Meet the Irish girl who founded the American wizarding school Ilvermorny

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is out in November, 2016 - and we've got a lot to learn about this new take on the Harry Potter universe.

For one thing the film takes place in the 1920s and it's also in America, so we're going to have to find out about how the wizarding world works across the pond. And that starts with being introduced to Ilvermorny, that's the American version of Hogwarts.

First things first, it was founded by an Irish girl. That's right, Isolt Sayre was born in Co. Kerry at the beginning of the 1600s and suffered the tragic death of her family at the age of five. She escaped her cruel relatives and set sail for the New World on the Mayflower, which is where the story gets really interesting.