldstein and Jacob Kowalski, who have followed Queenie's sister Tina to Europe. After a fight concerning the ban on marriage between wizards and Muggles, Newt realises that Jacob has been put under a love potion. After another argument, he lifts the spell. An angered Queenie leaves alone to find Tina. Newt and Jacob follow both to Paris.
In Paris, Tina attends a freak show at the Circus Arcanus in Paris, searching for Credence. Credence and circus attraction Nagini escape during the show, releasing many of the animals. Credence and Nagini, searching for Credence's birth mother, find the nurse who put him up for adoption, but Grimmson arrives and kills her under Grindelwald's orders and escapes Credence's Obscurus. Meanwhile, Tina meets Yusuf, yet another interested party looking for Credence. Newt and Jacob follow Yusuf to Tina, and Yusuf explains that he has sworn to kill Credence, believed to be his half-brother and a member of the Lestrange family.
Newt and Tina infiltrate the French Ministry of Magic for documents to confirm Credence's identity and are discovered by Leta and Theseus. Their search leads from the Ministry to the Lestrange family tomb, where Yusuf and Leta explain their relation and Leta reveals her brother died as an infant, and thus cannot be Credence. The trail seems to have been fabricated to lead Credence to the tomb, where Grindelwald is holding a rally for his followers, with Queenie in attendance and Jacob in search of her.
At the rally, Grindelwald preaches "freedom" for wizards from the rules that require them to remain hidden from Muggles, using future images of World War II to call for the supremacy of wizards. Led by Theseus, Aurors surround the rally, and Grindelwald turns his followers against them, sending them to spread his message across Europe. Grindelwald creates a circle of blue flame to divide followers from enemies, and the flames incinerate the majority of the Aurors when the latter's attempt to flee. Credence and Queenie cross to join him despite protests from Nagini and Jacob. Leta appears to swear allegiance, but attacks Grindelwald to allow Tina, Newt, Jacob, Yusuf, Nagini, and Theseus to escape, sacrificing herself. As Grindelwald escapes, the remaining heroes unite with Nicolas Flamel to defeat the expanding blue flame and save Paris.
Newt travels to Hogwarts to meet with Dumbledore and presents a vial he has taken from Grindelwald, surmising that its blood pact was the reason Dumbledore could not face Grindelwald himself. At his base Nurmengard in Austria, Grindelwald presents Credence with a wand of his own, finally tells Credence his identity: he is Aurelius Dumbledore. A baby bird Credence had been caring for is revealed to be a phoenix, a bird associated with the Dumbledore family. Credence then demonstrates his newfound power as a wizard by using his new wand to blast apart a mountainside.
Source: harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Fantastic_Beasts:_The_Crimes_of_Grindelwald