"Really?" Newt asks, again, his scientific curiosity dictating his tone of voice. What his companion describes sounds like a sort of magic, but more of the kind of magic that might be found in the Forbidden section of the Hogwarts Library; there to be studied, but never to be employed, especially against another living being.

"That sounds like magic, in a way," he admits. "But of a different sort."

"That must have been useful," he notes. "Against those...whatever they were that we were fighting."