No início do filme, vemos que Queenie está lutando com a idéia de que Jacob não pode / não vai se casar com ela porque ela se tornou uma pária na sociedade bruxa (essencialmente exilada de seu país de origem) e ele ou ser morto ou obliviado.
Quando ela conhece Grindelwald, ele não apenas não se torna o monstro psicopata que ela tem dito, mas também a faz ser uma mentira convincente sobre ser livre para amar e se casar com trouxas depois que a rebelião terminar. >JACOB: Okay, wait. We talked about this, like, a million times. If we get married and they find out, they’re gonna throw you in jail, sweetheart. I can’t have that. They don’t like people like me marrying people like you. I ain’t a wizard. I’m just me.
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - The Original Screenplay
O que não está claro (e pode ser explicado depois) é se ele é meramente altamente persuasivo ou se sua "língua de prata" é literalmente uma forma de encantamento mágico. De qualquer forma, ela faz sua escolha como resultado dessa conversa.GRINDELWALD: I would never see you harmed, ever. It is not your fault that your sister is an Auror. I wish you were working with me now towards a world where we wizards are free to live openly, and to love freely.
QUEENIE: [a decision] Jacob, he’s the answer. He wants what we want.
Em uma entrevista, a atriz que interpreta Queenie Alison Sudol diz que se divide em três elementos principais; Que aqueles próximos a ela não valorizam seus dons mágicos, que ela se sente abandonada por sua irmã (e por Jacob) e que Grindelwald parece estar prometendo um mundo no qual aqueles com seus tipos de visão serão valorizados.
“I feel like in some ways she’s too there and that’s part of the problem. She’s tapping into all human beings at all times and that’s a lot for one person to hold and everybody closest to her is always going, ‘Don’t read my mind.’ So she has a huge power and yet is made to feel like she’s nothing and that’s bad. That could make anyone feel crazy. And women historically have this huge intuition and have been punished for that intuition forever. How many women have been in a mental institution because they’ve been called crazy when they’re just not allowed to be honest or be who they are?”
“Jacob doesn’t come with her,” she explains. “It’s not so much about Jacob not coming with her to the dark side, it’s like, ‘Jacob, walk with me, we’re in this together.’ And she doesn’t have those two, so who does she have? Newt’s kind of betrayed her — he called her out, it was embarrassing. What does she have?”
“I still believe in her heart of hearts she’s going over to fight what she believes in,” Sudol says. “Grindelwald is saying, ‘we’re creating a different world’ and the world that she is in is broken. I don’t believe she’s turning evil. It’s more like she’s trying to find somebody who is giving her an option. He’s manipulating her but he’s manipulating everybody. He even did that with Dumbledore.”