As established inFantastic Beasts and Where to recover Them , Newt Scamander was expelled from Hogwarts - so how did he keep his baton ? According to Hogwarts rules , the Ministry of Magic will confiscate and snap their wand if a student is expelled . When Newt and his dependable friend , Leta Lestrange , were 16 , Leta ’s illegal experiment with a magic brute call a Jarvey endangered the life of a fellow educatee . However , Newt took the blame for the incident , resulting in him getting expelled from Hogwarts . Despite this , Newt clearly still casts spell   throughout theFantastic Beastsfilm series , kindle inquiry as to exactly how Newt retain his wand .

likewise , Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secretsexplains that Rubeus Hagrid was expelled from Hogwarts for supposedly commit the same offence : endangering other scholar with a beast . A lover of magical animal , Hagrid adopted Aragog , an enormous spider , when he was 13 and secretly go on him as a pet . alas , Tom Riddle , who would later become Voldemort , open up the Chamber of Secrets that year and began attacking scholar with the Basilisk , even belt down one girl . To avoid suspiciousness , Riddle compose Hagrid and his spider for the attack , leading to Hagrid ’s expulsion . Due to this , Hagrid ’s wand was snap , and he could not perform right magic trick .

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These unlike outcome lift the doubt of how Newt was able to keep his scepter while Hagrid ’s wand was destroy . Although Hagrid was throw out for a more severe crime , given that a scholarly person died , Newt ’s law-breaking was still suppose to receive the same punishment . accord to one theory ( viaStack Exchange ) , the key difference is that Newt ’s ejection was never apply . alternatively , Newt was allowed tocontinue learn at Hogwarts , graduating with his baton integral the next year . This theory argues that Newt was able to stay at Hogwarts due to Albus Dumbledore defend him , which is support by Newt ’s magic science in theFantastic Beastsmovies .

InFantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them , Percival Graves mention during an interrogation that Dumbledore had argued against Newt ’s expulsion . Citing a MACUSA document from a fellow traveler al-Qur’an , this hypothesis holds that Dumbledore ’s intervention succeeded . The text file also explains that due to Dumbledore defending him , Newt ’s name was cleared , and he was allowed to keep his wand to continue his study . Although it is indecipherable why Dumbledore defended Newt ,   he may have known Newt was not at fault for the incident with the beast . InFantastic Beasts : The Crimes of Grindelwald , Dumbledore explained that he admire Newt for always doing the right-hand thing , so he may have suspect thatNewt was protecting Letaand did not want him to be punished on her behalf .

Further grounds that Newt continue his wand because he was never expelled let in the type of trick he used . Throughout theFantastic Beastsfilms , Newt evidence himself as a skilled whiz , oft execute difficult charm such as apparition or teleportation . Newt ’s power to apparate is famed because Hogwarts students only learn how to apparate in a particular course when they are 17 eld sometime , suggesting that Newt was still at Hogwarts the next twelvemonth after the incident with the Jarvey . This designate that although Newt was meant to be expelled from Hogwarts , Dumbledore successfully prevented it , ensuring that Newt could fine-tune and still have his sceptre inFantastic Beasts and Where to incur Them .

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