Chapter 1: How It All Begun

Now you might think that this is another one of those stories, girl meets boy, girl falls for boy, boy hurts girl, boy apologizes and realizes he loves girl, boy and girl lives happily ever after.

However, it's not.

You see, there isn't any opportunity for love in my life, and no candidate I would even consider falling for. Except one, and he's out of reach. And I blame the universe, because the universe has screwed my life up from the beginning. And with beginning I mean beginning, with my family.

My family is a bunch of lunatics, and I'm not. Actually I'm pretty smart, okay, I'm not smart, I just pretend to be smart since I'm a Ravenclaw. I'm just barely passing potions, but it's not my fault. It's just too similar to cooking!

But now that wasn't the point, the point is that my mother is an eccentric woman, and my father is mostly out traveling since he's a magizoologist. My twin brothers are a couple of creatures I don't even want to think about. I think I hate them. I mean, as much as you can hate someone who's related to you. But then I'm starting to think that I'm not really related to anyone in my family, and that I'm secretly adopted.

Oh please say I'm secretly adopted, I beg of you Merlin.

But at the moment, I'm not. Crap.

Have you guessed my name yet? No? So then I'll have to go through the whole describe-myself-as-a-really-wonderfull-and-cute-person-whithout-knowing- it? I thought so, don't laugh, it always sounds funny when you're describing yourself.

I'm Lux Scamander, only daughter of Rolf Scamander and Luna Lovegood Scamander. I'm at my sixth year at Hogwarts, while my two lovely (read disgusting morons) brothers Lorcan and Lysander are in their seventh. As I might have mentioned before, they are the most infuriating people on the face of the earth (except for Albus Jackass Potter) maybe. Or Leroy Goyle, but he's just plain scary.

Aaaanyway, my brothers are Gryffindor's, and friends with James Potter and Fred Weasley, the four of them might be the most troublemaking boys of Hogwarts History. And unfortunately that does concern me, since I'm a prefect, and currently wishing to become head girl next year.

But the problem is, no one has any respect for me, because I'm Lux Scamander, the Odd one in her family because she isn't odd. Odd isn't it? And from the moment I started Hogwarts my brothers taunting and teasing rubbed off on the rest of the school, somehow making me a target for bullying. Only everyone thought it was just a joke and laughed, which it was. In the beginning.

I don't know if it's my looks or just the way I act. I'm not very tall, but I'm not very short either, but I'm petite (read thin) which makes me look like I'm very small. I still have a soft suntan from the summer when I went traveling with dad, and I have the same blonde hair as my mother. I usually wear it in a tight braid, otherwise it always gets in the way. And I've colored the tips dark blue, just because I wanted to.

I've also inherited my mothers eyes, a kind of lazy grey, or that's how it looks on her, mine are more… furious?

Hey, if you had my life you'd also be angry all the time. I just can't help it.

As a conclusion I look like a smaller version of my mother, but I have my father's button-nose, exactly like my brothers. But everyone always says I'm my mothers daughter.

But I'm not.

I'm not alike her in any way, I don't believe in nargles (what the hell are those anyway?) or the good uses of gnome spit (seriously? It's disgusting). But no one seems to get that, they only see the way I look and never bother to look deeper.

And no this is not any of those stories where someone breaks through my walls and I suddenly become a lot cheerier person. Lux Scamander is not cheery.

Then we come to the name part, Lux means Light in Latin. Funny isn't it? Guess everyone thought I'd have a really bright personality.

But I'm not a bright person.

I really have no idea how my friends stand me. Yes I have friends, even if it surprises people. Unfortunately one of them is the cousin of one of my hate-objects. Rose Weasley, we where friends since the first day, when we where both sorted into Ravenclaw.

Okay I take it back, I don't have friends, I have a friend.

I wonder if it's my clumsiness that scares people away. It enforces my reputation of being odd pretty much. And it fuels the teasing a hundred times. But once again I can't help it, the universe just hates me. I can't help that I can't cross a smooth surface without tripping over my own feet. And usually there is someone there tripping me too. Assholes.

So, I practically have the whole school picking on me or thinking that I'm strange when I'm actually pretty normal. I have one friend, I'm a prefect that no-one listens to or respects my authority.

This is the story of my sixth year, which I thought would be just like any other.

However, it's not.

And with those joyful words, I think we should move onto the actual story. I'm proud to present the beginning of the Extra Peculiar Story of Lux Scamander.

Lux stared at the wall. Or rather, Rose was forcing her face into the poster on the note board outside the great hall. She tried to squirm and squeezed her eyes shut in protest.

"C'mon Lu! It's the first time the spot has been open since our first year!" Rose exclaimed in her ear, as she finally managed to detach herself from Rose's surprisingly strong arms. It was probably the red hair, redheads somehow had these strange powers…

"No, I don't want to!"

"Yes you do!"

"No I don't!"

"Do it for me?" Rose smiled sweetly, her scarlet curls bouncing around her heart shaped face. Lux narrowed her eyes in suspicion.

"Why would I do that?"

"Because I'm your best friend and you love me"

"I don't love you that much"

"That hurt Lu"

"Mission completed then" Lux grinned back at her friend as the two of them finally entered the great hall. Rose rolled her eyes but let the matter slide for the moment. Lux was glad to leave the quidditch poster behind, no way she was going to try out for the team.

She wasn't even good, her family didn't even know she flied. She hadn't even been in the air for years. Rose had accidentally seen her when she did a few laps around the pitch at dawn a few years ago, and then hadn't let Lux forget about it.

But she didn't want to be on the damn team! People would laugh the hell out of her. The girl who couldn't keep on foot in front of the other without tripping. She couldn't fly!

"But you'd get closer to Anthony!" Rose exclaimed, and Lux glared at her.

"Could you shout a little louder? I think there where some slytherins in the dungeons who didn't hear you"

"Pft, don't change the subject. I know you like him" Rose pointedly pointed her fork at Lux.

"That's a preposterous accusation" But oh so true, Anthony Corner was a seventh year Ravenclaw, head boy and captain of the quidditch team. And Lux had been crushing on him for years, but he didn't even know her name. When people didn't laugh at her she was practically invisible.

"Don't you use that tone with me young lady!" Rose mock-scolded her while taking a big gulp of her pumpkin juice. Lux watched her swallow.

"Okay I do, but I have no chance, he doesn't even know who I am!"

"Ehm, everyone knows who you are, you tend to make a lot of noise when you trip over things"

"Okay he knows what I look like, and he's probably laughed at me like a thousand times. But he doesn't know my name"

"Well then let's change that" Rose replied cheerfully. Lux glared darkly at her again. Sometimes she wondered how they had ended up being best friends. But yes, it was because they where the only Ravenclaw girls in their year. They where so different, Rose was pretty, she liked girly stuff and she was popular. Lux where the odd one, she didn't care about makeup and she certainly didn't know how to charm a boy. She hadn't even been kissed yet.

Gasp. There it is. She was sixteen year old and she hadn't even been kissed.

Let's just forget about that okay? Everything in the universe doesn't revolve around boys.

"Just forget it will you, we've only been back at school for a week and I'm already behind with my homework. I've got to study"

"But-" Rose was about to protest when Lux shot up from the table in protest.

"I can't hear you"

"Yes you can"

"What did you say?"

"You're a boring nerd!" Rose screamed after her as Lux started walking away. People turned around and looked at her curiously.

"I love you to Rosie!" Lux winked before leaving Rose behind. She had no idea how Rose had become such a… non-homework-loving-person. Seriously, both her parents had been prefects and she'd met Hermione. That woman should have been a Ravenclaw! But noooo… Rose didn't want to be like her mother, she'd proved that.

Maybe that's what they had in common?

Lux pressed her books to her chest as a shield as she quickly walked down the corridor. Sometimes she wondered if it had been easier being a Hufflepuff, then you wouldn't have to walk up all these stairs every day. Since the Ravenclaw common room where in one of the towers.

"Give me your homework!" Suddenly a rasp voice cut through the otherwise silent corridor. Lux froze, she'd recognize that voice anytime.

"Please don't-"

"What's going on?" Lux stepped around the corner, still clutching her books. The sight that met her was way to familiar to feel comforting. Leroy Goyle, a seventh year slytherin was towering over a fourth year boy in her house. She recognized the boy, he was muggleborn with overly-large glasses. The boy was a complete genius and everyone new it.

"Oh if it isn't our little Scamander" Leroy's face broke into a grim smile, and Lux swallowed, but stayed put. She'd been in that boy's position a million times before.

"Leave him alone Goyle" her voice broke slightly in the middle.

"And what are you going to do about it?" Goyle let go of the boy's collar, and he quickly squirmed away. Lux looked after him, wishing she also could turn on her heel and run.

"If you haven't noticed I'm a prefect and I can put you in detention" She said, and suddenly wished she wasn't clutching her books, she'd rather have her wand in her hand. Goyle was huge, broad shoulders and more then a head taller then her. He hung his head back and laughed.

"You? You? Put me in detention? I don't think so" He grinned grimly, walking closer to her. Lux backed away, and her back collided with the wall. She was cornered.

"I give you one chance to step away fro me Goyle before I hex you into the next century"

"Wouldn't think so, but if you write my essay on vampires I'll call it a tie" Goyle raised a eyebrow, while putting one hand on the wall above hr head. He played with his wand in his hand. Lux swallowed.

"I would rather kiss a frog then help you out, you disgusting ass"

"You prat!" Suddenly his expression had changed from darkly playful to threatening, and he grabbed her collar to push her up against the wall.

"Just telling the truth, there is a reason you aren't getting any girls without threatening them you know, it's because you're more similar to a blast-ended-screwt then a human being" She spat out. Goyle's eyes widened for a second before he let go of her, and she sunk down against the wall, her legs shaking. She didn't have time to duck before he lashed out towards her. The hex it her on the cheek, and all her books went sprawling out on the floor.

"You should learn to keep your mouth shut Scamander, and stay out of my business, if you interrupt me one more time I won't be this merciful" Whit that he aimed a kick towards one of her books and then stalked away. Lux clutched her cheek as her whole body trembled.

How the fuck did this happen? She's a prefect for Merlin's sake. How could she let other people boss her around all the time? People just took for granted that she'd let them, because her brothers did it, and Albus Potter did it. Not even the first years where scared of her, it was humiliating.

"Lux, what are you doing on the floor?" A voice rang out, and she glanced up to see Teddy Lupin, her DADA teacher looking down at her surprisingly.

"Uh- I-I fell" She managed to choke out, and quickly scrambled up. Mr. Lupin was her favorite teacher, and she didn't want him to see her on the floor. It didn't help that he was also the youngest teacher on Hogwarts and handsome. There wasn't a girl on Hogwarts who wasn't effected by his looks. Except for maybe Rose and her cousins, because they knew him.

"Oh" He bent down to retrieve her books, and handed them over to her. "That seems to happen a lot"

"Yeah, but it's not always my fault. Sometimes it's my brothers or Potter's fault" She said grumpily, and Lupin raised an eyebrow.

"Albus?"

"Ugh, don't even say his name"

"I didn't know that" he said, and Lux glanced up at him. She knew the Potters where close to him. Apparently Lupin was Harry Potter's godson or something.

"Well, he's an ass" She nodded quickly at her teacher, and then briskly walked past him. She didn't know why she'd said those things. She was just so annoyed, and angry. And her cheek hurt.

"Hey you two, what are you doing?" She stopped abruptly to glare at two second years who where fiddling in the corner of the corridor. They looked up with innocent faces.

"Nothing"

"Don't lie, I saw that you where holding a dungebomd, where did you get it?" She asked sternly, and the two boys glanced at each other.

"Some people who said that if you asked we shouldn't answer"

"Oh hell, it was my brothers wasn't it?" She face-palmed. And the way the two boys grinned made her know it was true.

"You both have detention"

"WHAT? We didn't even do anything!"

"But you where about to, are you questioning my authority?"

"Yes!" The two boys echoed, and her eyes widened. She seriously needed to toughen up if she was going to survive another year at this hellhole.

"No offence but you're not really scary, and it was your brothers who thought us how to use them. And they told us you wouldn't be able to do anything"

"Well, they're wrong! Now leave!" She pointed at a random direction and the two boys sighed before slowly walking away, not seeming to realize that she was fuming with anger.

She was going to kill her brothers.

She pressed her books to her chest one more time, and changed direction without really thinking of it. Within a few minutes she was standing outside the Gryffindor common room. Knocking on the portrait furiously.

The door opened, revealing one of the people she wanted to see the least at this moment. Albus eyes widened a moment before a smirk spread across his face.

"I would ask what happened to your face Scamander, but then I remembered that's how you usually look"

"Oh screw you" Lux reached up to touch her cheek, and felt it hurt. She probably had a bruise. She pushed past Albus into the common room, and everyone's heads shot up to look at her.

"Ah, beloved sister, what are you doing here and what the hell did you do to your face? Like it wasn't hard enough already to look at you" Lorcan grinned, and Lux closed her eyes for a second. Don't kill him, don't kill him your mother would be angry with you. Lysander, Albus, Henry Longbottom (who'd been her best friend before Hogwarts) James and Fred laughed.

"I just wanted to tell you to stop undermining my authority!" She poked Lorcan in the chest and sent Lysander a glare. Both of them only looked down at her with amused looks.

"What you gonna do about it sis?"

"Uhm, give you detention?"

"Yeah, because that always works out fine"

"Oh shut up! Just leave me alone!" She exclaimed, flinging her arms out, accidentally hitting Henry in the face.

"Ouch"

"Oh sorry"

"No worries" Henry rubbed his cheek and smiled slightly at her. He was probably the only one who was friends with her brothers that she could stand. Lorcan and Lysander simultaneously whistled. Lux and Henry glared a them.

"Henry, I can't believe you stand hanging around with these tosspots every day" She said smugly, inclining her head towards her brothers, Albus, James and Fred. Henry and Albus where best friends and in her year, but they hung out with the four seventh year.

"Believe me I've wondered"

"I'm wounded" Albus whined mockingly at his friend.

"Ah, you should be glad that you got away from her, she's no fun. But we have to stand her" Lysander said and slung an arm around her shoulder.

"Yeah, thank god mum and Hannah was wrong about you two getting together" Lorcan joined in, lunging his arm around her from the other side. Resulting with her being squished between her two brothers. She blushed.

"Shut up" Henry glared at them, as everyone but them laughed. Lux had actually had a crush on him once upon a time. So it wasn't so strange that their mums had thought so.

"Let go of me!" She yelled, as Lorcan ruffled her hair, making strand loosen up from her braid.

"Nah, with a bruise like that no ones going to be looking at your hair. Actually you don't have to worry because no-one will look at you from the beginning" Lysander laughed and high five Lorcan above her head. She wrenched out of their grip angrily.

"I'm so glad this is your last year, and then, after I finish school I'll move away and I'll never have too see you again" She muttered darkly, and her brothers faked hurt faces.

"Ah you wound us dear sister"

"I hate you" She headed for the portrait hole.

"We love you to Lu!" Everyone screamed after her as she slammed the portrait shut.

Well, at least she'd realized one thing.

Her life couldn't get any worse. Maybe trying out for the quidditch team would make them shut up? Lorcan and Lysander where beaters, and Albus was a seeker. It would feel great to win over them.

Okay then. She'd try out for the team. And then she'd kick their ass. Ha!

And oh, she had to make a plan to avoid Goyle. She didn't want anymore bruises, because if people kept making fun of her being ugly her self esteem would hit the floor. Right now it was only in level with her shoes, great isn't it?

She just loved her life.

"You've got to stop hyperventilating Lu, it makes you look crazy" Rose said calmly as she and Lux stood at the corner of the quidditch pitch. Lu was clutching one of the school brooms in her hand and shaking violently.

"I'm going to fail, and then fall of and die"

"You won't die" Rose dragged her towards the huddle that was forming in the middle of the pitch.

"But I'm going to fail" Lux tried to squirm away, but Rose once again used her strange redhead powers and pushed her into the huddle.

"Think about your brothers, and Albus, don't you want to kick their asses?" Rose said with a raised eyebrow. And Lux gave her one last glance before Rose hurried away towards the stands. Suddenly she found that she was the center off attention, everyone was looking at her skeptically.

"What are you doing here?" Cody Davies asked rudely, and she glared at him.

"I'm trying out for the seeker spot" She held her chin up, as a few people sniggered.

"Really? You can't even walk straight, what makes you think you can even stay on a broom?" Cody said, and Lux felt her face drop.

"Shut up Davies, everyone who wants to has the right to try out" Anthony said, giving his keeper a stern glance. Lux felt her knees go weak.

"Just saying what everyone's thinking" Cody muttered.

"Okay, start with a few laps around the pitch to warm up" Anthony waved his hands into the air and everyone scrambled onto their brooms. Lux eyed hers for a second. She hadn't flown in a really long time.

But then the face of her brothers, Albus and Goyle flashed through her mind. And she deliberately pushed off from the ground.

She hovered a few feet over the ground for a second, as the familiar feeling of freedom and easiness washed over her. She didn't belong on the ground, she belonged in the air. She couldn't stumble in the air, she was in complete control.

"You better move it if you want to have a chance Scamander" Anthony looked up at her, squinting towards the sun. Lux felt her face heat off before shooting after the rest of her group.

Anthony Corner knew her name. Anthony Corner with his mahogany brown hair and eyes to die for. He knew her name.

After that Lux walked on pink little clouds, or rather flew on pink little clouds. She didn't screw up, and she enjoyed the look on Cody's face as she snatched the snitch as she flew past him. She easily caught more snitches then the other student's that tried out for the seeker spot. Ha!

When they landed down on the ground again Cody was looking at her in bewilderment.

"Uh, I take it back, you're awesome and if Corner doesn't give you the spot I'll personally yell at him"

"Yell at him, do you think that's going to help?" Lux raised her eyebrow, and Cody shrugged.

"Hey, do you dare do more then yell at the head boy?"

"Point taken"

"Could you please shut up Davies, I'm trying to talk here" Anthony said with a glare towards Cody, who only grinned lazily. He leaned over to Lux.

"He's a tyrant as captain"

"Davies!"

"Sorry sorry" Cody crossed his arms, and Lux chuckled.

"As I was saying, there wasn't much question about it and the two open spots have already been decided" Anthony started, and Lux held her breath and squinted her eyes shut. She heard Rose screaming something on the stands behind her.

"The chaser spot goes to Sunny Clearwater, and the seeker spot goes to Lux Scamander, who surprised us all today. Welcome to the team girls" Anthony smiled directly at her, as Lux opened her eyes in astonishment.

"Welcome to the team blondie" Cody dunked her in the back, as something crashed into her side and made her topple over. It was Rose.

"I knew it! You're awesome and you're going to beat Albus and I can't wait to see his face!" Rose exclaimed happily as Lux chuckled.

"That's great but I won't be able to if you keep squishing me to death"

"Oh" Rose slid off her and stood up, brushing some grass of her skirt. Cody and Anthony looked at her with raised eyebrows together with Rose's cousin Dominique. Dominique was one of the chasers and a seventh year, she was probably the most beautiful girl Lux knew, and she felt intimidated by her. But now she was smiling kindly.

"Welcome to the team Lux"

"You can call me Lu" Lux smiled, and nodded towards Anthony thankfully, he only smiled. Lux had never felt so incredibly happy in her entire life.

The next morning Lux woke up with a smile etched on her face, Rose was almost ready as she sat up from her bed.

"You look cheery"

"I do?" Lux grinned.

Wait.

Cheery? She looked cheery? Oh Merlin, she hated cheery. Ugh, Lux Scamander wasn't cheery, even if she'd just made the quidditch team.

"We've got to hurry, c'mon" Rose prompted and Lux groaned before grabbing her uniform and heading for the bathroom. She splashed some water in her face and checked that the bruise was totally gone. Good.

Not that anyone had made a fuzz about it, everyone had bought the story about her falling. Since she did it, a lot.

She considered herself for a second, then when Rose banged on the door she decided to keep her hair hanging freely around her shoulders, showing off the blue tips that matched her bronze and blue tie. She skipped makeup as usually and slipped into her black boots and then caught her shoulder bag on the way out. She felt like nothing could disturb her newfound good mood.

But then she didn't usually have any luck. And thinking just that was a terrible cliché. Something was just bound to happen.

But did it have to be Albus the Jackass?

"Hi gorgeous, oh wait, you aren't" Albus slung an arm around her shoulders just as Rose had disappeared away to talk to one of her other friends. God Lux needed more friends, Rose kept abandoning her. That prat. Maybe she should sack her as her best friend?

But nah, Rose was awesome. There was no arguing about it.

"Don't you think it's getting a little old telling me how ugly I am?" She said, and shrugged away, he laughed.

"Just telling the truth honey"

"Screw you"

"You volunteering?" Albus raised an inquisitive eyebrow and she gave him a hard scuff towards the Gryffindor table. She heard him chuckle as she turned her back on him, rolling her eyes annoyed. She was just about to sit down at the end of the table and wait for Rose when someone slid up behind her. She turned around in surprise and saw Cody, grinning crookedly.

"Why don't you sit with us?" He pointed towards a group in the middle of the table, including Anthony and Dominique and a few others from the team. Lux looked at him surprise.

"Really?"

"Why not?" Cody slouched an arm over her shoulders, and Lux only smiled at him instead of pushing it away.

"So, is there something between you and Potter or what?" Cody glanced over towards the group at the Gryffindor table with Albus and her brothers and the others. Lux didn't think he looked very happy.

"Nah, he just keeps bugging me, I can't wait to beat him in the first match"

"Great" Cody grinned as they sat down, and Lux smiled shyly towards Anthony. Dominique wasn't as intimidating as she thought, and when Rose joined the group a few minutes later Lux was already warming up.

She'd never felt so accepted, so… liked.

And that people, is how my story begun, welcome to the Extra Peculiar Story of Lux Scamander.

AN: So, I've pretty much gotten the whole story already written, it just has to be reread and stuff. This is mainly improvised because I needed some time off from my more serious fic, so this is going to be focused on humor and sometimes it will be random.

I'd love it if you reviewed!