Author's Note: Written for the Character Diversity Boot Camp challenge at HPFC. Anything you recognize is a creation of JK Rowling. Anything you don't is either based on her work or a creation of my own. 3

Gobbledygook: Lorcan Scamander

Twins were always closer than normal siblings, that was what people always said. That was certianly the case for Lorcan and Lysander. Born mere minutes apart, the two boys had been inseparable from the moment they'd come home in their parents' arms. They were alike in so many ways that only the closest of their family members could tell them apart, and Lorcan was quite fine with that. He knew there'd come a day that they'd want to go their separate ways and be their own people, but today wasn't that day. Instead, they were curled up in the backyard, poring over a book of some foreign language or another. Lorcan squinted at the symbols on the page, trying to make them fall into some pattern that he could understand or make sense of.

It was all gobbledygook to Lorcan, however, and he didn't think Lysander knew any better than he did. Then again, they both spent too much time with their noses buried in books – most of the things they talked about seemed like gobbledygook to the people around them. It was only fair that they'd eventually come up against something neither of them could understand. He doubted his twin would admit that, but that was beside the point. "Do you know what it says?"

Lysander just scoffed as though Lorcan was silly for not realizing what it said. "Of course I do. It's gobbledegook. You should know that." Lorcan knew better, though. Even at the age of ten and a half, he'd come across a few books that had sections on the goblin language, and that was not it.

"No, it isn't. I would know that, if it was." There was always just the tiniest bit of resentment there, in the back of Lorcan's mind. Lysander was the more assertive of the two of them, whereas Lorcan was more likely to fade in to the shadows and not put up a fight. They were going to grow up into very, very different people.

Only time would tell if that would create a rift between them and tear asunder the closer-than-close bond that the two had always shared. Lorcan really hoped that it didn't, because he couldn't picture a life without his twin.