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- The flashback showing Leta causing another Hogwarts student's mouth to disappear. McGonagall finds the girl and undoes the spell, but when she starts talking and complaining, McGonagall takes away her mouth again.
- In this movie we meet a baby Niffler! It ends up opening a wine bottle sideways, and propels itself across the room with the popped cork. Newt can only have a look of subdued horror at the screaming creature, riding the flying cork, all while the scene is in Bullet Time. When it suddenly disappears, cue Newt attempting to find it, with him muttering, "Oh, Merlin...".
- Dumbledore chooses to meet Newt on the rooftop of St. Paul's Cathedral... for the view. Add "likes a view" to his list of things he likes. Ten-pin bowling, chamber music, sherbet lemons and a nice view.
- How British is Dumbledore? He suggests that, if everything goes really bad, Newt should go to a safe house in Paris. For a cup of tea, which is the quintessential British thing to do when stuff goes wrong. We keep a stiff upper lip and drink tea.
- At the end of the film, he later offers Newt that cup of tea... again.
- When Newt casts the counterspell on Jacob for Queenie's love enchantment, the man understandably has trouble balancing his frustration with Queenie, his confusion as to what's going on, and his happiness at seeing Newt again.Jacob: It's very nice to see you...Where the hell am I right now?Newt: Uh, London.Jacob: Damn it! I always wanted to come here! QUEENIE!
- Newt asks Jacob what he should say to Tina when he sees her for the first time in about a year. His go-to compliment is to compare her eyes to a salamander's, which Jacob tells him to absolutely not do.
- Later on, he comes close to making the same comparison again, directly to Tina, and stops himself, saying he's not "supposed" to make the comparison. He makes it anyway, in an indirect fashion, leading to a different sort of crowning moment.
- Newt uses the Confundus charm on a guard, leading to the man appearing as though he's drunk.
- The Zouwu appears before Newt. How does Newt calm down the beast? By pulling out a cat toy. The moment the Zouwu sees the toy, it’s immediately entranced by it like a cat and goes diving for it when Newt drops the toy into his suitcase, which closes itself shut.
- Tina using magic to tie Theseus to a chair, realizing that he is Newt's brother. When this happens, Newt happily states that what she did is now the best moment of his life.
- Newt being adorkable as always. Before trying to infiltrate the French ministry using polyjuice potion, he tells Tina that his brother likes to hug people in an almost disgusted voice. Cut to inside, where Theseus competently greets several ministry members. Another cut reveals that this is the real Theseus Scamander, while Newt is awkwardly rushing across the floors with his disguise failing. He ultimately gets into the archives by nonetheless claiming that he is Theseus and that Tina is Leta Lestrange.
- What makes it funnier is that the lady behind the desk does not seem to be buying any of that shit, but pretends to do so anyway.
- Jacob meets Nicholas Flamel, and because Flamel is deathly pale and very old, he thinks he's a ghost. Flamel just says that he's an alchemist...and, thus, is immortal. Jacob is rather freaked out but still trying to be polite...and this doesn't help matters when he accidentally breaks one of Flamel's fingers simply by shaking his hand.Jacob: You don't look a day over 375.
- Nicholas Flamel running in slow motion to the magic book.
- The last thing Grindelwald says before escaping the rally and leaving a gigantic Protego Diabolica fire behind? "I hate Paris."
- At the end of the film when Newt gives the Blood Pact vial that the Niffler stole from Grindelwald to Dumbledore he is invited in for tea. Newt says that the Niffler will have some milk and advises Dumbledore to hide the teaspoons.
- As long as the Niffler doesn't go into Dumbledore's office; Dumbledore has an enormous collection of silver things... which is exactly what the Niffler adores.
- Or the kitchens.
- As long as the Niffler doesn't go into Dumbledore's office; Dumbledore has an enormous collection of silver things... which is exactly what the Niffler adores.
- Ezra Miller has revealed that they misheard David Yates telling them the big twist, and thought Credence was being revealed to be Aberforth. This sent them into a tailspin of trying to figure out how it could make sense, until finally they went to J.K. Rowling herself who set them straight.
- Newt being totally Oblivious to Love, even misunderstanding when he's told to take his shirt off. Made extra funny because of Deliberate Values Dissonance. Back in the 1920's it was very unusual for men to go topless in public, even at the beach and especially if there were women around. By the standards of the time, Bunty is being extremely forward in coming onto Newt and he's still oblivious.
- At this time, it would also have been extremely familiar and forward to use first names with anyone outside of one's immediate family. Newt and Bunty would have properly addressed one another as "Mr. Scamander" and "Miss (whatever her surname is)." Bunty and Newt are already well outside of the norm in a relationship between coworkers, and Newt seems just as oblivious to that as well.
- When Queenie has been lured into Grindelwald's Paris headquarters, and in a very tense moment draws her wand on Grindelwald himself, the obnoxious enchanted teapot that has been persistently offering her tea just merrily floats away, realizing that she's definitely not going to take any tea now.
- Jacob, describing his experience with a No-Maj fortune teller, telling him his future:Jacob: She missed out on quite a bit, actually.
- Grindelwald vapes WWII.
