Why did Leta switch the babies?

According to Queenie, Leta was a "taker" rather than a "giver", and she did display a selfish streak throughout her youth: Leta swapped her baby half-brother Corvus for another infant simply because she couldn't tolerate his crying; at Hogwarts, she allowed Newt to take the blame and be expelled for her own childish ...
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Is Credence the baby Leta swapped?

Leta recounted her father sending her and her brother to America on a ship. Wanting to relieve herself of her screaming brother, Leta swapped him with another baby on the ship, that baby being Credence. The ship sank before Leta could switch the babies back, and the real Corvus Lestrange drowned.
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Why was Credence put up for adoption?

Corvus loved this child, but felt that in order to protect him, he needed to send him away to America and give him up for adoption.
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What happened to Leta Lestrange brother?

Leta Lestrange sacrificed herself to the cause against the dark arts. Leta always had a complicated childhood. From switching her infant half-brother with another child and feeling responsible for her half-brother's death to getting bullied and sorted into Slytherin, Leta was a well of secrets.
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Is Credence Leta Lestrange's brother?

Both Credence and Leta are the children of Corvus Lestrange by different mothers, making them half-siblings.
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How is Bellatrix related to Leta?

Bellatrix married into the Lestrange family, originally being born as Bellatrix Black, meaning she and Leta are not related by blood. That would make Leta related to Bellatrix's husband, Rodolphus Lestrange, although that connection is no easier to find.
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Who is the baby in Grindelwald?

Credence is that other unnamed baby. So for a time he definitely was Corvus Lestrange, even though he actually was not. At some point after that, this young Credence was given up or lost by the Lestranges — it's still not clear why he ended up being adopted by the woman from the first “Fantastic Beasts” movie.
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What was Letas fear?

During a Defence Against the Dark Arts class at Hogwarts, a boggart reveals her greatest fear to be a vision of the cloth-wrapped baby sinking into the depths. Warner Bros. Consumed by guilt, she struggled during her years at Hogwarts and was victimised by her classmates.
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Why is Queenie with Grindelwald?

In the sequel, she decides to join Gellert Grindelwald in his crusade on the promise that she can marry Jacob due to a law refusing to allow humans and witches to marry. However, Queenie turns to the side of good again and both she and Jacob marry each other in 1932.
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Is Leta Lestrange related to Sirius Black?

Leta Lestrange is therefore directly connected to the most fascinating of wizard families, the Ancient and Most Noble House of Black. Generation X of the family — brothers Sirius and Regulus and their cousins Bellatrix, Andromeda, and Narcissa — present a fascinating microcosm of the entire wizarding war.
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Is Credence really Aurelius Dumbledore?

Is Credence Barebone actually a Dumbledore? The simple answer to this question, is yes. Credence Barebone is actually called Aurelius Dumbledore, and he is the son of Aberforth Dumbledore. That makes him Albus Dumbledore's nephew.
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Is Bellatrix Lestrange related to Leta Lestrange?

Funnily enough, the most famous Lestrange is one only by marriage, and despite really adorable Instagram photos that make us wish it so, there is no blood relation between Leta and Bellatrix whatsoever. At most, Leta and Rodolphus Lestrange (Bellatrix's husband) are very distant cousins.
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Is Voldemort the son of Credence?

Contains SPOILERS for Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore finally revealed Credence (Ezra Miller) as Aberforth Dumbledore's (Richard Coyle) long-lost son, but his mother can very well be a Gaunt, making Credence related to Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes).
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What was the name of Leta Lestrange's half-brother who drowned as a baby?

Loyalty. Corvus Lestrange was a French wizard and a member of the pure-blood Lestrange family. He was the son of Corvus Lestrange and Clarisse Tremblay. He died as an infant when the ship carrying him and his half-sister, Leta to America sank in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Who killed Aurelius Dumbledore?

While she originally said in an interview that Dumbledore was around 150 years old when he died, we know from Pottermore that he was actually around 115 years old when Snape fired the killing curse at him on top of Hogwarts' astronomy tower.
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Is Credence actually Aberforth?

It is explained that Credence is the illegitimate son of Albus's younger brother, Aberforth (Richard Coyle). His real name is Aurelius Dumbledore.
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Does Queenie stay evil?

Ultimately, though, Sudol believes Queenie is still a good person: “I still believe in her heart of hearts she's going over to fight what she believes in. Grindelwald is saying, 'we're creating a different world' and the world that she is in is broken. I don't believe she's turning evil.
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What does Grindelwald's skull say?

The inscription on the front of the skull included: Gellert Grindelwald's army symbol. The German inscription "Für das Größere Wohl", meaning in English "For the Greater Good".
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Do Jacob and Queenie have babies?

She has difficulty walking through the fire at the end because she is pregnant with Jacob's baby and it gets burned up. She probably wasn't aware of it but it would explain her enchanting him and pushing so strongly/crazily for marriage.
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What was Bellatrix Boggart?

Bellatrix's Boggart is either Voldemort being dead or Voldemort rejecting her.
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Is Scamander autistic?

Redmayne believes that Scamander has Asperger's but would not have been diagnosed because the term was not widely used during his lifetime. It's important to note that Asperger's is now considered to be part of the autism spectrum and is not a term that is used on its own anymore.
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Is Bunty a Weasley?

Bunty Is a Weasley | Fantastic Beasts.
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How is Yusuf Kama related to Leta Lestrange?

Loyalty. Yusuf Kama (born c. 1884) was a French pure-blood wizard of Senegalese ancestry, son of Laurena and Mustafa Kama, and half-brother of Leta Lestrange. He claimed to be the last male in his pure-blood family line.
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Does Bunty like Newt?

Bunty learns to care for the creatures even when they bite at her fingers, and she is completely in love with Newt.
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