Eddie Redmayne credited as playing...
Newt Scamander
- Newt Scamander: [From trailer] Grindelwald has the ability to see the future. So if we hope to defeat him, then our best hope... is to confuse him.
- Bunty: Huh?
- Jacob Kowalski: It's working on me right now.
- Albus Dumbledore: [revealing that his blood pact with Grindelwald has been broken] Remarkable.
- Newt Scamander: But how? I-I thought you couldn't move against one another.
- Albus Dumbledore: We didn't. He sought to kill, I sought to protect. Our spells met. Let's call it fate. After all, how else will we fulfill our destinies?
- Credence Barebone: [Grindelwald is chosen to lead the International Confederation of Wizards] He's lying to you. That creature is dead.
- [he collapses, and Aberforth moves to help him]
- Albus Dumbledore: Not now. Wait.
- Newt Scamander: He did it to trick you. He killed it and bewitched it so that you might think him worthy to lead. But he doesn't want to lead you. He just wants you to follow.
- Gellert Grindelwald: Words. Words designed to deceive. To make you doubt what you've seen with your own two eyes.
- Newt Scamander: There were two Qilins born that night. A twin. And I know that... I know that b...
- Gellert Grindelwald: Because? Because you have no proof. Because there was no second Qilin. Am I not right?
- Newt Scamander: Its mother had been killed, it...
- Gellert Grindelwald: Then where is it now, Mr. Scamander?
- Bunty: [disgused as a priestess, she approaches and hands Newt his case] No one can know everything, Newt.
- Newt Scamander: The maid of honor, I presume?
- Tina Goldstein: The best man, I gather?
- Newt Scamander: Oh, you've done something to your hair.
- Tina Goldstein: No. Oh. Well, yes, actually, just... just for tonight.
- Newt Scamander: Well, it suits you.
- Jacob Kowalski: [emerging from a fireplace via the Floo Network] Spinning! Always with the spinning.
- Newt Scamander: [happy to see him] Jacob. Welcome! You brilliant man. Sorry. I was absolutely sure that Professor Hicks would convince you.
- Jacob Kowalski: Yeah. You know me, pal. I can't pass up a good Portkey.
- Eulalie 'Lally' Hicks: [emerging from the fireplace, too] Mr. Scamander.
- Newt Scamander: Professor Hicks.
- Newt Scamander, Eulalie 'Lally' Hicks: At long last.
- Newt Scamander: So, Professor Hicks and I, we've corresponded for many years, but we've never actually met. So, her book on advanced charm-casting is a must-read.
- Eulalie 'Lally' Hicks: Newt is far too kind. "Fantastic Beasts" is required reading for all my fifth-years.
- Newt Scamander: Dumbledore asked that I give you something, Jacob.
- [taking out a magic wand]
- Newt Scamander: It's snakewood. It's, uh, somewhat rare.
- Jacob Kowalski: Are you kiddin' me right now? Is this thing real?
- Newt Scamander: Yes. Well, it doesn't have a core, so sort of, but yes.
- Jacob Kowalski: It's sorta real?
- Newt Scamander: More importantly, where we're going, you'll need it. Now, there's something for you, too, I think, Theseus. Um... Teddy, please let go now. Teddy, please let go. No. Teddy, will you behave? This is Theseus'...
- [he accidentally launches his Niffler at Jacob, then picks up a tie from the floor]
- Newt Scamander: Um, that's...
- Theseus Scamander: [taking it, sarcastic] Well, of course. Now everything makes sense.
- Newt Scamander: Um, Lally, I believe you were given some reading material?
- Eulalie 'Lally' Hicks: You know what they say. A book can take you around the world and back, all you have to do is open it.
- Jacob Kowalski: She ain't kiddin'.
- Aberforth: Here to meet my brother, I expect.
- Newt Scamander: Uh, no, sir. We're here to see Albus Dumbledore.
- Aberforth: That would be my brother.
- Jacob Kowalski: What is this place?
- Newt Scamander: The room we require.
- Albus Dumbledore: I trust you all have the tickets that Bunty gave you? You'll need them to gain access to the ceremony.
- [indicating four suitcases on the ground]
- Albus Dumbledore: What do you think, Newt? Can you tell which one is yours?
- Newt Scamander: No.
- Albus Dumbledore: Good. I'd be worried if you could.
- Eulalie 'Lally' Hicks: I assume the Qilin's in one of these cases.
- Albus Dumbledore: Yes.
- Eulalie 'Lally' Hicks: Well, which one is it?
- Albus Dumbledore: Which one, indeed.
- Jacob Kowalski: Ooh, it's like a three-card monte thing. Like a shell game thing. Like-like a short con.
- [seeing they don't understand]
- Jacob Kowalski: Never mind, it's a Muggle thing.
- Queenie Goldstein: Oh, are you all right, honey? Oh, you're nervous about the speech. Don't be nervous. Tell him, honey.
- Jacob Kowalski: Don't be nervous about the speech.
- Newt Scamander: I-I'm not nervous.
- Jacob Kowalski: [heading to the kitchen] What is the smell? Why is there burning? Albert?
- Queenie Goldstein: Mm. Maybe we're nervous about something else, huh?
- Newt Scamander: I can't imagine what you're talking about.
- Albus Dumbledore: You know what this is, of course.
- Theseus Scamander: Newt had it in Paris. I can't say I have much experience with such things, but it looks to me to be a blood troth.
- Albus Dumbledore: That would be correct.
- Theseus Scamander: And whose blood is contained within?
- Albus Dumbledore: Mine. And Grindelwald's.
- Theseus Scamander: I'm assuming that's why you can't move against him?
- Albus Dumbledore: Yes. Nor he against me.
- Theseus Scamander: Can I ask, what would possess you to make such a thing?
- Albus Dumbledore: Love. Arrogance. Naivete. Pick your poison. We were young, we were going to transform the world. This ensured that we would, even if one of us had a change of heart.
- Theseus Scamander: And what would happen if you were to fight him?
- Albus Dumbledore: [holding it up to eye level] It's really quite beautiful, you have to admit. Were I even to think about defying it...
- [the pendant hums and flies off the chain, carving its way up a stone wall; as Dumbledore tries to control it with his wand, the chain around his arm begins to tighten]
- Albus Dumbledore: It knows, you see.
- Newt Scamander: Albus.
- Albus Dumbledore: It senses the betrayal in my heart.
- Newt Scamander: Albus.
- [the chain tightens around Dumbledore's throat]
- Newt Scamander: Albus.
- Albus Dumbledore: [as he calms down, the pendant flies back to his hand] That would be the least of it. Young man's magic, but as you can see, powerful magic. It can't be undone.
- Newt Scamander: So, this is, um, this is Bunty Broadacre, my indispensable assistant for the past seven years.
- Bunty: Eight... years. And 164 days.
- Newt Scamander: As you can see, indispensable. And this is, uh...
- Yusuf Kama: Yusuf Kama. Pleasure.
- Newt Scamander: And you, obviously, already made Jacob's acquaintance.
- Theseus Scamander: [clearing this throat] Newt.
- Newt Scamander: Oh. So... so, this is my brother, Theseus, and, um, he works for the Ministry.
- Theseus Scamander: Actually, head of the British Auror Office.
- Eulalie 'Lally' Hicks: Ah! Well, I'll have to ensure my wand registration's up to date.
- Theseus Scamander: Yes. Although, strictly speaking, that doesn't fall within my purview.
- Jacob Kowalski: Is Tina coming?
- Newt Scamander: Tina's not available. Um... Tina's been promoted, she's, uh, very, very busy from... well, from what I understand.
- Eulalie 'Lally' Hicks: Tina's been made head of the American Auror Office.
- Jacob Kowalski: Oh.
- Eulalie 'Lally' Hicks: We know each other well. She's quite a remarkable woman.
- Newt Scamander: She is.
- Theseus Scamander: So, this is the team that's gonna take down the most dangerous wizard we've faced in over a century. A magizoologist, his indispensable assistant, a schoolteacher, a wizard descended from a very old French family, and... a Muggle baker with his fake wand.
- Jacob Kowalski: Hey, we got you, too, pal, and his wand works.
- Theseus Scamander: Who wouldn't like our chances?
- Jacob Kowalski: How do you confuse a guy that can see the future?
- Yusuf Kama: Countersight.
- Newt Scamander: Exactly. So, the best plan being no plan.
- Eulalie 'Lally' Hicks: Or many overlapping plans.
- Newt Scamander: Thus, confusion.
- Albus Dumbledore: Has Newt told you why you're here?
- Theseus Scamander: Was he meant to?
- Albus Dumbledore: No. As a matter of fact.
- Newt Scamander: There's something that we, uh... that, uh, Dumbledore wishes to speak to you about.
- Albus Dumbledore: Thank you, Newt.
- Newt Scamander: What for?
- Albus Dumbledore: Pick your poison. I really couldn't have done it without you.
- Newt Scamander: I'd-I'd do it again, by the way. Should you ask.
- Newt Scamander: What do they say at the Ministry? Liu or Santos?
- Theseus Scamander: Well, officially, the Ministry takes no position. Unofficially, smart money's on Santos. Although, anyone would be better than Vogel.
- Yusuf Kama: Anyone?
- Theseus Scamander: [seeing Grindelwald's mug shot on the back page of his newspaper] I don't believe he's on the ballot, Kama. He also happens to be a fugitive.