Is Fantastic Beasts a prequel to Harry Potter?

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is a 2022 fantasy film directed by David Yates with a screenplay by J.K Rowling and Steve Kloves.

It is the sequel to Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018), the third instalment in the Fantastic Beasts film series, and the eleventh overall in the Wizarding World franchise.

Its ensemble cast includes Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law, Ezra Miller, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Callum Turner, Jessica Williams, Katherine Waterston and Mads Mikkelsen.

Is Fantastic Beasts a prequel to Harry Potter?

The Fantastic Beasts series has always been missing for lack of better word magic. It is a prequel series to Harry Potter.

This Harry Potter prequel series has always had a hard time trying to recapture what made the audience love this universe in the first place, crafting a world that wasn’t quite as compelling, a story that is often a slog, and focusing more on the fantastic beasts than the actual characters at the heart of this franchise.