Newt Scamander Merlin's beard!
Most-quoted character in Fantastic Beasts & Where To Find Them (2016): in 36 of its 57 quotes
Most scenes with: Porpentina "Tina" Goldstein (14), Jacob Kowalski (10), Queenie Goldstein (2)
Dougal... settle down now, please. It won't be long.
More lines from Newt Scamander
7 quotes Newt Scamander Newt Scamander Pickett? Come on, give me a smile. Pickett, give me a... [Pickett blows a raspberry] All right, now that is beneath you.
Newt Scamander [as a lion appears in the street]
You know, New York is considerably more interesting that I'd expected.
Newt Scamander You two, head that way. And try very hard not to be predictable.
Newt Scamander [in a note to Jacob]
Dear Mr. Kowalski, you are wasted in a canning factory. Please take these Occamy eggshells as collateral for your bakery. A well-wisher.
Newt Scamander [to Graves]
Useless...? Useless?! ...That is.. a..parasitical magical force that killed a child, what on earth would you use it for?
Newt Scamander [to Jacob, upon being unsure whether he should be worried]
Well, my philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice.
Scenes with Newt Scamander
28 scenes
Customs Official
British?
Newt Yes.
Customs Official
First trip to New York?
Newt Yes.
Customs Official
Anything edible in there?
Newt No. [unconsciously passes a hand over his breast pocket]
Customs Official
Livestock?
Newt [A latch on Newt's suitcase pops open, the Customs Official looks down curiously]
Must get that fixed. Um...No.
Customs Official
Let me take a look. [Newt moves a latch on his suitcase that switches it to "Muggle Worthy. The Customs Official opens the suitcase and we see it contains his clothes] Welcome to New York.
Newt Thank you.
Mary Lou
Are you a seeker? A seeker after truth?
Newt I'm more of a chaser, really.
You wiped his memory, right? The No-Maj.
Newt The what?
No magic. The non-wizard!
Newt Oh...yes, sorry. We call them Muggles.
And you were just in Equatorial Guinea?
Newt And I've just completed a year in the fields. I'm writing a book about magical creatures.
Like an extermination guide?
Newt No. A guide to help people understand why we should be protecting these creatures instead of killing them.
Newt Uh, moth, I think. Big moth.
Newt Just a smidge.
Mercy Lewis, what is that?!
Newt Nothing to worry about... [returns it to his case] That is a murtlap.
Newt Yes, I'm sorry, but you just yelled at me the length of New York for not doing it in the first place.
Newt He'll be fine. Murtlap bites aren't serious. [Jacob groans and doesn't look well] [getting concerned] Yeah, I admit that is a slightly more severe reaction than I've seen. But if it was really serious, he'd have...
What?
Newt Well, the first symptom would be flames out of his anus...
Oh, this is balled up!
Mr. Scamander, do you know anything about the wizarding community in America?
Newt I do know a few things, actually. I know you have rather backwards laws about relations with Non-Magic people. That you're not meant to befriend them. That you can't marry them, which seems mildly absurd to me...
Who's gonna marry him?
[Jacob, in spite of being ill, still manages to look insulted]
Newt You're a Legilimens?
Mmm. Yeah. But I always have trouble with your kind. Brits. It's the accent.
You, uh, you know how to read minds?
Oh, don't worry, honey. Most guys think what you was thinkin' first time they see me.
Mr. Scamander?
Newt Oh, call me Newt.
Newt, I don't think I'm dreaming.
Newt What gave it away?
I ain't got the brains to make this up.
Newt I need to get going. Find everyone who's escaped, before they get hurt.
Before they get hurt?
Newt Yes, Mr. Kowalski. For they're currently in alien terrain surrounded by millions of the most vicious creatures on the planet...Humans.
Newt People like you, don't they, Mr. Kowalski?
Oh. Well, I'm, uh, I'm sure people like you, too, huh?
Newt Not really, no. I annoy people.
Newt So did you get your loan?
No. I ain't got no collateral. Stayed in the army too long, apparently.
Newt You fought in the War?
Of course I fought in the War. Everyone fought in the War. You didn't fight in the War?
Newt I worked mostly with dragons - Ukrainian Ironbellies - Eastern Front.
Newt [hands Jacob a helmet, preparing him to distract the Erumpent who he's trying to get back in his case]
Put this on.
But why would I have to wear something like this?
Newt Because your skull is susceptible to breakage under immense force.
Newt [as he is strapping body protection on to Jacob in order to protect him while distracting the Erumpent]
Now there's absolutely nothing for you to worry about.
Tell me, has anyone ever believed you when you told them not to worry?
Newt Well, my philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice.
[referring to Credence]
Can someone please tell me what this Obscural...Obscurius thing is? Please?
There hasn't been one for centuries.
Newt I met one in Sudan three months ago. There used to be more of them, but they still exist. It was before wizards went underground, when we were still being hunted by Muggles. Young wizards and witches sometimes tried to suppress their magic to avoid persecution. So instead of learning to harness or control their powers, they developed what was called an Obscurus.
It's an unstable, uncontrollable dark force that busts out and attacks, and then vanishes. Obscurials can't survive long, can they?
Newt There's no documented case of an Obscurial surviving past the age of ten. The one I met in Africa was eight when she...she was eight when she died.
What are you telling me here? That Senator Shaw was killed by a...a kid?
You're an interesting man, Mr. Scamander.
Mr. Graves...
[silences her with a finger]
You were thrown out of Hogwarts for endangering human life...
Newt That was an accident.
...with a beast. Yet one of your teachers argued strongly against your expulsion. Now...what makes Albus Dumbledore...so fond of you?
So setting a pack of dangerous creatures loose here was just another accident, is that right?
Newt Why would I do it deliberately?
To expose wizardkind. To provoke war between the magical and non-magical worlds.
Newt [scoffs]
Mass slaughter for the greater good, you mean?
Yes, quite.
Newt I'm not one of Grindelwald's fanatics, Mr. Graves.
[One of Newt's creatures saves Tina from the death cell, then flies around, blocking the pursuing Aurors' spells] [running]
What is that thing?
Newt [also running]
Swooping Evil!
Graves always insisted the disturbances were caused by a beast. We need to catch all your creatures so he can't keep using them as a scapegoat.
Newt There's only one still missing. Dougal, my Demiguise.
Newt Slight problem is that, um, he's invisible.
Invisible?
Newt Yes. Most of the time. He does, um...
How do you catch something...?
Newt With immense difficulty.
Newt You can tell me to mind my business, but I saw something in that death potion back there. I saw you hugging that Second Salem boy.
His name's Credence. His mother beats him. She beats all those kids she's adopted, but she seems to hate him the most.
Newt And she was the No-Maj you attacked?
That's how I lost my job. I went for her in front of a meeting of her crazy followers. They all had to be Obliviated. It was a big scandal.
Gnarlack
So you're the guy with the case full of monsters, huh?
Newt News travels fast.
Newt I was hoping you could tell me if there have been any sightings...tracks, that sort of thing.
Gnarlack
You've got a pretty big price on your head, Mr. Scamander. Why should I help you, instead of turning you in?
Newt I take it I'll have to make it worth your while.
Gnarlack
Let's consider it a cover charge. [Newt slides some Galleons across the table.] [scoffs] MACUSA's offering more than that. [Newt places an optical device on the table] A Lunascope? I got five.
Newt [produces a...]
Frozen Ashwinder egg.
Gnarlack
[finally interested]
Oh, you see, now we're... [sees Newt's pocket with Pickett inside] Wait a minute. That's...that's a Bowtruckle!
Tell me the truth. Was that everything that came out of the case?
Newt That's everything. And that's the truth.
Did...Did you say school? Is there a school? A wizardry school here in, uh, America?
Of course. Ilvermorny. It's only the best wizard school in the whole world.
Newt I think you'll find the best wizarding school in the world is Hogwarts.
Hogwash!
[about to lose his memory]
Hey. This is for the best. Yeah. I-I was...I was never even supposed to be here. I was never supposed to know...a-any of this. Everybody knows Newt only kept me around because...Hey, Newt, why did you keep me around?
Newt Because I like you. Because you're my friend. And I'll never forget how you helped me, Jacob.
Newt [Newt and Tina say their goodbyes at New York Harbor]
Well...it's been...
