Thanks again for my reviews. I really do love you all. Lysander now, Luna's other son. Does anyone exactly how much younger Luna's kids are? I know JKR said Luna got married later than the others, but that doesn't mean there's a huge age difference.

Next chapter is Fred Weasley the second, if anyone was wondering.

11. Lysander

1. It never occurred to him that the things his mother would tell him and Lorcan, the creatures she would describe, were anything but fact. She never said they weren't real, and so Lysander assumed they were. And he had no trouble believing in them. Even when Lorcan looked blankly at him and said that of course they were stories, not real, he didn't doubt it. Even when Lorcan tried to prove they weren't real, he didn't doubt it. They were always real to him.

Even when he was old enough to realise their mum had no actual proof, he couldn't bring himself to stop believing. Didn't want to, either.

2. He was the one who introduced Lily to mead. She'd always drink fire whiskey, despite how much she hated the taste. One day when she sat talking to him, wincing at loud noises and sudden movements, muttering that she felt horrible, he asked why if she liked fire whiskey. He'd tried it himself and almost threw it back up, such was his dislike of the taste. She looked at him blankly, and shook her head, saying that it tasted horrible, but she liked being drunk.

And so the next time they were at a party together, he took the fire whiskey from her, and handed her a glass of mead, saying she might like that a bit more. "And," he added, aware he might end up sounding like someone's mother, "try not to drink too much, OK? You can get a little bit drunk, without being half-dead tomorrow."

She'd laughed, nodded. "OK, then. Let's try being hang-over-less." She managed it, too, and she was always grateful to him for introducing him to a nicer alcohol, which, as Lorcan told him, wasn't something everyone would see as an accomplishment. (Lysander was proud, though.)

3. He and his brother spent a lot of time around the Weasleys, particularly at Harry and Ginny's house. Rose and Hugo were often there, too, and he knew Lorcan had a thing for Rose, though they never really talked about it. But when Lorcan would suggest going to Ron and Hermione's, Lysander would quickly agree, because there was a pretty good chance the Potter kids would be there, too, and even if they weren't they would often arrive if they knew the brothers were there.

And Lysander liked being around the Potter's. Because he'd had a crush on Lily Potter since he was a small boy, though no one knew, not even Lorcan. And while he never made a move on her – she once said something about him being a like another cousin to her – he'd always kind of hoped that one day, maybe they'd end up together.

So he was a little bit heartbroken when she got together with Scorpius, because he knew that she really, really liked this guy. And when she admitted to him that she loved Scorpius...well, it took him several weeks to get over that.

4. Maybe he'll always have those complex feelings for her, but they grew a lot less strong, what with her being all in love, and then getting married and everything. Besides, he values her friendship way too much to try and change anything, even if he did have the chance. So they're just really, really good friends, and that's the way they'll stay. And he was happy for her when she got engaged, and married, and pregnant. And seeing her completely happy with someone else meant it was hard to try and imagine her with him.

That's why he can fall completely and totally in love with someone else.

5. He knew Lorcan was protective of their mum, but he didn't ask why until he was about fifteen. It just didn't occur to him to ask before then – it had been going on so long that he was used to it. Then they were talking, just randomly, and he came out with, "You're always really protective of mum, aren't you? Why?"

When Lorcan explained, Lysander filled with sympathy, but not protectiveness. Yes, it was heartbreaking that their mum had been friendless for several years – and something he couldn't understand, growing up with the huge Weasley family around him – but he didn't find himself feeling at all protective. It was, after all, a long time ago, and their mum had lots of friends now.

Maybe it was then that he realised he and Lorcan were completely different.

6. He was always slightly better at magic than Lorcan. Not that Lorcan was bad at it – though that's what Lysander had initially thought, when his brother kept getting it wrong – but Lorcan had a tendency to not put a lot of effort in. So Lysander had the better spell work, the better potions, the better homework marks. (Though in exams they always got pretty much the same, because even Lorcan couldn't not work hard for the exams that decided whether or not he'd be allowed to stay at Hogwarts.)

But when Lorcan accidentally turned his hair purple, Lysander was extremely jealous. It looked, he thought, fantastic. Unique. And all because Lorcan was too lazy to pronounce his incantations properly, or do the right wand movements!

And though he really wanted to change his own hair, he knew that if he changed his hair colour, then everyone would think he was just copying Lorcan.

Then, when he was fifteen, he decided, screw it, he was going to be different, too. He needed the individuality, his own identity. So he turned his own hair green, then blue, then orange – only for a short time – and then every other colour you could imagine, trying to find one that fit him. Trouble was, he'd soon get bored of a colour, and want to change it again. So while Lorcan was "the kid with the purple hair", Lysander was "the kid who keeps changing his hair." And he rather liked that. (By nineteen, though, he'd had enough, and reverted back to his normal hair colour.)

7. He's the only wizard he knows who can actually work a muggle computer. They were taught all about muggle technology in Muggle studies, and he found it very straight forward and interesting, though most of his friends got frustrated, and Lorcan actually blew the one he was working on up, saying that the thing was stupid, anyway.

Even his muggle-born friends don't use them, and don't want to, but Lysander likes them, and is really good with him. His brother still sometimes affectionately calls him a computer geek.

8. Maybe it's their mother's genes – because even they won't pretend she's normal, but they like her that way – but he and Lorcan are sometimes rather strange. Not that it's a bad thing. No, Lysander and his brother both agree that weirdness is better than normality.

Sometimes, Lorcan gets in a weird mood, and likes to just sit in silence, in the dark, all alone. Most people find it strange, but he likes to just sit, not think, not feel. The only people he knows who completely accept this habit, without asking if something's wrong with him, or if he's OK, are Lorcan and Lily Potter.

9. But he's never worried about him being "abnormal" because he knows his brother is, too. And it's comforting to know those things.

How exactly does he know that about his brother? Well, there's the purple hair, for one thing. There's the random things his brother comes out with. There's the way he and Lorcan commentate the Quidditch matches, both coming out with amusing, if unorthodox, comments. But the clearest assurance of his brother's strangeness happened during one summer, when Lysander saw Lorcan have a staring contest with owl. Lorcan didn't notice him, not even when Lysander laughed. He still thinks it's the funniest, stupidest thing he's ever seen.

10. The first time he stared at the war memorial at Hogwarts, he read every single name. Each and every one, knowing that each was dead. All lost, to a single war. Because of a single man. And, Lysander things, it's just wrong. Those people, they should have lived.

"There's too many names," he'd murmured aloud.

That's the only thing he and his mum don't agree on - she believes the war was needed, that the cause was worthy. He believes there's no cause worthy enough for that many lives. They tell him he can't understand, he wasn't there, and he replies that he doesn't need to have been there - he's seen the names, and that's enough.