During the Great War Newt was a non-combatant, focused on helping the injured and all the other deeply necessary non-violent stuff. But his fiance, Leta, was an auror and damned determined to prove she wasn't the sort of monster people expected her family to be.
To Leta, with her Slytherin ambition, recognition as a hero - not a villain - was something worth dying for. To Newt, with his ex-Hufflepuff loyalty, choosing to make a suicidal charge at the enemy when you had loved ones waiting for you to come home - who begged you not to do anything dangerously heroic - was unthinkable. But it's hard to hate someone when you can understand how deeply important it was to them, even if it hurts to know that you ranked less important than that.
*whistling* Billy don't be a hero, don't be a fool with your life...
Leta/Newt, In which there are more ways to hurt someone badly than being evil, Death/Suicide
To Leta, with her Slytherin ambition, recognition as a hero - not a villain - was something worth dying for.
To Newt, with his ex-Hufflepuff loyalty, choosing to make a suicidal charge at the enemy when you had loved ones waiting for you to come home - who begged you not to do anything dangerously heroic - was unthinkable. But it's hard to hate someone when you can understand how deeply important it was to them, even if it hurts to know that you ranked less important than that.
*whistling* Billy don't be a hero, don't be a fool with your life...