A few days later when Ruby was supposed to come visit with her from school, she received a letter from the British Ministry of Magic.
Tina,
We need you to come in to pick up your niece and to go over some ground rules with her in order to prevent her from rallying support from any of Grindelwald's followers
who are still free.
Theseus
Tina had decided to bring Jacob along in order to meet his older sister for the first time. When the two of them arrived at the Ministry they were directed to the office of
Magical Law Enforcement where they saw a teenage girl outside in tears. Tina took a look at the girl and noted the resemblance to Queenie at that age and wondered if she
was her niece that she was here to pick up. She then approached the girl and asked "What are you crying about?"
"They won't let me go and see my mother. You must be my aunt that I'm spending the summer with and this must be my little brother." Ruby answered her aunt while
looking down at Jacob.
"I will talk to the officials here about letting them go and see your mother, since I plan on leaving for America in a few days. I think that I will have to let you travel with me.
If you're Ruby then this is your little brother and he will be living with us, so you will have a chance to get to know him. I don't know if you ever got to see him before he
went to the orphanage or not."
Tina had a feeling why they wouldn't let Ruby see her mother since she recognized her immediately and she didn't think that Queenie had any pictures of her in order to show
Ruby. She took Jacob with her to her meeting with Magical Law Enforcement since she didn't know if she could trust him with Ruby alone at this time.
"Is there any particular reason that you will not allow my niece to see her mother before she's executed?"
Theseus looked shocked at her question and remembered that she was close to her sister until she had joined Grindelwald and that she had grieved her joining his side during
the past wizarding war. She also recognized the look that she gave him since she had given it to Newt quite a few times when she was irritated with him about something.
"You know that we monitor all prisoner's communications with anyone from the outside world, especially with someone who was raised in Grindelwald's headquarters. It turns
out that Ruby is a legilimens too and she can communicate with her mother mentally, which we cannot monitor." Theseus answered her looking uncomfortable.
"If she wasn't a legilimens like her mother than you would let her visit her own mother?"
"Yes, since we can monitor all forms of communication between them if that was the case."
"This will be the last time that she will be able to see her mother, so it would be important for Ruby to be able to see her. I'm sure that Ruby is not interested in taking up
Grindelwald's cause since he did kill her father. I do understand the importance of monitoring prisoner's communications with the outside world, but isn't there anything that
could be done. She can come over with me since I am going over there to see her before her execution and bringing Jacob with me. You mentioned some ground rules for
having her stay with me for the summer."
"Yes, well she will need to stay in your home at all times, unless she comes with you and to places where she is unlikely to meet any of Grindelwald's followers. You would
also need to monitor her communications to make sure that she isn't planning to take Grindelwald's place."
"I am to be her jailer even though she hasn't done anything wrong personally. She can't help what her mother did and who she lived with, besides while she was at school,
she came into contact with young witches and wizards who came from different backgrounds. Besides her own mother helped her father's muggle family get out of Poland
after Hitler's invasion, so she wasn't completely exposed by evil there was some goodness in Queenie even as one of Grindelwald's inner circle. There is also word going
around about a new dark wizard coming up that Queenie has been talking about though the part about him eating a human heart is hard to believe, there could be some truth
in it, since her execution has been delayed so she could provide information on this new dark wizard."
"All of this was taken into consideration when we were deciding in letting her spend the summer with you. I know that you can help her to show the right path and not to
become a dark witch like her mother, even though her mother did do some good things the bottom line is that she was a member of Grindelwald's inner circle. There are
other ways to try to change a law instead of running off and joining a dark wizard, like her father he established a partnership with a writer giving him book ideas from things
that he saw in the wizarding world even one where a witch marries a muggle."
"Didn't that writer die mysteriously while on holiday in Rio de Janiero? I will treat her like any other child in trying to keep her on the straight and narrow, though I wasn't
successful with Queenie. Though she only joined Grindelwald because she thought that he would be the one to bring about change in America where she could be with Jacob,
even though they broke up right after she joined Grindelwald's side. For Ruby, I will check up on her friends to make sure that they are the right sort of people, though I
would want to encourage her to write to her family, even the ones who supported Grindelwald's cause and disowned her father for being a squib. It would also be better for
her to stay with family rather than being torn apart from us in order to put her in a reeducation camp, like some of the family members of Grindelwald's high-ranking
followers. This can also give her a chance to spend time with her brother that she may not have even met."
"Yes that writer did, but at least her father did give him ideas for his bestselling books. We have already agreed to let her stay with you for those reasons, but under the
guidelines that I have given to you. "
"I guess I can live with those conditions, since I don't think there would be anywhere, she would want to go or visit anyone since she doesn't know anyone here. Jacob and I
are the only family that she has right now, since Queenie is in prison waiting to be executed. Is there anything that we can do to let her visit her mother. I do plan on going to
America to see Queenie before she is to be executed, so she would have to come with me too in order to follow the rules that she must follow." Tina informed Theseus.
"She can travel with you to America, but I don't know if she would be able to visit with her mother while there. That would need to be something that you would need to take
up with MACUSA. Queenie though would be able to see Jacob while you're there, since he was not exposed to Grindelwald's ideas living in a muggle orphanage. That way she
can see that you're caring for him and how much he's grown since she last saw him. One other concern with you bringing Ruby to America, even if she doesn't get to see her
mother is her legilimens ability. She could sense what is going on with her mother and try to rescue her, like her own mother did in 1926. Yes, I do know about that even
though you and Newt's death sentences weren't warranted. I had the duty to tell our parents after I received notification of his sentence. It took longer for us to receive
notification that he had survived and was exonerated of his crimes. That is why after he returned to England, he was banned from traveling internationally, I couldn't put
myself and our parents through that again."
"There are ways to prevent her from trying to break her mother out of prison, and I'm sure that she knows about her mother's crimes. She knows that her mother really did
commit those crimes unlike Newt and I who were convicted without any examination of the evidence."
"You will need to talk with someone from MACUSA when you get to America about Ruby seeing her mother. I don't have a final say in this, since she is being held in America
where they have the final say about who can and can't visit Queenie. Ruby had the nerve to tell me that it is okay for me to love again after the death of my fiancée that it
has been long enough for me to mourn Leta. She even informed me that Phoenix from the office liked me as well."
"Really, it has been almost twenty years since Leta's death, I'm sure that she would want to see you happy even if it wasn't with her."
"Thanks a lot, I don't need any help with my love life, especially from a 17-year old daughter of a criminal. I get enough of that from my parents who apparently want
grandchildren and it looks like Newt would at least give them one grandchild, so they don't need to bother me. It is eerie though how she can see what one is really thinking.
That could cause her a lot of heartache later on especially now since people wouldn't know what to think of her. On one hand the daughter of one of Grindelwald's inner circle
but her father was killed by Grindelwald. Her mother did get her father's muggle extended family out of Poland after Hitler invaded it. At least Newt doesn't care what other
people think or say he does his own thing. You can let her know that I will date when and if I am ready not before then."
Tina then went back out into the hall where she found Ruby looking like she was mediating, trying to get what she had heard in other people's heads out of her own. Tina
knew that with her being upset over the sudden changes in her life that it would make her legilimancy worse, where she can't help but read other people's minds.
"Come on let's go home where you can rest after your long day. I did talk to Mr. Scamander and according to the rules that he set forth in letting you stay with me you will be
able to go to America right before your mother's execution. I will need to talk to the officials at MACUSA about allowing you to see your mother before she is executed. Your
legillmancy is what is making it hard for them to allow you to see her. They know that you can communicate with each other through your minds, which is something that
they can't monitor and they need to monitor all of her communications, to make sure that she isn't planning another uprising with Grindelwald's supporters. Also Mr.
Scamander finds it uncomfortable that you wish to interfere in his love life. I hope that you were told that you were not to leave my home unless accompanied by myself. I
hope that you will feel welcome in spite of the restrictions on your movements."
Ruby went with her aunt and brother to see where she was going to spend the summer except for when they were going to America. When they got to Tina's flat, Ruby
noticed with dismay how much smaller it was than her former home.
"I know that it's not a castle but it's home for right now. At least you have a place to stay that isn't in a reeducation camp. Also your brother, Jacob will be here and this will
be a time for you to get to know him, since I don't know how much time you got to spend with him before your mother put him in an orphanage." Tina informed her niece and
then pointed her to the bedroom where she would be staying. Ruby went to her room where she would be spending most of the summer and took a nap after her long
journey and the interrogation at the British Ministry. She woke up to the sound of a strange man in the flat and she immediately grabbed her wand thinking that she was in
danger. When she heard her aunt greet him. When she came into the living room to see him, she could tell who he was. He was her aunt's boyfriend, the one who had ruined
her life. She wanted to attack him, but she knew that her aunt wouldn't like that and would probably send her off to a reeducation camp where she wouldn't have a chance to
get to know Jacob. This Newt guy was the reason that her mother had gotten involved with Grindelwald in the first place which caused her to grow up without her father for
much of her life and shortly after she was reunited with her father, he was killed by Grindelwald.
"Ruby, this is my boyfriend Newt Scamander. Newt, this is my niece Ruby." Newt took one look at Ruby and noticed how much she resembled her mother.
"Are you related to that guy at the Ministry who interrogated me?" Ruby asked Newt.
"Are you asking about my brother, Theseus?"
"Yes, that is who I am talking about. He's your brother?" Ruby answered.
"Yes, he is." Newt told her trying to avert her gaze.
"You ruined my life." Ruby exclaimed before storming off to her room.
"How did Mr. Scamander ruin your life? You just met him." Tina asked her niece after she went into her room.
"First off he gave my real father some eggs that he could sell to get money for his bakery, not making him interested in moving to Europe where he could be with my mother.
He also caused him to meet my mother by taking him to your flat. After my mother found out that she was pregnant with me she even tried to get him to move abroad where
they could be together and when that didn't work, she put a love spell on him in order to marry her. Of course, before they could get married, she had to visit Mr. Scamander
to make sure that he wasn't two timing you and he called her out on the love spell. He removed the spell right before she was persuaded to join Grindelwald that caused her
break up with my real dad that caused me to be born a bastard. "Ruby told her aunt.
"How do you know all of that?" Tina asked having a suspicion what the answer would be.
"I saw it in his mind." Ruby answered nonchalantly.
Tina went to the living room where she found Newt playing with Jacob and glared at him.
"We need to talk now because Ruby told me some interesting things and you cannot deny it. Do I need to remind you that she is like her mother." She told him.
"What did she tell you?" Newt asked sound worried.
"That you provided the means for Jacob to open up his bakery before we even knew that she was a squib, which as a no maj would be against the law in America for you to
do, since wizards are not allowed to have any contact with them." Tina informed him.
"You know that I felt that law was stupid and backwards, besides there were those who took advantage of the law such as Jacob Sr.'s muggle father who was married to a
witch who died in childbirth. He remarried another muggle and immigrated to America in order to escape his former wizarding in laws whom he felt tried to harm Jacob Sr.
because he had no magical ability." Newt answered.
"Yes, but when you gave him a way to get the money to open his bakery, you didn't know that. We didn't even know that he was a squib until three months after we met you
and then we didn't know the whole story. Queenie discovered the whole story when Grindelwald took over the Polish Ministry. At least most countries will not extradite for the
breaking of that particular law. Your assistance in helping us to defeat Grindlewald will be taken into account as well. Ruby also told me that Queenie had put a love spell on
Jacob Sr. before visiting you in England that you removed. Is that true?" Tina asked while glaring at Newt.
"Yes, I gave him the means to obtain the money in order to open his bakery but I only did it because I felt bad about him having to be obliviated where he would forget about
our adventure and us. You do know how I feel about your law regarding muggles and wizards interacting with each other. Besides you were able to work on a muggle movie
set, even though it was technically against the law and Jacob Sr. had told stories about his time in the wizarding world to a writer who wrote stories based on those tales.
About the love spell on Jacob Sr. yes Queenie did put one on him, but I removed it shortly after I discovered it which the two of them had a fight over it but he went to Paris
with me to look for her. Anyway she had no right to read my mind."
Newt answered his girlfriend. Tina glared at him over his response.
"She can't help it, her legilimancy ability is amplified whenever she is upset. She has a lot to be upset about right now with having to leave the only home that she knows and
to live with someone that she just met, losing her father and she is about to lose her mother. That's not the point, the point is that you did break American wizarding law by
giving him the means to obtain the money to open up his bakery, since the signed affidavit proclaiming him to be a squib wasn't put on file until February, 1927 a full three
months after you provided him with the assistance. The only consequence of that action if MACUSA did decide to persecute you would be that you would never be able to
enter American soil until that law was repealed, which I do think would happen sometime but I don't know when. You do know the only reason that we were able to work on
that muggle movie is because the first author of the book that the movie was based on died under mysterious circumstances while on holiday in Rio de Janerio, and both the
book and the movie were about a witch marrying a no maj. Ironically your friend Jacob gave him the idea for the book. It was suspected that the second author was
threatened to change the ending in order to warn witches about the perils of marrying a no maj. We felt that the lives of the cast and crew of the movie were in danger since
the witch and no maj got their happy ending in the movie. James, the writer never even knew that the stories that Jacob had told him were true until maybe right before his
death. Saving a life is more important than following a law anyway, we did get a special exemption due to the subject matter of the movie and we felt that muggle lives were
threatened. Though you know that we had to follow strict rules about fraternizing with the no majs while on set. Besides that's not the point, the point is that you willingly
broke wizarding law in America by providing assistance to a no maj. After we found out that he was a squib than you could provide him with assistance since we can't prohibit
parents providing financial assistance to their children but not until then. I don't care what you think of the law and now in America there are no majs who are open to the
idea of marrying wizards without doing harm to them or exploiting their abilities."
"Did someone try to exploit Queenie when she was younger and you were scared that someone would exploit her abilities if they were discovered? Is that the real reason that
you were against Queenie seeing Jacob, not the law? Or was it that she would move abroad with Jacob and you would lose contact with her?" Newt asked Tina trying to
understand her way of thinking.
"After our parents died, we were put into an orphanage and of course since Queenie was still young there were couples interested in adopting her. Some of those couples
actually planned on using her mind reading ability in order to get rich. We were placed in a wizarding orphanage so there wasn't an opportunity for no maj's to look at us for
adoption. Since I was older and not very pretty no one wanted to adopt me or to bring me home with them. Also, I didn't have any special talents that could be used for profit
like Queenie did, not to mention the general belief that orphans were bad children and that was why they lost their parents. Since I was older when our parents died, I made
it my responsibility to take care of Queenie and to try to teach her to do the right thing, though I failed in that duty since she decided to follow Gindelwald and to do horrible
things." Tina answered him honestly.
"She didn't turn out all bad she did get a muggle family out of Poland and Germany during the war. She felt that Grindelwald would make it so that her and Jacob would live
together in America, without having to hide from the wizarding authorities." Newt tried to reassure her.
"She only got Jacob's and our extended families out and no others. If she had gotten other families out than that would be considered a good thing, though it was good for
our families. At her sentencing that was taken into consideration, she would have received life in prison if she had gotten more families out. There was plenty of room in the
truck that she had used to get them out and she only helped Jacob's and our families escape. I feel bad that she was misled by Grindelwald, but she should have known what
he was about, especially since she can read minds." Tina told Newt
"I think that she wanted to see what she wanted to, whether it was the truth or not. She wanted to be with Jacob and she didn't care who would help her to obtain her goal. I
think that if she would have been allowed to marry Jacob in the first place, we wouldn't be wondering what went wrong. I'm going to leave and let you spend some time with
your niece and nephew." Newt informed her.
"Don't you want to spend some time with Jacob's children? Since he was your friend, I would be certain that you would want to get to know his children." Tina asked.
"No, I don't want to spend anymore time with someone who thinks that I ruined her life." Newt told Tina.
"I'm sure that she doesn't mean that you ruined her life, she's tired and she's had a disappointing few weeks. She is spending the summer with me in my small apartment
and she is used to living in a castle." Tina reassured Newt.
"Well it's been nice to be able to meet Jacob, but I am still leaving to think about all of this. Jacob is fine, but having an almost grown woman who hates me staying with you
for the summer is too much to take." Newt told Tina before he walked out the door.
After he left Tina's flat, he really didn't feel like going home, so he went to the Leaky Cauldron instead where he found his brother nursing a pint. He went and joined him
since he looked miserable and the two of them could wallow in their misery. He went ahead and ordered food for the both of them as well as a pint for himself.
"What are you doing here, Newt? Don't you spend most of your evenings with Tina." His brother asked.
"I left since her niece, Ruby hates me and blames me for ruining her life and she told Tina some things that I didn't want her to know. She is a natural legilimens like her
mother, so she can find out your darkest secrets and use them against you. She really is a younger version of Queenie and she didn't get to meet her father until she was
older, so she was under Queenie's and Grindelwald's influence."
"Are you talking about Ruby Baker? I met her today at the Ministry to debrief her before letting her go home with Tina. She had the gall to tell me that it is okay for me to
date this woman at the Ministry that she thinks that I like since Leta has been gone for over seventeen years now. Mom would love that since she has been trying to set me
up with different women after the war now that she thinks that I have time to date. If I even think about another woman, I feel guilty about cheating on Leta even though she
has been dead for over seventeen years."
"I would feel the same way if Tina had died as well, though now she has her niece and nephew living with her. Her niece doesn't like me and blames me personally for the fact
that her mother is in prison in America awaiting execution and that she had to move from the castle that she was living in with her mother and into a small flat with her aunt
who she just met. To be honest with you, I don't know if I could stay with Tina since I would have to have some sort of relationship with her niece and raise her nephew who
could also be like his mother. I know their father was my best friend but having to live with a natural legilimens would be bad, at least with her niece being seventeen years of
age she wouldn't have to live with us for long or at well once we get married."
"I know how you feel, Newt I don't think that I could live with children who knew what I was thinking, though after Queenie joined Grindelwald Tina taught us occulmancy so
we could keep her reading our minds. You would have to use that skill all of the time to keep certain things a secret from them."
"lt would be tiring to have to use occulmancy all of the time, especially with Tina's niece and possible nephew. For some reason Queenie seemed to be attracted to my mind,
but she could have checked to see how I felt about her sister and to make sure that I wasn't leading Tina on when she thought that I was engaged to Leta. I don't know what
to think about Jacob Jr. since Jacob Sr. disappeared mysteriously from New York City in 1943 sometime after Tina and I worked on that muggle movie to protect the cast and
crew from any potential attacks from Grindelwald's followers. We didn't know what happened to him until we heard of his death. According to Tina she has documentation that
shows that he had married Queenie right after his disappearance but we don't know if he had married her willingly or not and Ruby isn't telling us but she may not know
anything since she was at Durmstrang at the time. We just found out about Ruby and I never knew that Queenie was pregnant when she joined Grindelwald, though I did
think it odd that she was pushing for Jacob Sr. to marry her just three months after meeting him."
"Do you still plan on going to America to be with Tina for her sister's execution?" Theseus asked.
"Yes, if she would have me now that she has Queenie's two children with her and one blames me for her mother's imprisonment and death sentence." Newt answered his
brother.
"Newt, you do realize that if you do travel to America you won't be able to bring your traveling menagerie with you. Ruby may let out all of your animals free in New York in
order to get back at you and I don't know if MACUSA would let you off easily if that happened again. Don't you remember what happened in 1926 when you accidentally let
your animals loose in that city?"
"I do and that is how I met Tina plus we almost got killed at MACUSA for letting out those animals since they were blamed for the attacks on muggles in New York City and
not an obscurius."
"I don't know what they would do if your animals were let loose in New York now, especially now that you're famous and should know better. I don't know if they would blame
Ruby or not since she could play the innocent just like her mother." Theseus told his brother.
Newt looked downtrodden at the news that he wouldn't be allowed to bring any of his animals with him to New York if he went there in order to be with Tina for her own
sister's execution. He knew that it was for their own good since Tina's vindictive niece may let them out on purpose in order to hurt him. His assistant could take care of them
while he was gone but he would miss them. He knew that he wanted to be there for Tina during her time of grieving and if he had to leave his animals behind in order to do it
than he would. He only hoped that she would appreciate what he was doing for her.
