"I'm not one of your creatures, Newt!" Tina shouted, stunning the man into silence.
"Well, if you were," he said, quickly recovering, "You would be far better behaved."
"Too bad for you then, because I am human," she took a step closer to him, gesturing to herself to emphasise this, "And just because no humans like you doesn't mean you can go out galavanting the globe after some dying out creature that nobody cares about!"
The slightest snarl flickered across his face, finding it infinitely harder to maintain his composure, this having gotten to him quite significantly.
"Perhaps if there were more people who did care, rather than people like you, then I might not have to.""People like me?" she repeated, snorting, "You're the only one who cares about this!" she practically spat.
The magizoologist instinctively stretched to his full height, a rumbling in the back of his throat, the beginning of a growl forming, reducing the space between them significantly.
"Is that not all the more reason why my work is important?" he asked, any attempt at remaining civil vanishing, "Because people like that think that they are so much greater than the creatures and so don't think they deserve to be protected, but they're wrong." he said, his voice louder than it needed to be."Are you implying that I think so highly of myself that I don't care about anything else?" she asked, glaring up at him.
"I had assumed that was obvious."
"How dare you?!" she practically screamed, offended.
"How dare you try to invalidate my life's work?" he retorted, glaring back.
The two continued this back and forth for quite some time, neither willing or able to back down, practically face to face. Newt's teeth were bared, snarling, his reaction being more like one of his creatures, this being evidence of the fact that he had been more in the presence of these creatures, causing his behaviour to adapt in such a way.
The sheer intensity of the argument had hit Queenie, despite her not even being in the same building, genuinely causing her to develop quite the significant headache, not able to block it out.
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Harry Potter one shots and miscellaneous short stories
Fiksi PenggemarA range of Harry Potter related stories, a range of aus, a range of ships. Comment any requests and stuff! Cover from Pottermore