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Newt & Tina: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Eddie Redmayne: What was kind of wonderful about what J.K. Rowling's written is that the way in which they met, they're almost antagonists to begin with. It's definitely not love at first sight.

Katherine Waterston: There's something. I mean, he catches my eye right away and I'm instantly suspicious of him.

Eddie Redmayne: Suspicion. Attraction.

Katherine Waterston: It's a fine line. Yeah, so, I mean, obviously that's an indication of my amazing instincts as an Auror, but also I think you do it with attraction. You notice right away something about someone, but they are not aware of it, but it's nice that the audience gets to be able to watch it from that perspective, knowing that these people will...

- Entertainment Weekly

Katherine Waterston: It’s wonderful how, throughout the film, they reveal little bits of their past and certainly reveal a great deal of their character to each other. As things are when you first meet someone, you get a very general sense of who they are. My sense of who Newt is at the beginning is that he’s dangerous and untrustworthy, and kind of cute, too. Part of what I love about Tina is she's flawed and often doesn't achieve what she is pursuing or things don't work out for her [like] she hopes. But she is good at her job and the moment she sees Newt she knows something is going on, even though she doesn't exactly know what. And that, to me, was the first clue that she's not a total disaster.

- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Movie-Making News & The Case of Beasts: Explore the Film Wizardry of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Katherine Waterstob: One of my favourite messages of the film: that there's so much more to people than initially meets the eye. I think it's one of the great discoveries in the film, at least for Tina as she gets to know Newt. At the beginning, he's not very engaged; he's prickly; he really wishes she'd probably fuzz off. She thinks he's got an interest in a ridiculous subject, and one that's dangerous and a nuisance. But it's through getting to know him better that she comes to understand what these creatures really mean and what they can be. And through seeing his relationship with the creatures, she comes to see there's so much more to him than just the prickly, standoffish and disinterested outsider she meets at the beginning of the film.

- HMV

Eddie Redmayne: Certainly at the beginning of the film when he meets Katherine's character, there's a great antagonism between them, and they're both quite sort of knotty characters. We sort of know that ultimately those two in the Potter lore get together, and there's this sort of central build of these two people who are outsiders finding each other.

- Entertainment Weekly

Eddie Redmayne: One of the things I loved about this script when I first read it is, I think JK Rowling had always seen it as telling a larger story, but the film is it's own thing. Actually the relationships that you see arrive in the film, they stand together as one sort of whole piece. But What I love is that the relationship starts kind of...

Katherine Waterston: Combative.

Eddie Redmayne: Yeah, it's not love at first sight put it that way. Maybe there's a bit chemistry at first sight, but it's quite combative. But what was lovely was to play a slow build, to be able to play this kind of — these characters are thrown into a world, this quartet together. They're all outsiders in some ways, and yet they have really heroic qualities within them. So it's kind of lovely for us to not rush that and be able to play it slow.

Katherine Waterston: You know that eventually you know these two people end up together. So you can see and look for when they start to notice each other, you know what I mean? Because you're in on it in a way that I think is really fun. I feel like there's a lot in this movie of us kind of like, oh, that tragic stuff where you look at someone and they're not looking at you, and then you look away and then they look at you. So there's like all of that sort of stuff going on.

- Entertainment Weekly

Katherine Waterston: I think the biggest distinction is actually the way witches and wizards interact with the muggles, or as we call them "No-Majs" in America, because we're forbidden to engage with them at all. We were persecuted during the very real Salem Witch Trials and went into hiding. There's just a lot more secrecy aroud witchcraft in America. When Newt shows up, he's very casual about things we are very, very strict about.

Eddie Redmayne: I feel like Newt doesn't really care about rules that much anyway.

Katherine Waterston: No, he doesnt. It's quite shocking to me.

Eddie Redmayne: It really irks her.Katherine Waterston: It stresses me out a bit, but also I find him really charming and engaging. So you know...

- Entertainment Weekly Binge Dec 07 2016

Katherine Waterston: With Newt and his case, the main problem is that it's a lot easier for witches and wizards to hide from the No-Maj world than to hide magical creatures, especially ones that are on the loose in the community. So that's the number one threat. It would be disatrous. They plough things over, they break things, they could harm people. For most of the film, Tina is just imagining the worst-case scenario. In Amercian, as it's established in the film, we've been taught that magical creatures is a bad thing. We should not have them at all, not in America and certainly not on the loose. She's almost panicked to get them back. In her interaction with the beasts as the're tracked down and recovered, Tina galves a better appreciation for Newt. So when push comes to shove, she again abandons the rule book and helps someone in trouble.

- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Movie-Making News

David Yates: She had done something really bad. Like Newt, she is a wee bit of an outsider.'

- Inside the Magic: The Making of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Katherine Waterston: Her relationship with Newt? I think if you're peculiar, it's nice to meet other peculiar people. Whether it's romantic or not, it's lonely when you feel like you're the only peculiar person out there. I think Newt and Tina are both kinda offbeat and have a lot of qualities that have often been attributed to geeks. I don't really think of them as geeks, just a little bit unusual.

- Yahoo UK

Katherine Waterson: There’s pieces of it that are very true to life, the cultural clash, we use different words, we have different ways of engaging, she’s an New Yorker, she’s kind of loud and aggressive.

Eddie Redmayne: He’s an introvert. He hates people.

Katherine Waterston: Yeah, and polite. Maybe not polite. There’s a different way of interacting that you certainly notice, Iike I notice goning from New York, as I'm from New York, to England to shoot the movie and sometimes there's a real...

Eddie Redmayn: Even in press, there are things. Sometimes I'll say a word and Katherine will be like, "What does that mean?" Or I'll say the other way around.Katherine Waterston: I'll have to translate it or the other way. Yeah, so, there was so much that I think that JK Rowling noticed about the differences and the cultures that she used in the story. But then at the same time, there are these beautiful parallels between Newt and Tina, and I think once they get to know each other better, they notice the similarities, and the connection there builds. But at the beginning, I think all they see is differences.

- Netease

Katherine Waterston: I think she felt more like a fish put of water in the first film, and I think maybe she and Newt recognised the similarity in one another. They both were in a situation where things weren't quite familiar or right for them.

- SFX Magazine

Katherine Waterston: Actually this is a point of connection between Newt and Tina is that they both had an aspect of their lives that really makes sense to them that in which they are highly functional, and then these other aspects of their lives are not so much. She also struggles with communication. She was orphaned as a child and had to take on a lot of responsibility at home, and as a result, didn't really socialise and develop like the average teenager might. So there are these aspects of her that are a bit stunted, but like all JK Rowling characters, utimately, whatever the guards are, whatever the barriers are, she has this huge heart.

- Kermodeandmayo

Katherine Waterston: What was great at the beginning, you see this slight clash of cultures. He's the outsider in New York. It's her town. She says things he doesn't understand, like No-Maj. He doesn't know what she's talking about. And they started off having this combative relationship. And I think they probably think that they are quite different from one another, but as they get to know each other, they see that there's a lot of points of connection that they had actually quite a lot in common, that they are both really passionate about their work, that they are both a little bit awkward in social interactions. That part of their lives has been sort of neglected and underdeveloped. And they both have a tenderness to them and big-heartedness to them that is quite covered by the way that they present themselves to the world. So it's fun to find the moment where they recognise each other.  

- Tencent

Eddie Redmayne: They're both really passionate people. Newt is absolutely, he's sort of slightly awkward amongst sort of human beings and wizards, but with his creatures he's like hugely passionate, and similarly Tina is pretty formidable at what she does. She's fallen from fame at the beginning of the film, but she is deeply, deeply sort of obssessed with her work in a brilliant way.

Katherine Waterston: Yeah, actually in our world, we both kind of come alive, and in the rest of the world, we haven't quite figure out how to be complete people. Also what's so nice about that is that there's so much room for us, I think, as actors, for us to grow. I think these characters will, when push comes to shove, I'm imagining in the future films, be challenged to rise more to occasions and stuff and I think it'll be really fun to, you know, it's more interesting and exciting to see someone who doesn't know if they're gonna able to pull something off and attempted and than someone who's like, "That's right and no problem. I got this." There's no tension there. So I think there'll be lots of fun. Feats ahead.

- Entertainment Weekly

Katherine Waterston: She has good instincts. She knows she has a lot of potential, but can't seem to convince people of it. I think Newt sees that potential in her. That's a lot of what falling in love is, you feel someone else recognizing what you have to offer. As the relationship evolves, she sees what’s motivating him and why he is the way he is. They are both very passionate about what they do. They are both a little stunted, not very good at expressing themselves. And then you start to see the reason why they have become that way. He’s very isolated in his work. She’s become the parent to her sister, Queenie, because they lost their parents when they were young. So they’re these two people who really haven’t had much time to have a good time. In contrast to Jacob and Queenie who are much freer, and it’s in that contrast that you see how trapped they are. The moments where a little bit of who they really are gets to come out, it’s really exciting. And as the film goes on, that starts to happen more and more.

- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Movie-Making News & The Case of Beasts: Explore the Film Wizardry of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Katherine Waterston: I think what you see there are two characters who are confronted with their own social limitations. That the areas in their lives where they really thrive. If he’s with his animals, he’s confident and he knows just what to do. And although we don’t really see her thriving at work in this film, at work – that’s the place where the world makes sense to her. It’s what she’s poured all of her energy into in her life. In a sense, by mistake they’ve missed out on developing the parts of themselves that would allow them to just simply enjoy a dinner. I think in that moment they’re both confronted with their own inadequacies and their shyness, so they’re recognizing something similar in one another, but also totally too limited to do anything about the fact that they’re realizing that they’re similar. Then it’s almost made more embarrassing by the fact that the two people right next to them have no difficulty in this area. But, I think that the whole quartet tells a story of oddballs coming together and feel understood by one another. The same thing is happening for both couples in that moment. The ones that are having an easy time talking are finding that they have things in common and a connection, and the ones that are struggling are also finding a connection in that moment.

- Snitchseeker

Katherine Waterston: I think they really kind of are actually kindred spirits. They recognize a similarity in the other. He has an area of his life that makes sense to him when he's with his creatures, and that's the safe place in the world he understands. In the broader world, it's challenging in many ways. Human interactions are challenging. Tina, her work makes sense to her. That's the world in which she thrives, and beyond that interpersonal relationships are quite difficult. You see it when Queenie and Jacob are at the dinner table in the first one. I always thought that scene told so much about these two. Just with the little quick glances and stuff, they were observing a great deal about the trap they are both in a little bit in human interactions, while these other two are so freely engaging with each other, but that's a comfort for them, and I also think I really don't have to act. It's a wonderful gift. Tina loves his relationship to the creatures and I, Katherine, I think it's so beautiful to watch Eddie work with them in the way he does. I feel like that's something that's very easy to perform, but that I think makes her feel like, "This is a really, really special wizard."

- FilmsNow Bloopers & Extras

Katherine Waterston: Part of what causes the wonderful connection to happen in the first film is that they recognise that similarity in each other. She also has a world that makes sense to her, and the greater world is a challenge and those personal relationships, she just doesn't... I think a little bit differently. She just maybe hasn't allowed herself that. There hasn't been time for that part in her life, because she's had a responsibility to care for her sister and focus on her work. But also that's the kind of thing people say when they're like justifying being single or something.

- Wizarding World

Katherine Waterston: When I first read the script, I really loved her journey that at the beginning she's really uneducated about fantastical beasts and maybe even a little bigoted and judgemental of what she doesn't fully understand and through the process of being exposed to them and seeing what they are through Eddie's eyes, she comes to a greater understanding and I loved that journey and that growth.

- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Interview

Katherine Waterston: And I love Tina because – and I think we can all relate to this. She’s very complicated. She has that aspect where you can feel incredibly confident in yourself, but also be filled with self-doubt and insecurity. She’s got all this hope for herself, but every time she tries to do something right, it goes wrong. So she’s wondering if she is as hopeless as other people perceive her to be. She’s living with that question when Eddie’s character comes along. He lets her try magic and it galvanises her. It can be lonely being an oddball until you find other oddballs. Their friendship is not a mere byproduct of the extreme set of circumstances they go through together; it is their common experience as outsiders that draws them to one another.

- Hot Press

Katherine Waterston: Tina is a very serious, hard-working, also awkward, damaged person. They share some traits. Both are very passionate about their work and thrive in that enviroment, but are little stunted developmentally in other ways. What I loved about Tina was that she loves her work. She's so proud of it and has a sense that she has great potential as a witch, as an Auror, but also at the same exact time, harbours a real anxiety and fear that she won't reach her potential, that she isn't good enough, and so I love that kind of internal struggle she has. It is when she too bonds together with these other three... It's kind of strength in numbers thing. They, especially Newt, I think, starts to encourage her to performe magic more than she's been doing recently because she's been demoted at work and she starts to kind of get her groove back because of that support.

- Filmsnow Movie Bloopers & Extras

Katherine Waterston: It just occurred to me now that both Newt and Tina are kind of rebels. He got kicked of Hogwarts at the beginning of the film. She is been demoted at work, so she's like a career gal without a career when you first meet her and is sort of struggling between both, feeling courageous, outgoing and confident and also vulnerable and insecure, so she's a bit of jumble. It is through joining together with, well, particulary Newt, but with the main four, or the other three I should say, that she kind of gets her groove back.

- MoviemaniacsDE

Katherine Waterston: Yeah, I mean it's one of the lovely things that I think Newt and Tina have in common is that both are really passionate about their work and their interests. It's where they kind of come alive. So for her, to have the place where she's most comfortable taken from her is very uncomfortable for her. So she wants to be a great Auror, but she also really wants to get back in the swing of things, because that's where she feels the best. She's really striving to kind of undo the damage she's done, but she has so much heart, and sometimes there are situations that compelled her to maybe bend or break the rules, even though all she wants is to get back in good graces at work. So she's kind of got this internal struggle going on there. But what's also amazing in the couse of the film is that because... I think that Newt sees her potential and kind of encourages her to get back into doing some pretty badass witchcraft.

- Entertainment Weekly Binge Dec 07 2016

Eddie Redmayne: With Katherine's character, it is sort of a slow-build connection. these two people, who are outsiders yet passionate people, begins to glimpse things in one another.

- Inside the Magic: The Making of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Eddie Redmayne: It was one of the things that I loved – the idiosyncrasies within these characters, as you say. Tina was someone that presents as incredibly strong, and yet she has the fragility as well. And similarly, Newt has a seeming awkwardness and shyness, and a complete incapacity to relate to other people. One gets a sense that that stems from some sort of damage. It's also because he is someone who has grown up with these creatures, so he has great empathy for them. And he's his own person. J.K. Rowling writes about these characters who all appear to be misunderstood or outsiders in some way, but when they find each other, they bring qualities out in each other. Both Newt and Tina have a certain pre-judgmental notion, and yet when they really look and listen, I feel that they see each other.

- HMV

Eddie Redmayne: He does have a vulnerability but it's not like he's striving for a connection with humans. At the beginning of the film, he's very happy in himself. He's seemingly completely content in his skin, but it's only when he realises that he can have a connection, that he sort of begins to fall for Tina. He connects with Tina and it's very slow burn but it's been wonderful to play. They start as antagonists, finding each other deeply frustrating, but by the end there's a kind of sense of something.

- Yahoo UK

Katherine Waterston: I don’t think it’s too theatrical a notion that Newt and Tina could bond so quickly, because a lot happens. When you’re thrown together with someone in a high-stakes environment, you tend to feel quite close to them even after a little bit of time. Sometimes you know someone for three days and it’s amazing and you think, “Hey I actually know you. You don’t, ladies! You don’t know them yet, but you can feel like you do.

- Wizarding World

Katherine Waterston: As Tina gets to know Newt, she sees more of him when she sees him interact with the animals because at first she does see him as uncomfortabe and guarded, but she's not seeing him interacting with the creatures, and I think it's part of where the love story begins at least for her is when she sees him the side that he kind of hides from other humans and it's very moving to her. 

- Adorocinema

Katherine Waterston: She really has a journey there to understand so much that she's never explored before. She took her job very seriously and she has great pride in being a part of MACUSA, but there's also a bigger world out there. There might be something a little bit narrow-minded about her—her perspective in the beginning of the film. This is why diversity is a good thing and understanding other cultures is an important thing. As she gets to know Eddie's character, she also comes to understand there's lots of different kinds of points of view about things that she had sort of been a little bit more rigid about... rigid-minded about before.

- KUTV

Katherine Waterston: My character in the beginning of the film, has been raised and taught to fear the other in the case of the fantastic beasts. And through education and through understanding and being exposed to it…Eddie Redmayne: And empathy.Katherine Waterston: Yeah, and being presented with a different perspective on it, she comes to understand that there's no reason for her to fear what she's been taught to fear. So those messages have a solution in them, too, which I think is fucking useful.

- Mugglenet

Katherine Waterston: In another interview I was talking about Tina's journey: she has a fear of the other, she's been educated to fear these magical creatures, and through exposure to them and exposure to a person who has a different perspective on them, her perspective changes. There's hope for growth so long as we open ourselves up to it.

- Leaky Cauldron

Eddie Redmayne: At the beginning, I think Newt has sort of no interest in Jacob. He's just about getting the creatures back. But there's one moment early on when Newt takes him down into the case and Newt doesn't take many people down, if anyone down to the case and he shows Jacob the Occamy, the little and he watches the way. Because these creatures are hated by the wizarding world. Everyone hates these creatures. He watches the way that Jacob looks at this creature and he suddenly sees someone who sees what he sees. And I think that's the first moment that Newt kind of falls a bit for Jacob and I love that progression. And similarly with Tina, when she comes down later and begins to understand these creatures for what they are and I think he can put his defense down a bit.

- Star

David Yates: There's another scene where Alison and Katherine, in the case, sing the Ilvermorny song, the school song. I asked Alison would she write it, and she wrote this beautiful Ilvermorny school song. And they sing it together and the two boys, Jacob and Newt, they sit there and they watch. And as the girls perform this song, this ode to Ilvermorny, they slowly fall in love.

- Slashfilm

Eddie Redmayne: In order to surprise him, Newt has to appear entirely relaxed and unpredictable, but the Demiguise knows him; he already has a sense of what he’s going to do. So Newt encourages Tina to just be casual. That it’s going to be up to her to catch the Demiguise, because he knows less about her. I think that not only is Newt trying to find the Demiguise, but subconsciously he’s beginning to enjoy the proximity with Tina.

- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Movie-Making News

Katherine Waterston: Perhaps my favorite day on set was a scene with Tina and Newt on a dock. We were on location in an enormous hanger originally used to build zeppelins. It’s the biggest single storey building I’ve ever seen in my life, and had this incredible energy to it. We only shot a few takes of that scene, but that was one of my best memories. It was just one of those days that felt electric.

- Female First

Katherine Waterston: I loved the scene between us at the end of the movie. Because we’ve been doing all these action and stunts and working with the magical creatures, and this was just a very simple scene, two actors just communicating together, and we shot it with two cameras as well. So it was like sometimes you shoot one side and then the other, but we were really in the moment together. So what you see in the movie isn’t cut together between like many hours of shooting. It’s kind of more in real time. That felt magical.

- Tencent

Eddie Redmayne: What do I enjoy most about the work? It's the tiny moments when things feel real and they happen very, very rarely. You're very lucky if it you have one in an entire job and it happened for me on this job when, in the last scene between Tina and Newt, when they're leaving to go away, she wishes him and says, "Good luck on the book." And then she says the title of the book, 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.' Newt can't believe that someone's seen him, and in that moment, whenever Katherine said that, I got goosebumps. I was like got the tingles, "Wow!" Like being seen. And It's a weird moment. You can't really quite describe it and that's why you never talk about it in acting, but it's like something feels true for a minute or a second, and you don't feel like you're putting it on. It's just a natural reaction that happens to you.

- Snitchseeker

David Yates: In the course of the story Tina and Newt have this unrequited, quite tender, quite funny journey together.

- Inside the Magic: The Making of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Katherine Waterston: I suppose in the beginning of the first film, she's a survivor and she sort of developed a kind of hardness in order to get by in the world and I think when she encounters Newt, it does soften her in a way.

- Cinemark Argentina

Eddie Redmayne: One of the things I love about Newt is that he's completely his own person. He's learned to be content with that - or he thinks he's content with it. In the last movie, he connected with the [principal] trio, and particularly with Tina, who saw elements in him which other people had never seen. Probably one of the only other people in his life who had seen that was Dumbledore.

- SFX Magazine

Eddie Redmayne: In the last movie, getting to meet Queenie and Jacob, and particularly Tina, like his heart has been opened. So his world has always been his creatures and his case, and through meeting Tina, his heart's kind of exploded, and so I would say he is out for being much more open

- iQIYI

Eddie Redmayne: What is it that he doesn't like about Tina? I think Tina is an extraordinary character. She is formidable, she is vulnerable, she is incredibly caring, she sort of looked after her sister in this extraordinary way despite a tricky upbringing. Even though she's created in the first film this sort of exoskeleton through damage, he can see into her and I think it's just a magnetic connection between them.

- FilmsNow Bloopers & Extras

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Newt's Expulsion

Graves examines the file on his desk.

GRAVES: You were thrown out of Hogwarts for endangering human life—

NEWT: That was an accident!

GRAVES: —with a beast. Yet one of your teachers argued strongly against your expulsion. Now, what makes Albus Dumbledore so fond of you?

- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay

J.K. Rowling: Dumbledore was a young teacher at the time Newt was expelled. He wasn't able to revoke expulsions.

- Twitter

J.K. Rowling: He took the blame for something someone else did. That's significant, but I can't tell you why. How did he keep his wand? That's also significant. I can't tell you why.

- Snitchseeker

Newt grew up in England, and fell in love wtih fantastic beasts at an early age. He attended Hogwarts, where he was placed in Hufflepuff house. He enjoyed learning about the training of magical creatures, as did his close freind Leta Lestrange. But one day, Leta went too far with an experiment that ended up endangering a fellow student's life. Instead of allowing his good freind to get expelled. New took the balme for Leta and was expelled in her place.

- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Magical Movie Handbook

NAME: Newton Artemis Fido Scamander

AGE: 29

RESIDENCE: England, United Kingdom

APPEARANCE: Hair: dark; Eyes: green/blue; Built: Tall and slim.

OFFENSE: Illegal possession of a magical beast causing endangerment of human life and violation of Animal Welfare Laws 101/304.

DATE: 1913

LOCATION: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, UnitedKingdom

LEVEL: 3

WITNESSES: Multiple.

NOTES: Proposed expulsion from Hogwarts School of Witchcraftand Wizardry due to the illegal possession of a magical beast causing endangerment of human life and violation of animal welfare laws 101/304.

Magical Beast: Jarvey, Level 3

Punishment: Expulsion from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

The expulsion was never enforced - Hogwarts Professor Albus Dumbledore defended Newton resulting in his name being cleared.

* The Ministry of Magic Animal Welfare Department were also informed of the violation and required to rehouse the magical creature.

- The Case of Beasts: Explore the Film Wizardry of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Upon graduation from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Mr. Scamander joined the Ministry of Magic in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures.

- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001 Edition

Upon leaving Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Mr. Scamander joined the Ministry of Magic in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures.

- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2017 Edition

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Tina & Credence

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them:

Katherine Waterston: Credence and Tina have a past. He doesn't remember it maybe, but she has been concerned about him for a while before the film starts.

- Mugglenet

Katherine Waterston: I found it really touching that the only thing that will tempt her to break her away from the position she has is if someone is in trouble. But by saving a No-Maj, she exposed herself as a magical person.

- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Movie-Making News: FANTASTIC BEASTS 2

Katherine Waterston: She broke the rules in order to protect someone who was in trouble. Though she's really proud to be a part of MACUSA and dreams of succeeding there, when push comes to shove she will abandon the rule book. I found it really touching. She loves the rules, but if someone's in trouble, she can't help herself.

- The Case of Beasts: Explore the Film Wizardry of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Inside the Obscurus, Credence reaches out to Tina, the only person who has ever done him an uncomplicated kindness. He looks at Tina, desperate and afraid. He has dreamed of her ever since she saved him from a beating.

- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay

Crimes of Grindelwald:

Katherine Waterston: Tina and Queenie were orphaned very young, Tina, as the elder of the two, felt a great responsibility to take care of her sister. Over the years, that feeling to protect helpless children extended beyond just Queenie. She values her position at work and respects the law, but a child in need－that's her Achilles Heel. If forced to choose, she'll break the rule to help a child, as she did for Credence when Mary Lou Barebone was beating him. Near the end of the first film, she gave Credence her word that she and Newt would protect him, and she is not one to go back on her word.

- Crimes of Grindelwald Production Notes

Katherine Waterston: I think you start to see a bit in the first film that a child in trouble is her Achilles' Heel, particularly an orphan child. As long as he is unsafe in the world, she has that concern to save him, and I think that stems from her own childhood. She and Queenie were orphaned young, and she knows what it's like to be a bit lost in the world, and she pulled herself up by her bootstraps, and she is a very hardy woman. I think she is just going to be forever distracted by Credence and his need until that is sorted.

- Crimes of Grindelwald World Premiere in Paris

Katherine Waterston: Her Achilles heel — the thing that kind of makes her throw the rulebook out the window — is a person, particularly a young person, in trouble, in need. There’s something almost of an obsession I think she has with Credence. She feels very responsible for him.

- Buzzfeed

Katherine Waterston: We find Tina in Paris along many other members of the original cast and some new characters. She is looking for Credence. There are people after him for different reasons, and obviously Tina cares about him a great deal and is trying to get to him first. 

- MTV News

Tina Goldstein has been reinstated as an Auror at MACUSA (Magical Congress of the USA), but, while she remains dedicated to the job of enforcing magical law, she has not lost her independent streak. Leaving New York, Tina has traveled to Paris on a cryptic—and wholly unauthorized—investigation of her own. She knows Credence survived MACUSA’s attempt to destroy him in New York, but she is also aware that, as an Obscurial, he is considered a threat to the wizarding community and is in grave danger. Employing all of her skills, Tina is finally closing in on Credence, but her perilous pursuit has also put her on a collision course with other powerful forces hunting him.

- Crimes of Grindelwald Official Character Description

Katherine Waterston: Tina isn't confident that the ministry would approve of her desire to protect and save Credence. They are seeking him for a different reason, and so she's kind of doing this investigation on the sly.

- Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - Makers, Mysteries and Magic: Chapter 5

Katherine Waterston: She's continuing a sort of rebellious pursuit in trying to protect Credence.

- Bowu Magazine

Katherine Waterston: It's a little unclear whether MACUSA knows her whereabouts. Tina isn’t confident they would approve of her desire to save Credence. They are seeking him for a different reason.

- Lights, Camera, Magic!: The Making of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Ezra Miller: Yeah, I mean certainly we’ve seen sort of only fragments of a story in which Tina did care for Credence, and that was a rare and noted instance in Credence’s story. But again, when you really think about it, what does Credence actually know about that human being, where she comes from? I mean, the last interaction was a deeply confusing one where there were a lot of things going on on the subway tracks, you know? So yeah, I think that’s one of the connections.

- Collider

ANGLE ON TINA, edging through the crowd, searching.

She spots QUEENIE and, at a short distance, CREDENCE. Whom should she approach first? She chooses CREDENCE, but as she moves, is blocked by an ACOLYTE. They make eye contact. TINA knows she is wildly outnumbered. Under the ACOLYTE'S gaze, she sinks onto a bench.

- Crimes of Grindelwald: The Original Screenplay

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Tina & Newt in the Major Investigation Department - Inside the Magic & The Goldstein Sisters featurette

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Tina & Newt in the Department Store - The Magizoologist, Before Harry Potter: A New Era Of Magic Begins, The Goldstein Sister, Inside the Magic & Case of Beasts

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ICW at MACUSA Pentagram Office - Inside the Magic

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Tina, Queenie, Jacob & Newt in the Blind Pig - Inside the Magic, Case of Beasts, Behind the Scenes Featurette, Shaping the World: The Blind Pig & Go Behind the Scenes

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Jacob climbing into his apartment and opens the case - Case of Beasts & Inside the Magic

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Queenie at the MACUSA lobby - behind the scenes and Inside the Magic

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Newton Scamander: February 24th, 1897

Porpentina Esther Goldstein: August 19th, 1901

Jacob Kowalski: 26 by December 5th 1926 (Inside the Magic: The Making of Fantastic Beasts), thus born in 1900

Queenie Goldstein: January 6th, 1903 (The Archive of Magic)

Credence Barebone: November 9th, 1904/1901 (The Archive of Magic/ Crimes of Grindelwald Screenplay)

Theseus Scamander: eight years Newt's senior (Lights, Camera, Magic!), thus born on 1889

Leta Lestrange: Same age as Newt (Crimes of Grindelwald Screenplay), thus born on 1897

Yusuf Kama: 12 years old in 1896 (Crimes of Grindelwald Screenplay), thus born on 1884

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Newton Artemis Fido Scamander - nicknamed 'Newt' - is from a very well-established English wizarding family.

When the Great War erupted, Newt served his country in a confidential programme for the Ministry of Magic's Beast Division.

Newt's primary charge was handling dragons, particularly Ukranian Ironbellies, on the Eastern Front. The programme failed because the dragons would only respond to him and tried to eat everyone else.

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Porpentina Goldstein

Porpentina Goldstein, or Tina for short, works in the Wand Permit Office of the Magical Congress of the United States of America having been recently been demoted from her position as an Auror in the Investigations Department for an infraction that resulted in her exposure as a witch to No-Majs.

"She broke the rules in order to protect someone who was introuble," explains actress Katherine Waterston of Tina who also has to wear an Admonitor bracelet as a result of her recklessness. "Though she's really proud to be a part of MACUSA and dreams of succeeding there, when push comes to shove she will abandon the rule book. I found it really touching. She loves the rules, but if someone's in trouble, she can't help herself.

"She is a bit of a loner, and is underappreciated," says producer David Heyman. "She's really good at her job but has been demoted. Ultimately though, her instincts are proved right."

When Tina first meets Newt in Fantastic Beasts and Where to FindThem, their interaction couldn't be any less romantic: she arrests him in an alleyway outside Steen National Bank and brings him to MACUSA for processing."My general sense of who he is at the beginning is he's dangerous and untrustworthy, and probably kind of cute," laughs Katherine Waterston. "Part of what I love about Tina is she's flawed and often doesn't achieve what she is pursuing or things don't work out for her [like] she hopes. But she is good at her job and the moment she sees Newt she knows something is going on, even though she doesn't exactly know what. And that, to me, was the first clue that she's not a total disaster. She has good instincts. She knows she has a lot of potential, but can't seem to convince people of it.

"I think Newt sees that potential in her," she continues. "That's a lot of what falling in love is, you feel someone else recognizing what you have to offer. As their relationship evolves, she sees what's motivating him, and then you start to notice they are both very passionate about what they do, they are both a little stunted, not very good at expressing themselves, and you start to see the reasons why they have become that way. He's very isolated in his work. She is taking care of her sister because they lost their parents when they were young. They're two people who really haven't had too much time to have a good time. In contrast to Jacob and Queenie who are much freer."

Tina lives with her sister, Queenie (actress-Alison Sudol), who also works at MACUSA, in a brownstone in Midtown Manhattan. Being orphans, they look out for each other as best they can. "They parent teach other in different ways - they are very different women," says Waterston. "I'm a bit more the father and she's bit more the mother. She's got a very generous maternal quality. She cooks beautiful, elaborate meals. And maybe in their loneliness they've fallen into that dynamic [of] where I'm trying to be the breadwinner and she's doing the ironing. On some level it's a throwback relationship. On another level they're like two kids in their bunk bed."

"Katherine plays the darker side of the sisters," says Fogler, whose character Jacob falls for Queenie. "She's more cerebral, but also has this great vulnerability. Katherine's a fantastic actress and what she brings to the role is a very specific sensitivity, but also strength. Each one of them is trying to find themselves. They're all fish out of water; quirky misfits who form this little family. And each one has something that is beneficial to save the day."

"You have these two sisters who have raised each other and so we have a very deep bond," says Sudol. "But it's an isolated and lonely life, and these two men come into our world and they're very, very different and exciting and intriguing and our lives are suddenly transformed within a night, being on the run and part of a gang. I think that's something we all want to do. We all want to be part of a gang."

Like Fogler with Jacob, Waterston found much to connect to with hercharacter. "I loved [Tina's] duality when I first read the script. She's a courageous coward. I found that easy to relate to. Most people are not one thing. We all have lots of different, often contradictory qualities bubbling to the surface all the time. We all [have] these different levels of fear and courage, confidence and desire."

"Katherine is very much like Eddie," notes director David Yates. "She can be deeply intense in a good way, and she can be very, very funny. She's got a great physical ability at comedy, which is quite rare. It's a really interesting range. I loved that combination."

"The thing I like about Tina is the complexity," concludes Waterston. "She's inconsistent, she has strengths and weakness and though she's sometimes quite courageous, she can also be intimidated by certain dynamics and situations. She's very soulful, she has a lot of heart, and a bit of ambition in the best sense of the word. She has a deep belief in herself but hasn't quite figured out how to [utilize it]."

"In the Harry Potter world, the magical and the non-magical live in harmony," says Katherine Waterston. "They're aware of each other and magic is much more accepted. In 1920s Amercia you find a very divided society. The magical community is very concerned and fearful of being exposed and there are hints throughout of Salem. And although it's not explored in great detail, you see the concern and fear of being exposed, and that is what gets Tina in trouble. By saving someone she exposes herself as a witch."

Tina's Costume

Tina's outfit, says Atwood, were determined by both her personality and the fact that she's been demoted from her position of an Auror at MACUSA and is trying to work her way back into favor with her bosses. "Tina is one of those quirky girls, a bit gawky, not quite there in her body. I made the decision to put her in trousers from the start, which was not so common in the period but did exist. She's hiding a lot, doing her own private eye thing, so I gave her a trench coat with a really big collar she could tuck her head behind."

Goldstein's Apartment

The home Tina shares with her sister Queenie is a two-room apartmentspread over one floor of a brownstone. Originally written to be their mother's apartment, the styling is "more the taste of an older generation in its furnishing," Craig explains.

"It is very Victorian, the weight of everything, the weight of architectural detail. The fireplaces are huge- big, big chunks of marble- in the style of those brownstones. We took that, we embraced it, and exaggerated it. That was the prominent feature: heavy architecture and dark, dark colors, and very Victorian in detail. It is principally two room with what is called apocket door, a sliding door in between the two. In our case, one was the living room and the back was a shared bedroom. The kitchen was one corner of the living space. It was a big house by definition but they had a very small part of it. They lived very modestly."

- Case of Beasts

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Taken from Inside the Magic: The Making of Fantastic Beasts

Porpentina Goldstein

At first glance, Porpentina Goldstein or 'Tina' Goldstein is a no-nonsense, career-driven New York witch. Indeed. She is the first of a magical persuasion to spot that Newt might be more than a passing tourist.

Dressed in her usual smart but inconspicuous mix of above-the-ankle trousers, grey overcoat and balck cloche hat, she trails him into the bank; there, she is appalled to witness the wizard use hhis wand in broad daylight and promptly arrest him. Newt is clearly an exposure risk to the secretive MACUSA. He may also be a chance for Tina to redeem herself.

Tina has run into her own problems at MACUSA. 'She's recently been demoted,' explains Katherine Waterston, the NewYork-based actress who is bringing this complicated witch to the screen. 'She's gone from being a detective to the lowly work in the Wand Permit Office. Basically stamping passports.’

Up until her downrturn in fortune Tina wasa Auror, a wizard detective tasked with investigating crimes. But as director David Yates explains, 'She had done something really bad.' What her crime might be is revealed over the course of the movie. 'Like Newt,' he says, 'she is a wee bit of an outsider.’

Waterston finds her character fascinating. Nothing is quite what it seems. Tina is really proud to be a part of MACUSA. She still hopes to make something of herself there. Yet she also slinks about New York doing her own investigation like a private eye from an old-schoolcrime movie.

'Tina has good instincts,' hits Waterston. 'She is good at her job. But when push comes to shove, she will abandon the rulebook.' She is a woman of great potential, but she just hasn't found a way to realize it yet, with pretty bobbed hair and a stern gaze.

Yates was taken with Waterston from the moment she walked into the first audition. She displayed similar qualities to Eddie Redmayne. 'Very much like Eddie, she can be quite deeply intense in a good way, and she can be very, very funny. She's got a great physical ability at comedy, which is quite rare. She's also a really powerful actor. I loved that combination.’

Waterston doesn't count herself as any kind of expert on the history of Harry Potter. She had seen some of the films, read some of the books, but admits she hadn't got a completely lost in the world. She also thinks that may not be a bad thing.

'I felt in a fortunate place,' she says, 'because I wasn't so obsessed that I had a lot of preconceived notions, but I was familiar enough to have a sense of the tone of the world.’

She also had a plenty of opportunity to pick the brains of J.K Rowling, who provided a wealth of knowledge on Tina.

'You just want to curl up by the fire withher and hear her stories,' sighs Waterston happily. 'She sees a whole, incredibly detailed universe.’

Two key relationship will emerge in Tina's busy corner of that universe. Firstly, with her sister Queenie, played by Alison Sudol, with whom she shares a small Brownstone apartment.

Tina and Queenie lost their parents to a Dragon Pox when they were young, and at different times have been a parent to one another. 'in their loneliness they've fallen into that dynamic,' says Waterston. Tina, she admits, may be a bit more the father, and Queenie the mother, cooking these wonderful meals. Queenie is as vivacious as Tina is restrained, yet they couldn't be closer.

'It feels true to me, the way Tina and Queenie relate to one another,' insists Waterston. Having only just met, she and Sudol developed an instant chemistry as they shot the scene of the Goldsteins preparing dinner for Newt and Jacob. It was their first day working together and they had to glide about the kitchen casting spells with their wands as if it was second nature.

'We kind of scrambled to figure it out –whose chore is whose?' recalls Waterston. 'I'm sort of setting the table with my wand and she's preparing the meal. We developed a little, superstitious salt-over-the-shoulder thing, just to give the audience a sense of their life together.’

Then, of course, there is Newt. Someone Tina can't quite figure out. Not at first. 'Part of what I love about Tina is that she's flawed,' says Waterston. 'Things don't work out for her. She meets Newt and she suspects there is something to him, but she doesn't know exactly what.’

Throughout the first film, as she watches him interact with his fantastic beasts and sees the way he is, Tina will come to view Newt in a different light.

'With Katherine's character, it is sort of a slow-build connection,' says Redmayne, 'these two people, who are outsiders yet passionate people, begins to glimpse things in one another.’

Waterston describes it as a love story albeit in an unconventional way. They have a lot of to deal with in the meantime – escaped beasts, death sentences, going on the run, tackling the outbreak of dark magic – and yet Newt sees all the potential in her that she has trouble seeing in herself. 'At first, she thinks he's dangerous and untrustworthy, and potentially kind of cute too,' she says. 'Then as the relationship evolves you start to notice parallels between them. I mean, both are very passionate but not very good at expressing themselves.’

She pauses, trying to capture one of the themes of the film: 'It can be lonely being an oddball until you find another oddball.’

Tina's Costume

'Tina Goldstein is a little bit gawky. A little bit not quite there in her body and just a little bit off in her costume. She was sort of a modern girl, and I made an acting decision to put her in trousers from the start, which was not so common in the period. She had an element of what the Aurors wore but not really. Hence the trousers. She was hiding a lot and doing her own private-eye things. So I gave her a trenchcoat with a really big collar she could tuck her head behind doing this kind of stealthy spying work.’

Tina's Wand

When it came to her wand, Katherine Waterston requested some 'heft'. She wanted to make Tina's spell-casting forceful, as if magic was something she takes very seriously. 'Tina's was nice,' says Pierre Bohanna. 'Quite simple and quite classic.’

The Goldstein Department

Named for the dark sandstone bricks used tobuild Manhattan's famous townhouses, most Brownstones were converted into apartments in the 1920s. Not wealthy, the Goldsteins occupy a couple of rooms within one such conversion.

Furthermore, Tina and Queenie will prepared inner for their guests with the help of familiar spells. Jacob, recovering from a nasty bite from a Murtlap, wonders whether he is having a hallucinogenic episode. ‘He's chucked onto this sofa and the girls suddenly swish their wands around and plates fly from everywhere and food is being chopped,' says visual effects supervisor Christian Manz, 'and we go into incredible detail about baking an apple strudel magically. But it feels workaday, it feels normal to them.’ 

'We've got little napkins flying like birds, we've got a book jacket that move around,' he recalls. Irons work on their own accord, a clothes-horse revolves to ensure both sides face the fire, and there is a lovely dress on a mannequin that Queenie is mending remotely. 

The idea, says actress Katherine Waterston, is 'to give the audience a sense of the Goldsteins' life together that is very insulated and private.' Having two men visit, she insists, is a 'freak exception'.

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MACUSA'S Hard-Working Employees

The Goldstein Sisters

Porpentina Goldstein and her younger sister, Queenie, dispense and file permit applications for foreign wizards visiting New York City, as required. Tina joins MACUSA after graduation from Ilvermony of Witchcraf and Wizardry, and worked as an Auror untile she was discovered performing magic in front of crowd of No-Majs-the Second Salemers, or to  be exact-causing a big scandal, as it entailed Obliviating the large group. Subsequent to the Episode, Goldstein was demoted to become a Federal Wnd Permit Officer.

'She loves the rules,' says Katherinw Waterston, who plays Tina. 'She wants to stick by them. Tina has real skills as an Auror, but unfortunately because she doesn't always handle situations as well as she hopes to, she's been demoted at work. She is good at her job, if she can manage to get her career back on track, someday she might be respected at MACUSA. She's really proud to be part of it and dreams of succeeding there. But if someone's in trouble, she can't help herself. Ultimately there was something more important to her, and that's why we find her stamping application in the basement.'

And yet Tina did break the rule. 'I found it really touching that the only thing that will tempt her to break her away from the position she has is if someone is in trouble.' says Waterston. 'But by saving a No-Maj, she exposed herself as a magical person.'

Tina spots Newt Scamander as she serreptitiously spies on the Second Salemers in front of the bank. When she sees him take out his wand and Disapparate with Jacob, she knows that first, he's a wizard, and second, something is going on that shouldn't be.' She has good instincts,' Waterston says with a laugh. 'She's not a total disaster.'

When Newt and Tina meet, 'She's sort of got her wings clipped,' says Eddie Redmayne. 'But there's a strong work ethic to her and a desperation to prove herself.' So when confronted with Newt bringing his creatures into New York, Tina has to make some hard decisions.

'With Newt and his case, the main problem is that it's a lot easier for witches and wizards to hide from the No-Maj world than to hide magical creatures, especially ones that are on the loose in the community,' she explains. 'So that's the number one threat.' Waterston feels it's the same principle as if zoo animal, like a lion or an elephant, were let out in the middle of the city. 'It would be disatrous,' she explains. 'They plough things over, they break things, they could harm people. For most of the film, Tina is just imagining the worst-case scenario.'

The worst-case scenario includes exposure to the No-Maj community. 'In Amercian, as it's established in the film, we've been taught that magical creatures is a bad thing,' Waterston continues. 'We should not have them at all, not in America and certainly not on the loose. She's almost panicked to get them back.' In her interaction with the beasts as the're tracked down and recovered, Tina galves a better appreciation for Newt. 'So when push comes to shove, she again abandons the rule book and helps someone in trouble.'

Colleen strongly considered Tina’s job, or her former job, when creating her outfits. ‘She had been thrown out of a certain world that she’d been part of, so she was part of that world but not anymore. So Tina wore elements of what the Aurors wore, hence the trousers.’

As a result of her role in the capture of Gellert Grindelwald, Tina Goldstein is reinstated as an Auror for MACUSA. ‘At the beginning of the second film, Tina’s been an Auror for a while now, and is thriving in that position,’ says Katherine Waterston. But Waterston believes her character learned some important lessons when she was relegate to the Wand Permit Office. ‘Although she was nervous about her career, she never fully lost her confidence in following her instinct. Her following those instincts led to Grindelwald’s arrest! When you see her now, she’s back in the thick of it.’

One of the first scenes the actresses shot together was when Tina brings Jacob and Newt to their apartment and offers them dinner. Katherine says, 'What’s so amazing and insane about working in film is that sometimes you’ve just met a person and then you have to move around in a space together as though you do it every day. So we scrambled to figure out, "How would they prepare the room together? Whose chores are whose?"'Queenie seems to be doing most if not all the cooking. 'So I was setting the table with my wand.' The sisters also participate in some everyday and comfortable banter, in which Queenie chides Tina for having only a frankfurter for lunch, and Tina snaps back with a quick ‘Don’t read my mind.’ Wasterston describes it as 'a sort of witchy way that sisters engage with one another'.

'Their world is very insulated and private,' she adds. ‘They don’t often have any guests so this is a total freak exception, which added another level to it. It was really fun to figure out how to show the private and the new experiences at the same time.’

Though her character is older, Katherine feels that they both parent each other at differen times. ‘And I’m a bit more the father and she’s a bit more the mother. Queenie has a generous, maternal quality to her. She cooks beautiful, elaborate meals. And maybe, in their loneliness, they’ve fallen into that dynamic, where I’m trying to be the breadwinner, and she’s doing the ironing. On one level it’s a throwback relationship: they’re the mother and the father they lost. Then also, there are aspects to both of them that I think are underdeveloped, because they never really got to be kids. So, on another level, they’re like two kids in their bunk bed, and maybe part of the journey in the film is just bringing them to their actual place in the world.’

Newt and Tina:

As they work to recover the beasts, Tina Goldstein and Newt Scamander develop a mutual respect for each other – and maybe a little bit more.

‘It’s wonderful how, throughout the film, they reveal little bits of their past and certainly reveal a great deal of their character to each other, ‘ says Katherine, ‘As things are when you first meet someone, you get a very general sense of who they are. My sense of who Newt is at the beginning is that he’s dangerous and untrustworthy, and kind of cute, too,’ she says with a laugh. ‘As the relationship evolves, she sees what’s motivating him and why he is the way he is.’ Waterston found the parallels between their characters which could encourage a deeper relationship. ‘They are both very passionate about what they do. They are both a little stunted, not very good at expressing themselves. And then you start to see the reason why they have become that way. He’s very isolated in his work. She’s become the parent to her sister, Queenie, because they lost their parents when they were young. So they’re these two people who really haven’t had much time to have a good time.’ Their personalities are even more apparaent in contrast to Jacob’s and Queenie’s. ‘They’re much freer, and it’s in that contrast that you see how trapped they are. The moments where a little bit of who they really are gets to come out, it’s really exciting. And as the film goes on, that starts to happen more and more.’

Catching the Demiguise Scene:

The quartet needs to get the Demiguise and Occamy back into Newt’s case, but Eddie claims that there’s more than that going on at the time. 'He sends Jacob and Queenie off in one direction while he and Tina get closer to the Demiguise.'

‘In order to surprise him, Newt has to appear entirely relaxed and unpredictable, but the Demiguise knows him; he already has a sense of what he’s going to do. So Newt encourages Tina to just be casual. That it’s going to be up to her to catch the Demiguise, because he knows less about her.’ Eddie considers this an important moment between Newt and Tina. 'I think that not only is Newt trying to find the Demiguise, but subconsciously he’s beginning to enjoy the proximity with Tina.'

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Porpentina "Tina" Goldstein

Audacious Auror

As an Auror, Tina excelled at investigating crimes against the wizarding community. However, her unwillingness to move past one particular, controversial case - despite the instruction of her superiors - led to her eventual demotion to the Wand Permit Office.

Jacob Kowalski

Jacob's Apartment

Jacob Kowalski dwells in a Polish neighbourhood on the lower east side.

Many of the immigrants from the early 1900s did not have the resources to afford adequate housing, forcing them to find shelter in cheaply constructed, multistory apartement building called tenements. These tenements were often unsanitary and unsafe.

Queenie Goldstein

Supportive Sister

As the sisters grew older, their positions reversed. Queenie started looking after Tina, who could sometimes become fixated on her Job. Queenie is supportive of her sister's passions, but she tries to keep her out of trouble.

Goldstein Residence

Tina and Queenie rent an apartment in an old brownstone. It's not luxurious by any means, but the two sisters fill it with their favorite things, which gaves it warmth and a homey appeal all its own.

Credence Barebone

Percival Graves, a MACUSA Auror, comes to Credence asking for help. Graves thinks that one of the children may have an Obscurus, as many odd happenings have occurred around the NSPS. In the meantime, Graves promises to make Crednece part of a family who accept him for who he truly is.

Department Store

A magical charm that Newt sends out to locate the other escaped beasts leads him and Tina to a large departemnt store. These two share a special moment under a Chirstmas tree before discovering that Dougal, an invisible Demiguise, is there to watch over Newt's newly hatched Occamy.

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Newton"Newt" Artemis Fido Scamander

Echo-detection Charms

Ripples of force emanate and rebound, Newt uses echolocation to locate his missing beasts. When the beasts are detected, the ripples rebound back in Newt's direction, letting him know he's on the right track.

Porpentina " Tina' Goldstein

Stubborn Surveillance

The fact that she's no longer an Auror hasn't stopped Tina from continuing her surveillance of the New Salem Philanthropic Society. She regularly attends their rallies despite having been instructed not to do so.

High Alert

Other than her locket, the only other shiny accessory Tina wears is a silver device around her wrist called an Admonitor. This magical tracker glows red at trouble some times.

Seraphina Picquery

The President of Maucsa and Tina don't see eye to eye about how Tina conducts herself prefessionally, which led to the latter losing her Job as Auror. Tina thinks that if she can prove her worth to the organization again, they may reinstate her in her former role.

Queenie Goldstein

Younger Sister

Despite Queenie being the younger sister, she often acts as the older one, remind Tina how to eat right and lecturing her on the pitfalls of her continued surveillance of the Second Salemers. Queenie is very protective of her sister.

Relationships

Abernathy

As the boss in charge of the Wand Permit Office at MACUSA. Abernathy is always asking Tina about Queenie's absences. Queenie is not a "career girl" like her sister, and tries to spend little time in the basement with her Wand Permit Offcie colleagues.

Jacob Kowalski

Polish Pioneer

Jacob's family comes from Poland. Having recently returned to America's shores from Europe after serving in the Great War, he is eager to embark on a new adventure and become a self-made man, baking and selling Polish pastries.

War Weary

During the Great War, Jacob joined the American Expeditionary Force and fought in Europe. He stayed on his birth continent for six years after the war before deciding to travel back to America and start a new life.

Dire Strait

Jacob dwells in a run-down tenement in New York's Lower East Side. His meager homestead is in such bad shape that he has to enter the apartment by climbing in through the fire escape window.

Percival Graves

Inquisitive Interrogator

Before Newt and Tina faces execution, Graves enters their cell to find out more about the Obscurus that is wreaking havoc through New York.

Magical Moment

While having a secret meeting at a diner with Credence, Graves turns an ordinary, wilted carnation into a Periculid, a beautiful but deadly magical flower.

Relationships

Newt Scamander

Graves is suspicious of Newt from the very beginning because of the Magizoologist's ties to Albus Dumbledore. Graves does not trust Dumbledore or his intentions, and he suspects that the great wizard sent Newt to New York for some greater purpose.

MACUSA Employees

Name: Ranjit

Profession; MACUSA Auror

Ranjit is one of President Picquery's handpicked investigators. She tasks him with investigating the root cause of the disturbance in New York City.

Name: Beryl

Profession: MACUSA Staff

Beryl has found that following the lives of witches and wizards is far more enjoyable than being one. On any given day, she can be found in the MACUSA basement, avoiding work while reading a magazine.

Name: Abernathy

Profession: Head of Wand Permit Office at MACUSA

Though he's nearly the same age as Tina Goldstein, and younger than some of the other workers who labor in his office, Abernathy insists that his subordinates all refer to him as "sir".

Name: Sam

Profession: MACUSA Oblivator

Even though he's an Obliviator, work is rarely the forefront thing on Sam's mind. He would much rather entertain witches by taking them to his private booth at the Scalded Dragon. Sam is quick to flash his handsome mug at those whose hearts he might later break.

MACUSA Department

Aurors 

Aurors constitute the authoritative force of MACUSA. They investigate cases concerning magical used for dark purpose, and bring any culprits to the Congress for reckoning.

Executioners

Executioners obey the will of the Congress and terminate the lives of witches and wizards who have committed serious or dangerous crimes.

Obliviators

Obliviators help keep the wizarding wolrd secret by erasing the memories of No-Majs who witness magical acts. They also do the same to rogue wizards.

Exterminators 

The combat troops of MACUSA. Exterminators are ready for action at a moment's notice. They are tasked with hunting down fantastic creautures and corrupt wizards.

Healers

When basic medicine and healing potions aren't enough, witches and wizards turn to MACUSA'S Healers, first-rate caregivers with deep knowledge of curative spells.

The Obscurus

Living in a Box

Newt knows that Obscurus still exist. He encounters one recently in Sudan, Africa. He found a young girl who had been shut away by her tribe because she showed signs of magic. The Obscurus was taking her over, depleting her strength, and killing her. Newt was able to separate the Obscurus from the child just before she died. He trapped it inside a shimmering black box and put it inside his case so he could study it. Newt insists that without the host child, this Obscurus is harmless.