you can definitely retract offers , you ' re just supposed to use common sense about when retracting an offer is fair or not <| sep |> I ' ll agree it ' s a moral gray area , and that he probably shouldn ' t have done it . But for God ' s sake people are acting like he murdered someone here . Just because it wasn ' t the right thing to do doesn ' t mean it ' s an act against humanity . <| sep |> The very fact that Porpentina was arrested and sent for execution in a matter of seconds , with no trial or hearing or anything , leads me to believe that the whole thing was a setup by Graves and people who were . sympathetic to his causeYeah , no shit . The entire point of that was to show that Graves had ulterior motives and couldn ' t have Tina and Newt stick around to conflict with his narrative that the thing attacking people was a beast from Newt ' s case . That he had the authority to mark them for the death penalty with such short notice and no oversight just meant that the corruption he represented had spread to the highest level of MACUSA leadership and could manipulate the american wizard society pretty much without question .