Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a fictional book. It was written by J. K. Rowling.
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Yes, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them & Quidditch Through The Ages where both written by J.K Rowling under a different name (a wizarding name, as used in the Harry Potter novels), and they were written for Comic Relief.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a book by J.K. Rowling published in 2001. It is a faux "annotated textbook" from Harry Potter's magic classes at Hogwarts, listing the characteristics of magical creatures.The film of the same name, a Harry Potter prequel, is scheduled for release in November 2016. It stars Eddie Redmayne as an employee of the Ministry of Magic in 1926. In the film, magic and anti-magic individuals clash after the accidental release of magical creatures in the US.
As told by Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a lethifold is a shadow-like thing that will creep into wizard's houses and suffocate them in their sleep. If one wakes up, they can use a Patronus to repel them.
Hippogriffs are mythological creatures and so they do not really live anywhere. In legends, however, the Hippogriff is said to live in the Rhiphaean Mountains.
Rolf Scamander is neither in the movies nor the books however on J.K. Rowling's website she includes him in a family tree as married to Luna Lovegood and having two twin boys, Lorcan and Lysander, with her. According to the Harry Potter Lexicon he is the grandson of Newt Scamander (author of Harry's first year potion book) and a renowned naturalist like him.