Fantastic Beasts: Fate of the Magic

Chapter 8 A plan is made for planning's sake

Author's note: fuck you

Newt and Jacob enter into the empty Hog's head. It is late at night, and it's a bit nippy. 

Jacob shivers, "Gee, I sure do miss New York!"

Dumbledore gets up from his seat and shakes Newts and Jacob's hands. "So glad you could make it! Please come in! Thesus should arriving any minute, and we've got dinner on the table!"

Jacob wiggles his hands like a cartoon character. "Ooooooh, don't mind it I do!" Newt turns to Dumbledore "how is Creedence?"

Dumbledore sucks his air through his teeth. "No well, I'm afraid. But... there is good news. He and Nagini are going to have a child!" 

Jacob splutters, his face already full of some substance that sure as hell doesn't look like food.

Newt smiles. "Well, funny story......."

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Jacob was doing what he did best- making pastries. "When my Queenie is pregnant," He says to Nagini, "She always craves my baking! Ho ho ho! So you turn into a snake, huh? That's pretty zany!"

Meanwhile, THesus, Newt, and Dumbledore were talking seriously after dinner.

"If the smugglers know where the Quetzalborous is, we need to find it before Grindlewald does. We know that the Quetzalboruous is in South America, but that's not much to go on." Dumbledore exlapins.

"So they're aren't Grindlewald?" Thesus asks. "No, they're something....else." Dumbledore responds responds.

Newt frowns, "Buth ow are we going to find out what they know! We can't just walk into their compound, and even if we did, how would we know where to find them?"

Dumbledore taps his fingers together. "We just need to give them something that they wnat....I wonder....."

He turns to Nagini, who was unhinging her jaw swallowing Jacob's pastries whole. "Nagini, could you please come here a moment..."

She sawllows, and approacheds.

"Nagini, you have been listening?" 

Naginin nods. "I think I know what you're going to ask me to do...and if it helps..."

Dumbledore looks intently at her. "You'd be willing?" He prompts.

She nodes and turns to the others. "Maledicuts have another power. If their blood is drunk, than any non-Maledictus would take on a beast form for 49 hours. It's very rarely done." 

"I think..." She says, turning uncertainly at Dumbledore, "Your plan is to transform someone here in an animal, and to sell them to the smugglers. Then, that person, transformed, gathers all the information they can about where the Quetzalborous is located... Is that right?" 

Dumbledore looks impressed. "Of course my niece-in-law is so smart! Got it in one."

Thesus had immediate objections. "What the fuck are you saying? What the hell is going on?" 

Dumbledore shook his head. "If Grindlewald gets ahold of the Quetzalborous, then he'll give all the magic to himself! We can't afford to let that happen. Yes, it's dangerous....but..."

Newt nodded. "It needs to be done... And.... and I will do it. For the fate of the magic."