He smiles at her answer. Somehow, Tina Goldstein finding the fall as her favorite season makes perfect sense to him, at least, from what he knows and understands of the woman beside him. He can picture, suddenly, her and Queenie, playing together in the leaves on the grounds of Illvermorny on cold, New England fall days. The image warms his heart; that warmth seeps through into his smile.

"Fall is the season for holidays," he notes. "Were you found of Halloween, by any chance?"

It's wonderful, he thinks, getting to know Tina like this. Perhaps these are details people don't care about but Newt does. He finds he wants to find out about how this beautiful, intelligent, and capable woman feels about just about everything in the world. And, never one to be able to suppress his emotions, the yearning shows clearly in his face.