Page 108 - [2]Fantastic Beasts - The Crimes of Grindelwald - the Original Screenplay

(quiet, steely)

However long you keep me and my friends under surveillance,
you’re not going to discover plots against you, Travers, because we
want the same thing: the defeat of Grindelwald. But I warn you,
your policies of suppression and violence are pushing supporters
into his arms— TRAVERS
I’m not interested in your warnings!
(controlling himself)
Now, it pains me to say it, because—well, I don’t like you.

TRAVERS and DUMBLEDORE both chuckle.

TRAVERS
But . . . you are the only wizard who is his equal. I need you to fight
him.

A pause. The AURORS watch.

DUMBLEDORE
I cannot.

TRAVERS
Because of this?

He casts a spell to show moving pictures of TEENAGE DUMBLEDORE and

TEENAGE GRINDELWALD. The AURORS are shocked.

The TEENAGE DUMBLEDORE and TEENAGE GRINDELWALD stare intently

into each other’s eyes.

TRAVERS
You and Grindelwald were as close as brothers.

DUMBLEDORE
We were closer than brothers.

DUMBLEDORE is looking at the pictures. These memories are agony. He is full
of remorse but, almost worse: nostalgia for the only time in his life he felt fully
understood.

TRAVERS