"Young Newt--and the youngest Dumbledore we've seen yet--is revealed in this exclusive new photo from Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald," Entertainment Weekly reported in featuring a photo in which "we see professor Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) and an alarmed-looking Newt Scamander (Joshua Shea) at Hogwarts in a flashback scene from the upcoming Harry Potter-verse film."
Scamander's connection with Leta Lestrange (Zoe Kravitz) is "one of those relationships where there was definitely great love there," Eddie Redmayne, who plays grown-up Newt, told EW. "But was it ever a full-blown relationship? I don't know. But certainly, she's somebody who has touched him hugely. At the beginning of this film you realize she's now in a relationship with Newt's brother so, of course, that comes with great complications."
EW also noted that in a new interview with Jude Law about playing Dumbledore, "he reveals the professor doesn't teach Transfiguration like it says in Potter lore. While Law doesn't say what he teaches, that skeleton on the ceiling of the room above matches the classroom of Defense Against the Dark Arts."
Law also said he "knew the books and the Harry Potter films pretty well, my children grew up with them so I grew up as an accompanying adult. And I’d seen and enjoyed the first [Fantastic Beasts] film. Then I had the good fortune and opportunity to sit with J.K. Rowling shortly after we started work on it. She gave me a very good sense of Albus's life journey and who he was and what was happening in his head and his heart and his world for this particular story."