Prologue
Lorcan and Lysander Scamander were brothers. Twins, to be exact. They had spent every single second of their lives together, never parting even once. Always traveling the world with their parents (both of whom were naturalists), neither of them had ever really had friends, or indeed anyone to truly count on other than each other. They spoke each others words, thought each others thoughts, and lived each others lives. All this made it even more difficult when the two boys found out that they would be spending the rest of the year, and probably longer, apart. Their parents had decided to travel to America in hopes of finding more solid proof of the Crumple-Horned Snorkack, and they had decided that Lorcan and Lysander were to have a proper education. Lysander had received a full scholarship for Durmstrang Institute, the school that their father had gone to, while Lorcan would be attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the school where their mother had been educated. Neither boy was happy about the choice that their parents had chosen for them, but, as Durmstrang was a good school, Luna and Rolf had not wanted to waste a scholarship, and as Lorcan hadn't passed the test to receive one, there was nothing they could do about it.