Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

I ask all of you—who does this law protect? Us?
(gesturing vaguely to the No-Majs above)
Or them?
(smiling bitterly)

NEWT
I think you’ll find the best wizarding school in the world is Hogwarts!
QUEENIE
HOGWASH.

Newt has to be explicit. It doesn’t come easily.

those around him. He is watchful, tightly coiled, an air of intense confidence.

: smart clothing, very handsome, early middle-age, his demeanour differs from

NEWT

Now there’s absolutely nothing for you to worry about.

JACOB

Tell me – has anyone ever believed you when you told them not to worry?

NEWT

My philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice.

NEWT
My philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice.
Jacob digests Newt’s “wisdom.”

NEWT
People like you, don’t they, Mr. Kowalski?
JACOB
(startled)
Oh—well, I’m—I’m sure people like you too—huh?
NEWT
(not very concerned)
No, not really. I annoy people.

Quite suddenly Newt throws the Swooping Evil toward Jacob. The creature bursts out from its cocoon—a bat-like, spiky, colorful creature—and howls in Jacob’s face before Newt recalls it. Jacob recoils dramatically, but this was evidently Newt’s idea of a little joke . . .
NEWT
(smiling to himself)
Probably shouldn’t let him loose in here, though.

Blond Queenie, the most beautiful girl ever to don witches’ robes, is standing in a silk slip, supervising the mending of a dress on a dressmaker’s dummy. Jacob is thunderstruck.
Newt barely notices.