Fantastic Beasts: How Newt Kept His Wand After His Hogwarts Expulsion
As established in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Newt Scamander was expelled from Hogwarts — so how did he keep his wand? According to Hogwarts rules, the Ministry of Magic will confiscate and snap their wand if a student is expelled. When Newt and his best friend, Leta Lestrange, were 16, Leta’s illegal experiment with a magical beast called a Jarvey endangered the life of a fellow student. However, Newt took the blame for the incident, resulting in him getting expelled from Hogwarts. Despite this, Newt clearly still casts spells throughout the Fantastic Beasts film series, raising questions as to exactly how Newt retained his wand.
Similarly, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets explains that Rubeus Hagrid was expelled from Hogwarts for supposedly committing the same crime: endangering other students with a beast. A lover of magical creatures, Hagrid adopted Aragog, an enormous spider, when he was 13 and secretly kept him as a pet. Unfortunately, Tom Riddle, who would later become Voldemort, opened the Chamber of Secrets that year and began attacking students with the Basilisk, even killing one girl. To avoid suspicion, Riddle framed Hagrid and his spider for the attacks, leading to Hagrid’s expulsion. Due to this, Hagrid’s wand was snapped, and he could not perform proper magic.
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These different outcomes raise the question of how Newt was able to keep his wand while Hagrid’s wand was destroyed. Although Hagrid was expelled for a more severe crime, given that a student died, Newt’s offense was still supposed to receive the same punishment. According to one theory (via Stack Exchange), the key difference is that Newt’s expulsion
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