The Best Seraphina Picquery Quotes

Spielman: You've thrown everything at him, I see.
Seraphina: It was necessary.
- He's extremely powerful.
- We've had to change his guard three times. He's very persuasive.
- So we removed his tongue.
[prisoners] Grindelwald!
- Grindelwald! Grindelwald!
[prisoners] Grindelwald! Grindelwald!

Seraphina: He was responsible for the death of a No-Maj. He risked the exposure of our community. He has broken one of our most sacred laws...
Percival: A law that has us scuttling like rats in the gutter! A law that demands we conceal our true nature! A law that directs those under its dominion to cower in fear lest we risk discovery! I ask you, Madam President, I ask all of you... Who does this law protect? Us? Or them?
[smiles bitterly]
Percival: I refuse to bow down any longer.

Porpentina: Madam President, I'm sorry to interrupt, but this is critical...
[looks around to all the people in the room]
Seraphina: You better have an excellent excuse for this intrusion, Ms. Goldstein.
Porpentina: Yes. I do. Ma'am, yesterday a wizard entered New York with a case, this case, full of magical creatures. And, unfortunately, some have escaped.
Seraphina: He arrived yesterday?
[Tina nods]
Seraphina: You've known for twenty-four hours that an unregistered wizard set magical beasts loose in New York, and you see fit to tell us only when a man has been killed?
Porpentina: Who's been killed?
Seraphina: Where is this man?
[Tina sets the case down, unlatches it and then knocks]

[first lines]
Spielman: [to Picquery; about Grindelwald] ... you'll be glad to get rid of him, I expect.
Seraphina: We'd be more than happy to keep him here in custody.
Spielman: Six months are enough. It's time for him to answer for his crimes in Europe.
Abernathy: [meets them at Grindelwald's door] President Picquery, Mr. Spielman, sir. Prisoner is secured and ready to travel.
Spielman: [peers into the cell with Picquery] You've thrown everything at him, I see.
Seraphina: It was necessary. He's extremely powerful. We've had to change his guard three times - he's very... persuasive. So we removed his tongue.