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best teacher we’ve got.
    DUMBLEDORE
    (quiet)
    Thanks, McClaggan.
    TRAVERS
    Get out!
    M C GONAGALL
    Come, McClaggan.
    The door closes.
    TRAVERS
    Newt Scamander is in Paris.
    DUMBLEDORE
    Really?
    TRAVERS
    Cut the pretense. I know he’s there on your orders.
    DUMBLEDORE
    If you’d ever had the pleasure to teach him, you’d know Newt is not a great follower of orders.
    TRAVERS tosses a small book to DUMBLEDORE, who catches it in one hand.
    TRAVERS
    (indicating the book)
    You’ve read
The Predictions of Tycho Dodonus
?
    DUMBLEDORE
    Many years ago.
    TRAVERS
    (reads)
    “A son cruelly banished
    Despair of the daughter
    Return—”
    DUMBLEDORE
    Yes, I know it.
    TRAVERS
    There’s a rumor this prediction refers to the Obscurial. They say that Grindelwald wants—
    DUMBLEDORE
    —a highborn henchman. I’ve heard the rumor.
    TRAVERS
    And yet Scamander appears wherever the Obscurial goes, to protect him. Meanwhile you have built up quite a little network of international contacts—
    DUMBLEDORE
    (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
    Will you fight him?
    DUMBLEDORE
    (pained)
    I can’t.
    TRAVERS
    Then you have chosen your side.
    He flicks his wand once more. Thick metal cuffs—Admonitors—appear on DUMBLEDORE’S wrists.
    TRAVERS
    From now on, I shall know every spell you cast. I’m doubling the watch on you, and you will no longer teach Defense Against the Dark Arts.
    (to THESEUS)
    Where’s Leta? We need to go to Paris!
    He storms out. The AURORS follow. THESEUS is last to the door.
    DUMBLEDORE
    (quietly)
    Theseus.
    THESEUS looks back.
    DUMBLEDORE
    Theseus, if Grindelwald calls a rally, don’t try and break it up. Don’t let Travers send you in there. If you ever trusted me—
    TRAVERS (O.S.)
    THESEUS!
    THESEUS leaves.

    SCENE 65
    INT. DESERTED HOGWARTS CORRIDOR—DAY
    The late afternoon sun falls through the windows as LETA walks along a corridor populated only with memories. She stops beside an open door.
    The Great Hall is lit with floating candles.

    SCENE 66
    INT. EMPTY HOGWARTS CLASSROOM—DAY
    LETA walks slowly into the classroom, then turns to look back into the corridor and—
    DISSOLVE TO:

    SCENE 67
    INT. EMPTY HOGWARTS CLASSROOM—SEVENTEEN YEARS PREVIOUSLY—MORNING
    13-YEAR-OLD LETA stands hiding inside the empty classroom while students in cloaks trundle by, pushing trunks and carrying owls. It is the last day of the winter term and
nearly everyone is going home.
    ANGLE ON TWO 13-YEAR-OLD GRYFFINDOR GIRLS pushing trunks.
    GRYFFINDOR GIRL 1
    You know she stays here every vacation. Her family don’t actually want her home.
    GRYFFINDOR GIRL 2
    I don’t blame them, she’s so annoying. Even the name Lestrange makes me feel sick—
    LETA flings herself into their path, pointing her wand.
    13-YEAR-OLD LETA
    Oscausi!
    GRYFFINDOR GIRL 2’S mouth is sealed shut as though she never had one. Triumphant, LETA flees the scene, pushing past shocked