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Toasted Chestnut
Lysander
volume, spiral
Lysander Scamander was not on a downward spiral in life.
He was the downward spiral.
Everything he did, he did hard. He lived hard, he partied hard, he ran hard, he drank hard. There was no such thing as a shot glass to him—he took his scotch straight out of the bottle, thanks. He only listened to his music with the volume all the way up. And if he was ever going to eat those nuts his mother always insisted on him eating because they were "good for him", those nuts he had been refusing to eat ever since he was a kid, he was going to toast them to crisps first and fill the entire house with the scent of burning chestnut, the scent of things that were supposed to be good for him, going up in smoke.
So he got detention a lot. So he was called a "nuisance" and a "menace" a lot. So he disappointed his father a lot. So what? It was his life and he was going to do it big, no regrets.
And when he died, he wouldn't do it like everyone else, no way. He'd do that hard, too.