Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them offers a huge expansion of J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World, taking place not just in another era from the Harry Potter stories but in a location – North America – the Potter books and films never ventured to.
So just what sets this area of the Wizarding World apart from what we saw before? A lot, as it turns out. Yes, there are similar basic trappings – including a school, Ilvermony, with four different houses and a government body, the Magical Congress of the United States of America (AKA the MACUSA), that functions much like the Ministry of Magic. But there are specifics about how these communities grew and function that make things very different in ways that go beyond using the term "No-Maj" instead of "Muggle" for non-magical people.
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So just what sets this area of the Wizarding World apart from what we saw before? A lot, as it turns out. Yes, there are similar basic trappings – including a school, Ilvermony, with four different houses and a government body, the Magical Congress of the United States of America (AKA the MACUSA), that functions much like the Ministry of Magic. But there are specifics about how these communities grew and function that make things very different in ways that go beyond using the term "No-Maj" instead of "Muggle" for non-magical people.
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