Page 112 - [2]Fantastic Beasts - The Crimes of Grindelwald - the Original Screenplay

13-YEAR-OLD NEWT is already in occupation of the cupboard. He has hidden

a couple of tanks here, one containing tadpoles, another Streelers. A lined
cardboard box serves as a nest for the raven chick he is cradling in his hand. It
wears a splint on its broken leg. NEWT and LETA stare at each other.
13-YEAR-OLD LETA

Scamander . . . why aren’t you packing?
13-YEAR-OLD NEWT

I’m not going home.
13-YEAR-OLD LETA

Why not?
13-YEAR-OLD NEWT

(of the raven)
He needs me. It was hurt.

LETA takes in the tanks, then the ugly little bird, to which NEWT now feeds an
earthworm.
13-YEAR-OLD LETA

What is that?
13-YEAR-OLD NEWT

A raven chick.

She is mildly intrigued now.
13-YEAR-OLD LETA

The raven’s my family’s emblem.

She watches him stroking the bird’s head. As he places the chick gently in her
hands, she seems to see him plainly for the first time.

DISSOLVE TO:

SCENE 69
INT. DEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS CLASS—FOURTEEN