Hey guys so iv'e finally got a new chapter out for you, not gonna lie this was one of the harder chapters to write mainly because of the scene that we are reacting, most of you should know what scene it is, I've been building up to it over the last few chapters. But anyway i don't won FB all rights go to j.k rowling
SCENE 91
INT. LESTRANGE MAUSOLEUM—NIGHT
An ancient tomb containing many sarcophagi is dominated by the grand marble tomb of LETA'S father.
ABERNATHY and MACDUFF enter carrying the bag retrieved from the French
Ministry and remove the elaborate box, which they plant in the mausoleum to be
found.
Glares were pointed at the screen, at the two traitor's.
SCENE 92
EXT. PÈRE LACHAISE CEMETERY—SHORTLY AFTERWARD—
NIGHT
JACOB is panting as he runs through the dark, deserted cemetery, looking for
the tomb he saw in the orb. A faint light in the distance shows him the Lestrange
mausoleum.
"Why do I feel like something's gonna go wrong for those two." Someone asked to no one in particular.
Queenie and Jacob sat close to each other grasping each others hands, this whole movie had been one big nightmare.
Knowing that this could of been their future was nearly unthinkable.
What worried Jacob the most was the knot in his stomach, a knot that hasn't vanished since that start of the movie, something was gonna happen, he didn't know what but his gut told him something else was gonna happen.
SCENE 93
EXT. LESTRANGE MAUSOLEUM—A MINUTE LATER—NIGHT
JACOB reaches the tomb. A stone raven on the lintel.
JACOB
(whispers)
Queenie?
No answer. He enters.
SCENE 94
INT. LESTRANGE MAUSOLEUM—NIGHT
ANGLE ON JACOB entering a small space full of shadows and sarcophagi. A
single lamp.
JACOB
Queenie, honey?
MALE WIZARD
Don't. Don't move.
A movement behind him. He whirls around. A silhouetted figure lunges at him.
Queenie grips Jacobs hand tightly, praying to Merlin, Morgana or any other the higher beings to keep her Jacob safe.
Newt also looked to his friend in worry and slight guilt, he was the one who brought Jacob along, he was the one who let Jacob go out on his own, what ever happened to Jacob ,it was partly his fault.
SCENE 95
INT. MINISTÈRE DES AFFAIRES MAGIQUES, RECORDS ROOM
ATRIUM—NIGHT
NEWT and TINA turn a corner into a beautiful atrium area in front of towering
Art Nouveau doors carved to resemble trees. A very old woman behind a desk
bars the way: MELUSINE.
MELUSINE
Puis-je vous aider?
NEWT
Er—yes, this is Leta Lestrange. And—I'm her—
TINA
Fiancé.
There were a few winces.
People remembering that Tina still thought that newt and Leta were engaged.
Tens looked to newt
"I'm sorry I didn't allow you to explain earlier."
Newt sent Tina is usual smile.
"I should of wrote to you about that article, to tell you it was false."
In a bold move on newts part, he grabbed Tina's hand and pressed a kiss on the back of her hand.
Tina felt her cheeks redden, butterflies in her stomach.
She hasn't felt like this since she had been a school girl and the boy she had a crush on her asked to accompany her to one of the local wizarding villages near ilvermorny.
An increased awkwardness between them as MELUSINE lifts an ancient book
onto the desk and opens it.
CLOSE ON MELUSINE'S WIZENED FINGER as it runs down a list of
surnames beginning with L.
MELUSINE
(pointing them on)
Allez-y.
TINA
(whispering)
Merci.
NEWT
(sotto voce, behind TINA)
Thank you.
NEWT grabs TINA'S hand and pulls her toward the doors into the records room.
MELUSINE eyes them suspiciously.
"She's on to you, maybe you shouldn't of grabbed the hand of another woman that wasn't your "fiancé"."
Newt gave modesty a sheepish look.
NEWT
Tina, about that fiancée business—
"Tell her newt."
TINA
(brittle)
Sorry, yeah. I should have congratulated you—
Many were wincing at the time of Tina's voice, this wasn't gong well at all.
The doors to the records office open. They enter briskly.
SCENE 96
INT. MINISTÈRE DES AFFAIRES MAGIQUES, RECORDS ROOM—
NIGHT
The doors close behind them, plunging them into darkness.
NEWT
No, that's—
TINA
Lumos.
An extraordinary acre of shelves stretches away from them, all carved to look
like trees, so that they seem to be on the edge of the forest. Pickett pokes his head
out of NEWT'S pocket and squeals in excitement.
TINA
Lestrange.
Nothing happens.
TINA sets off, NEWT right behind her. They weave in and out of the carved
shelves bearing rolls of parchment, the occasional prophecy, other mysterious
trunks and boxes.
NEWT
Tina—about Leta—
TINA
Yes, I've just said, I am happy for you—
NEWT
Yeah, well, don't.
Theseus Turns to newt.
"Could of worded that better."
The younger of the two rolls his eyes but silently agrees with him, talking with other human beings had never been a strong suit of newt's who would much rather spend his time with creatures opposed to his fellow human species.
She stops. Looks at him. What?
NEWT
Please don't be happy.
(in trouble)
Uh, no, no. I'm sorry. I don't . . . Uh, obviously, I—Obviously I
want you to be. And I hear that you are now.
Winces
Uh, which is
wonderful. Sorry—
(a gesture of hopelessness)
What I'm trying to say is, I want you to be happy,
More winces
but don't be happy that I'm happy, because I'm not.
(off her confusion)
Happy.
Now everyone has is in discomfort at newts babble.
(off her continued confusion)
Or engaged.
TINA
What?
NEWT
It was a mistake in a stupid magazine. My brother's marrying Leta,
June the sixth. I'm supposed to be best man. Which is sort of mildly hilarious.
Theseus turns to face newt with a jokingly hurt face.
"Now why is that hilarious."
TINA
Does he think you're here to win her back?
(beat)
Are you here to win her back?
"No he's here to telly oh he loves you." Jacob shouts at the screen and in turn gets a few laughs.
NEWT
No! I'm here to—
A beat. He stares at her.
NEWT
—you know, your eyes really are—
TINA
Are what?
NEWT
I'm not supposed to say.
Pickett is climbing out of NEWT'S pocket onto the nearest shelf. NEWT doesn't
notice.
Exasperated eyes turn accusingly to newt.
"Newt What have we told you about losing your creatures."
A beat. In a rush:
TINA
Newt, I read your book, and did you—?
NEWT
I still have a picture of you—wait, did you read—?
NEWT pulls the picture of her from his breast pocket and unfolds it. She is
inordinately touched. He looks from the picture to TINA.
NEWT
I got this—I mean, it's just a picture of you from the paper, but it's
interesting because your eyes in newsprint . . . See, in reality they
have this effect in them, Tina . . . It's like fire in water, in dark water.
I've only ever seen that—
(struggling)
I've only ever seen that in—
TINA
(whispers)
Salamanders?
"Awwwww" many of the women swoon at the screen.
Men just siting there looking at their significant other or who there seated with.
A loud bang as the doors to the records room fly open. They jump apart.
Somebody has entered the room. They draw back among the shelves.
TINA
Come.
ANGLE ON LETA in the doorway.
Oh no many think.
There gonna be discovered.
She walks inside, desperate. This is her last chance to hide evidence about
Corvus's death. The doors close behind her. She raises her wand.
Many look to Leta, what is she doing here.
Leta looks down in hopeless, it's to late the box has already been found.
LETA
Lestrange.
The shelves begin to move.
ANGLE ON MELUSINE, watching through the records room doors.
ANGLE ON NEWT AND TINA.
The giant trees are shifting all around them. They are almost crushed as the
Lestrange "tree" flies toward them. They hop onto a shelf.
ANGLE ON LETA.
The towering stack stops, swaying, in front of her. She stares. An empty shelf
confronts her. A mark in the dust where a box sat, a slip of parchment in its
place.
She picks up the slip and reads it aloud.
LETA
"Records moved to Lestrange family tomb at Père Lachaise."
She spots Pickett hiding among the deed boxes on the shelf.
Many hold there breath waiting for the moment when she eats them out.
LETA
Circumrota.
The record tower turns, revealing NEWT and TINA clinging to the shelves.
People hold there breath.
LETA
Hello, Newt.
NEWT
Hello, Leta.
TINA
(awkwardly, but kindly)
Hi.
Sighs of relief are let out, she's not gonna tell.
At that moment, MELUSINE enters the records room surrounded by growling
Matagots.
Oh no
NEWT
Oh no.
LETA
(scared)
What kind of cats are those?
"Matagots" newt breaths
"But don't worry they won't attack unless provoked."
NEWT
These aren't cats, they're Matagots. They're spirit familiars. They
guard the Ministry—but they won't hurt you unless you—
Panicking, LETA fires a spell at one of the cats.
"Unless you do that"
LETA
Stupefy!
Her spell not only fails, it causes the Matagots to multiply and become even
more aggressive.
Many watch in fascination how will they escape this.
NEWT
UNLESS YOU ATTACK THEM!
As each batch of Matagots is hit, they multiply and mutate. The situation has
become dangerous.
LETA
Oops.
NEWT
Leta!
LETA climbs over the balustrade to join NEWT and TINA on the shelf stack.
LETA
Reverte!
The towering stack flies backward as the Matagots pounce in a terrifying ebony
surge of teeth and claws.
The other "trees" of the records room forest spin and move as NEWT, TINA, and
LETA run through the room chased by the attacking Matagots.
But just as the Matagots seemingly lose the trail, all of the records room towers
retract into the floor, leaving the room empty. The Matagots prowl toward where
their prey must surely be standing, only to find—
NEWT'S case.
ANGLE ON THE CASE from above.
A beat.
An explosion as the Zouwu bursts out of the case, NEWT clinging to its back.
Roaring, it rears, slashing at the rising tide of Matagots, its mane flashing.
"Well that's one way to do it, I suppose."
NEWT
Accio!
NEWT'S case flies into his hand.
For a few seconds the Zouwu and NEWT vanish under the seething mass of cats.
They fight them off, the Zouwu's immense power unmatched, red tail swishing.
NEWT points his wand at the ceiling.
NEWT
Ascendio!
The towers rise once again from the floor, lifting NEWT and the Zouwu high up
into the air. Still fighting off the Matagots as the stacks tip and fall beneath the
sheer weight, the Zouwu clambers across to the balcony.
SCENE 97
INT. MINISTÈRE DES AFFAIRES MAGIQUES, MAIN LEVEL—A
MINUTE LATER—NIGHT
The Matagots give chase as the Zouwu gallops out of the room, leaving injured
and thwarted Matagots in its wake. The Zouwu carves a path of destruction
through the Ministry. It takes one last leap over the typing pool . . .
. . . and its immense magical power propels it up and out through the glass roof.
SCENE 98
EXT. PÈRE LACHAISE CEMETERY—NIGHT
NEWT and the Zouwu land in the cemetery. With one gigantic leap, the Zouwu
has taken them to freedom.
The few Matagots that have followed them growl and then shrink. Reduced to the
size of domestic cats in the Muggle environment, they "meow" pitifully.
"Aww"
Or
Laughs
Could be heard through the room.
NEWT opens his case as the Zouwu nudges him with affection.
NEWT
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay, wait. Hold it there, please. Come on. All
right, okay, wait. Okay.
LETA and TINA climb out of the case to observe NEWT coaxing the Zouwu.
TINA shakes the cat bird toy she has retrieved from the case. The Zouwu's eyes
light up.
Unnoticed by NEWT and TINA, LETA runs away into the darkness.
SCENE 99
INT. LESTRANGE MAUSOLEUM—A MINUTE LATER—NIGHT
LETA enters the ornate space lined with sleeping statues of dead Lestranges.
JACOB stands backed against the wall next to NAGINI in snake form, who is
repeatedly lashing out at KAMA, who is trying to get a clean shot at
CREDENCE.
KAMA
(to NAGINI)
Move back! Move! Out of the way! If I
must kill you as well as Corvus, I shall!
"He's not Corvus." Leta day defectively.
This is it, she just knows
Her deepest shame is bout to be unraveled to everyone here, some of Yh ones people who will use this against her or forever look down on her.
No doubt someone here, especially one of the ministry workers will let it slip to the papers.
LETA raises her wand at KAMA, who swings round to see her, wand pointed at
him—a standoff.
LETA
Stop!
She walks forward, stricken but determined, at last, to do the right thing. KAMA is mesmerized. She is his mother reborn. He moves toward LETA, studies her face in the darkness, transfixed and moved by the sight of her.
LETA
Yusuf?
KAMA
Is that really you? My little sister . . . ?
NEWT and TINA enter and exchange looks—another piece of the puzzle.
CREDENCE
(to LETA)
So he's your brother? Who am I?
LETA
I don't know.
He pushes past LETA and faces KAMA, unprotected.
CREDENCE
I'm tired of living with no name and no history. Just tell me my
story—then you can end it.
"No."
Nagini Held onto credence as if her life depended on it.
The Weasley also had a grip on here want ready to defend there foster son from anyone who would wish him harm.
KAMA
Your story is our story . . .
(gesturing to LETA)
Our story.
LETA
No, Yusuf—
KAMA
(determined)
My father was Mustafa Kama, a pureblood of Sénégalese descent
and most accomplished.
SCENE 100
EXT. PARK—1896—DAY
We see a beautiful woman, LAURENA, dressed in an exquisite gown, walking
through a park with her husband, MUSTAFA—clearly in love. A YOUNG
YUSUF by their side.
KAMA (V.O.)
My mother, Laurena, was equally high-bred—a noted beauty. They
were deeply in love. They knew a man of great influence, from a
famous French pureblood family. He desired her.
Watching from a distance, an intense wizard, CORVUS LESTRANGE SR.,
studies her beauty.
SCENE 101
INT. KAMA MANSION—1896—NIGHT
LAURENA'S gown changes to a nightdress. She is walking slowly downstairs, a
supernatural wind blowing.
KAMA (V.O.)
Lestrange used the Imperius Curse to seduce and abduct her . . .
There were many gasps.
Wondering how anyone could get away with using one of the unforgivables.
But then many pureblood family's with the right influence and money can weasel there way out of consequence's
The twelve-year-old KAMA runs after his mother, tugs at her hand, and tries to
pull her back upstairs. She throws him off. The front door flies open.
LESTRANGE SR. stands at the foot of the garden path. LAURENA walks toward
him. KAMA chases after her. LESTRANGE SR. points his wand at KAMA and
sends him sprawling.
LAURENA lies on the bed as IRMA carries a newborn swaddled in a blanket to
LESTRANGE SR.
Many hearts went out to the father and son who lost there mother and wife equally.
SCENE 102
INT. LESTRANGE MAUSOLEUM—NIGHT
KAMA
. . . that was the last time I ever saw her. She died, giving birth to a
little girl.
(to LETA)
You.
Tears start in LETA'S eyes, reliving the guilt she holds.
Theseus Grabbed her hand offering her silent support.
KAMA
The news of her death drove my father insane. With his dying
breath, my father charged me to seek revenge.
(determined)
Kill the person Lestrange loves best in the world . . . I thought at
first it would be easy . . . he had only one close relative . . . you. But
—
LETA
Say it . . .
Many hearts sank, understanding what was gonna he said next.
KAMA
. . . he never loved you.
Leta brushed away tears.
Yes,
She knew her father never loved her, she knew he never even held her as a baby, passed her off to someone else to care for, even when she was a young girl, he made it clear he didn't want anything to do with her. In her childhood she could maybe count on one hand how many conversation's she had with him that lasted longer than 3 minutes, and it got worse once she went to Hogwarts, Christmas's were spent with a nanny or house elf for Company where as her father would be of on some retreat along with his new wife, and summer breaks were pretty much the same, after she left Hogwarts her father cut of all contact with her completely even insisting she move out.
SCENE 103
INT. LESTRANGE MANOR, BEDROOM—1901—DAY
We reenter the story to find LESTRANGE SR. with a new, blond wife.
KAMA (V.O.)
He remarried not three months after her death. He loved her no
more than he had loved you . . . But then . . .
IRMA takes the BABY BOY who has just been born, and passes him to
LESTRANGE SR., who is delighted.
KAMA (V.O.)
. . . his son, Corvus, was born at last. And that man who had never
known love was filled with it . . .
Parent looked in his shock, how a man who had such love for his son could have none for his daughter.
SCENE 104
INT. LESTRANGE MAUSOLEUM—NIGHT
CREDENCE looks on, rapt—is this who he is? He's hungry to know more.
KAMA
All he cared about was little Corvus.
A beat.
CREDENCE
So. . . this is the truth? I am Corvus Lestrange?
There was a murder of agreement round the room.
Credence had to be Corvus lestrange.
KAMA
Yes.
LETA
No.
People looked to Leta.
This clearly was her brother, even the nanny had confirmed it.
Why wouldn't he be Corvus.
Credence looked to his half sister? But she wasn't looking at him at all.
She wasn't looking at anyone, much preferring to stare at the ground, wish more than anything her pleas would be heard and the ground would open up and swallow her.
CREDENCE stares from one to the other.
KAMA turns and looks at LETA. Her eyes are unfocused. These memories have
haunted her nightmares for years.
KAMA
(to LETA)
Realizing that Mustafa Kama's son had sworn revenge, your father
sought to hide you where I couldn't find you. So he confided you to
his servant, who boarded a ship for America.
LETA
He did send Corvus to America, but—
KAMA
His servant, Irma Dugard, was a half-elf. Her magic was weak and
therefore left no trace I could follow. I had only just discovered how
you had escaped when I received news I never expected . . . The
ship had gone down at sea . . . But you survived, didn't you?
Eyes were glued to the screen, none noticed Leta desperately trying to wipe her eyes.
(to CREDENCE)
Somehow, someone had pulled you from the water!
"A son cruelly banished
Despair of the daughter
Return, great avenger
With wings from the water."
There—
(points at LETA)
—stands the despairing daughter. You are the winged raven returned
from the sea, but I—I am the avenger of my family's ruin.
KAMA raises his wand.
KAMA
I pity you, Corvus, but you must die.
LETA
Corvus Lestrange is already dead. I killed him.
Silence is heard through the room.
No one says a word.
All wondering if they had heard that correctly.
All in shock.
One by one, eyes turned to Leta who by now has given up trying to compose herself, instead letting them tear fall freely down her face.
Leta closed her eyes shut, hoping to block out the stairs, praying to wake up from this nightmare.
LETA raises her wand.
LETA
Accio!
A heavy box, hidden in the corner of the mausoleum, comes crashing to her
through the dust. A series of clicks as cogs whirr . . . Puzzle-like, it falls apart.
LETA
My father owned a very strange family tree. It only recorded the
men . . .
We glimpse a tree with an orchid-like flower twisting around it.
LETA
. . . the women in my family were recorded as flowers. Beautiful.
Separate.
SCENE 105
INT. LESTRANGE MANOR, NURSERY—1901—NIGHT
IRMA lifts a baby from a crib and departs, watched by a desolate LESTRANGE
SR.
LETA (V.O.)
My father sent me to America, along with Corvus.
SCENE 106
INT. SHIP'S CABIN—1901—NIGHT
IRMA is asleep, CHILD LETA awake on a lower bunk, and BABY CORVUS
screaming in his crib.
LETA (V.O.)
Irma was to pose as a grandmother with two grandchildren . . .
The lights suddenly flicker on and off—CHILD LETA hasn't moved, she is still
looking at the screaming BABY CORVUS.
LETA (V.O.)
Corvus never stopped crying.
In the background there is a commotion as figures run along the corridor outside
the door. As CHILD LETA approaches BABY CORVUS, who continues to cry,
IRMA wakes. She goes to investigate the fuss and noise in the corridor.
LETA (V.O.)
I never wanted to hurt him.
CHILD LETA is transfixed by the baby.
LETA (V.O.)
I only wanted to be free of him. Just for a moment . . .
SCENE 107
INT. SHIP'S CORRIDOR—1901—NIGHT
The door of the opposite cabin is ajar. BABY CREDENCE is inside, fast asleep.
CHILD LETA slips inside. She swaps the babies.
LETA (V.O.)
Just a single moment.
SCENE 108
INT. SHIP'S CABIN—1901—NIGHT
CHILD LETA enters with BABY CREDENCE.
IRMA
Give him to me!
The ship lurches again. IRMA snatches BABY CREDENCE, not noticing the
switch amid the confusion. The cabin door bangs open to reveal a dark-haired
young woman wearing a nightdress and life jacket.
CREDENCE'S AUNT
Irma? They want us to put on life jackets!
She slips and slides into her own cabin and picks up BABY CORVUS, also not
realizing the babies have been switched.
SCENE 109
EXT. LIFEBOAT—1901—NIGHT
CHILD LETA, IRMA, and BABY CREDENCE are in one boat, CREDENCE'S
AUNT and BABY CORVUS in another.
A huge wave is approaching. CHILD LETA watches as the lifeboat bearing
CREDENCE'S AUNT and BABY CORVUS is overturned.
CLOSE ON THE SURFACE OF THE WATER. A few survivors reappear,
including CREDENCE'S AUNT, but not BABY CORVUS . . . CREDENCE'S
AUNT pulls off her life jacket so she can dive too . . .
She does not reemerge. We close in through the surface of the water, past the
drowning woman, and see the dark shape of a drowning baby trailing bubbles of
magical light as he sinks . . . and his figure becomes . . .
SCENE 110
INT. LESTRANGE MAUSOLEUM—NIGHT
. . . the drowning baby falling through sea-green light, hanging in the air in the
mausoleum. LETA has conjured it. It has haunted her all her life and now she
shows it to them.
The orchid representing LETA on the Lestrange family tree twists around the
branch labeled CORVUS LESTRANGE until the leaves wither and die.
No one has words.
What could possibly be said.
Slowly accusing eyes turn to the distraught woman.
Theseus coming out of his shock, is quick to glares at the accusers, Dari them to try anything he's soon joined by newt, Tina, Jacob and Queenie who were all ready to defend the woman.
NEWT
You didn't mean to do it, Leta. So it wasn't your fault.
LETA
Oh, Newt. You never met a monster you couldn't love.
Theseus turned to Leta,
Grabbed her by the shoulders, looked straight into her tear filled eyes.
"You are not a monster, your the woman I love, the woman I want to spend the rest of my life with, the woman I would die for, don't ever think your any less."
A long look between them, a look full of memories.
TINA
Leta, do you know who Credence really is? Did you know, when you swapped them?
LETA
No.
CREDENCE reacts.
Credence let out a sigh "finally" he thought, he would finally know his past, and now he was back to square one.
He looked at the woman who essentially saved his life when he was a baby, Standing up he walked cautiously over to the woman, who was surrounded by her loved one, all whom gave him weary looks.
Kneeling down he went and hugged Leta.
He put all his feelings into the hug, all his gratitude.
"Thank you, you saved me that day, of it wasn't for you I would be dead, I don't think your a monster."
The two knelt embracing each other.
For the forts time I'm along time Leta let out a small smile.
AN: i hope you enjoyed it, i really hope i got leta's character right, considering this is one of her most iconic scenes and the one i really believe leta's character really makes an impact on the film.