Fantastic Beasts (approximate chronological order — can stand alone)
Series Metadata
Listing Series
-
Older, or Two Brothers and a Train Station by UnnamedElement (Unnamed_Element)
Fandoms: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
17 Dec 2023
Tags
Summary
In 1897, Theseus becomes an older brother, and his little brother Newt is perfectly normal… Until he's not. Over the years, Theseus thinks their parents are only doing what is best for Newt until--he decides over the course of a few holidays at home--they actually, very much, definitively aren't.
This story largely follows Theseus as an older brother, from holidays during his Fourth Year in 1902 (the year Newt's differences finally become undeniable) to part-way through World War I (1917). It paints a picture of how two such different brothers grew up together, fell apart together, and began--eventually--to finally find one another again.
All it took was getting older.
Series
-
For the Sake of the Scamander Name by UnnamedElement (Unnamed_Element)
Fandoms: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies)
11 Mar 2023
Tags
Summary
The Scamanders have worked hard for the respect they have and are desperate to keep up appearances. Newt's father, however, is perfectly done with it; and he draws a firm line for the sake of his son.
Series
-
The Riot Act by UnnamedElement (Unnamed_Element)
Fandoms: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies)
09 Apr 2023
Tags
Summary
Shortly after his 11th birthday, Newt accompanies his Uncle Hesiod to the Ministry, where he has his first interaction with the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures. It doesn't go well at all, and his uncle behaves more atrociously in return than he accuses Newt of having done in the first place. Not wanting to disappoint his parents—and struggling with new beliefs about his own value and intelligence—Newt turns to Theseus. But will he have his own say in the end?
Series
-
The Business of Worrying by UnnamedElement (Unnamed_Element)
Fandoms: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies)
22 Feb 2023
Tags
Summary
Newt has always had plenty of people worrying about him, so he doesn't bother with it much himself. But that doesn't mean things are always easy; and just because talking doesn't come to him naturally doesn't mean he has nothing to offer, or nothing at all to say. Luckily, sometimes, people manage to recognise that. Over time, though, Newt realises it's more important he simply believe it himself.
“Dittany, is it? Or murtlap?”
“It’ll be dittany for this one.”
“Do you know it’s possible to harvest murtlap tentacles without damaging or killing the creature?” The words are pouring out and he doesn’t even try to stop them. “But it’s more time-consuming, so wizards don’t often do it, which I think is an awful shame.”
Daisy and Longbottom share a look over his head that he doesn’t understand, and then Longbottom is on his feet, and his hand is ruffling Newt’s hair as he thanks him for the information.
Newt doesn’t like touch but somehow — in that very particular moment — he doesn’t mind it quite so much. It distantly reminds him of Theseus. (Fondness.)
Series
-
In Desperate Need by UnnamedElement (Unnamed_Element)
Fandoms: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies)
25 Nov 2022
Tags
Summary
It’s 1909 at Hogwarts. Newt Scamander is 12 years old, and he is not enjoying school. Meanwhile, Albus Dumbledore is the new transfiguration professor, and one of his quietest students is skipping class and kicking shins. But Dumbledore recognises something in the boy when he sees him react to an errant phoenix, and—so—the nurturing of two gentle creatures pays off for everyone in the long run, though Dumbledore won’t understand why the phoenix showed up in the first place until many years later...
A one-shot musing on the beginning of Albus' fondness for Newt.
Series
-
The Most Vicious Creatures on the Planet by UnnamedElement (Unnamed_Element)
Fandoms: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies)
29 Mar 2023
Tags
Summary
Newt became aware of his idiosyncrasies in fits and starts. Eventually, he would divide his life into Before he learned humans were vicious, and After. But accepting he could be just as vicious as anyone else was a lesson it hurt to learn. (Focuses on social awakening, relationships, and the compromises we make as we grow into a world not always built for us.)
Series
-
Charms and Bluebells and Summer 1912 by UnnamedElement (Unnamed_Element)
Fandoms: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies)
20 Feb 2023
Tags
Summary
They’re fifteen. Leta doesn't want to go home for the summer, but she doesn't want to talk about it either. Newt makes her a flower crown and writes his mum. Some love is so obvious it doesn't need to be spoken.
“I wish you were pureblood,” she said suddenly, and Newt heard the rustle of the grass as she turned to look at him, so he turned to look at her, too.
“Sorry ‘bout that, then,” he murmured, and she gave a quiet laugh.
He blinked hard in response, watched the wind pick up one of her curls: watched the shadow of a bird flitter across them both, darker even than his shade charm.
Series
-
With Its Head Under One Wing by UnnamedElement (Unnamed_Element)
Fandoms: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies)
25 Aug 2023
Tags
Summary
Pt 1 of 3 — Life goes on for Newt and Tina after Queenie and Jacob's wedding, and time passes, even as they are worlds apart. However, the machinations of Muggles and Wizards march on, too, moving our heroes ever closer to the greatest wars both worlds have ever seen, and neither side will be untouched by the other. This story is a series of scenes and letters, loosely connected plot, and slices-of-life between 1933 and 1948, highlighting the social identities of Newt Scamander and Tina Goldstein in a world gone mad.
Series
-
To have you here by UnnamedElement (Unnamed_Element)
Fandoms: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
24 Feb 2024
Tags
Summary
........
There is a period of time in June when Tina is not sure things will ever be the same.
........In the months following a deeply traumatic event for both Tina and Newt, their lives are punctuated by healing that can only be characterized by stubborn jolts and starts... The passage of time, however, offers more reprieve than either could have hoped for. And so — over the course of a summer — Tina turns 34, Newt embraces linen trousers, and their quiet love is marked by silent glances and wine at high noon, by goldenrod and trembling touch: by promises dreamed in a silver-mooned August that won't be realized til the fall.
Series
-
Head Full of Fairies by UnnamedElement (Unnamed_Element)
Fandoms: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies)
25 Jan 2023
Tags
Summary
Newt misses a MACUSA policy meeting on revisions to a creature trafficking bill, and Tina is beyond frustrated until she returns to their brownstone to find it utterly silent, Newt himself nowhere to be found.
A short story about autism in the Wizarding World and the intricacies of Newt and Tina's relationship, with gratuitous worldbuilding (and a side of Theseus, for Newt; and a side of Queenie, for Tina).
Series
-
Far Away from Temple After Sunset by UnnamedElement (Unnamed_Element)
Fandoms: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies)
28 Aug 2023
Tags
Summary
While often a requirement when working against a Seer, under-explained missions still don't always end well... The evening of December 24, 1940 sees Newt and Tina reunited on a bloody battlefield in southern France, and if Newt were properly religious, he'd have attributed their miraculous survival to the day of the year...
~*Missing/hurt Tina, hurt Newt, protective Theseus, historical context, etc.*~
Series
- Part 11 of Fantastic Beasts (approximate chronological order — can stand alone)
- Part 1 of December 1940
-
Aimez-vous les uns les autres (Love one another) by UnnamedElement (Unnamed_Element) for Augurey88
Fandoms: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies)
24 Dec 2023
Tags
Summary
Newt had woken up in an extraordinary number of incredibly strange places in his life, but—for him—coming to on top of a hay bale in the back of a Muggle lorry was really maybe the strangest.
It’s Christmas Eve and the first night of Hanukkah when Newt and Tina are injured in an action against Grindelwald, whereafter they are evacuated with Theseus & co. by the Magical Resistance to a small church in rural France. Dealing with curse-exhaustion, landmine injuries, and travel through Nazi- and Grindelwald-occupied regions isn’t how either of them expected to spend the holidays, but—in the big scheme of things—there were, arguably, worse ways to finish 1940… In the end, the experience brings them closer together and—back in England—holidays with their families give them paradoxical hope for shared peace in the years to come.
Series
- Part 12 of Fantastic Beasts (approximate chronological order — can stand alone)
- Part 2 of December 1940
-
The Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures by UnnamedElement (Unnamed_Element)
Fandoms: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies)
29 Dec 2022
Tags
Summary
It's June 1943, and Newt Scamander and Tina Goldstein are living in Dorset with their first child while Tina heads the American Auror initiative in Europe. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Magic has just begun working with the Allies to plan for the invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe through Normandy, via Dorset's neighbouring English Channel. Newt and the rest of Dumbledore's team are still on Grindelwald's radar, and news of Ministry reconnaissance employing a certain magizoologist and a kelpie ends up in the wrong hands. Newt is brought before his own department for Animal Welfare violations, but it quickly becomes clear that this isn't really about the kelpie at all: war is about subtle threats as much as it is about violence itself, and--with the weight of his daughter strapped to his back and the memories of missions gone wrong in his mind--it doesn't take much to remind him of that.
This is equal parts adorable domestic fluff and historical-based angst.
Series
-
Hope is the thing with feathers by UnnamedElement (Unnamed_Element)
Fandoms: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
02 Nov 2023
Tags
Summary
.
“I swear to high heaven, Theseus Scamander—what is going on?!”
“So — It seems Newt’s gotten himself in a spot of trouble with the British government...”
.
The month before the invasion of Normandy (D-Day), Newt Scamander is spotted working suspicious magic near a meeting of Muggle and Wizarding political leaders in London. The problem, of course, is that Newt Scamander is nowhere near London but, instead, over 14,000 kilometers away in the middle of the Pacific. But "desperate times call for desperate measures" (and even Tina and Theseus aren't entirely above scrutiny this go round), so Newt finds himself rather unsurprisingly compromised.
As usual, everyone else is dismayed to find Dumbledore may or may not have a plan at all, while the clock on Newt's life—and the joint Muggle-Wizard military action years in the making—begins to quickly tick.
Series
-
A Home by the Sea by UnnamedElement (Unnamed_Element)
Fandoms: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
04 Feb 2023
Tags
Summary
Love isn't enough to keep a relationship alive, especially in the darkness of war, fear, and atrocity. And moving on--particularly as parents--requires more strength than anyone is given proper credit for. (Newt & Tina over the years, in England and America, and their children. // With attention to memory, individual & cultural trauma, and mental health.)
Years ago, Newt settled into the rhythm of her presence as easily as if she were a phantom limb his body remembered from another life; as if she were a series of interlocking mechanisms integral to the improved equilibrium of his ecosystem. And, over the years, they had come to move around each other as if the other were an indispensable force in the universe they’d built together.
As Newt stumbled (still, a full decade later) over the prayer beside her, Tina pledged in the deepest and most private part of her heart to let no tide nor force of war pull them apart again.
(But research trips… Research trips she’d let him go for. Some creatures could not be leashed, however gilded the cage.)
Series