Pandora's Little Pithos of Preteens
A HariPo fanfiction
by mew-tsubaki
Note: These characters belong to J.K. Rowling, not me. This was done for my Pandora's Little Box of Terrors challenge found in the HPFC. You can find the challenge here (just take out the spaces!): http :/ forum. fanfiction. net/ topic/ 44309/ 27638002/ 1/ Read, review, and enjoy! And check out and join the forum challenge!
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Terror: Insanity
Scamander Surprises
His laugh echoed off the stone walls of Hogwarts Castle. By Merlin, that was a lovely prank.
Lorcan Scamander grinned madly to himself. He and his friends Roxanne and Freddie had just set off a miniature meteor shower in the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom. What? Professor Parkinson-Zabini deserved it, the ugly pug-faced witch she was. She had tried telling the twins that their parents were good-for-nothing, foolhardy Gryffindors, just like them.
Okay, so Lorcan had been the one to initiate the prank in their defense, but it was a job done by all three.
He was glad they'd done it. No one went around badmouthing George and Angelina Weasley. And not just because they were the parents of his girlfriend (Roxie) and best mate (Fred). No, Lorcan knew the Weasleys and knew they didn't deserve to be called the like, just as his mother, Luna Scamander née Lovegood, didn't.
Anyone who dared speak otherwise ought to be shut up…or pranked. Thus explains Professor Parkinson-Zabini.
Lorcan was a jokester like the twins. Roxie and Freddie were as much a bad influence on him as he was on them. But he was in Ravenclaw and got by easily in school. The twins…didn't care as much. It didn't bug him when people wondered how he could be friends with them; Lorcan was just as crazy as them.
But what no one but Lorcan's twin knew was that he was crazy with a cause.
How does anyone come to such a conclusion? Good question. "Crazy with a cause" sounds more like a lie than a paradox. But it's the truth. Not only did Lorcan live it, but his twin, Lysander, did, as well.
Lorcan and Lysander weren't just the sons of Luna Lovegood. They were the sons of Rolf Scamander, too. Their granddad was Xenophilius Lovegood, editor of The Quibbler, the zaniest wizard magazine around. Their great-granddad was Newt Scamander. Newt was well-know for his work on creature information, popularized in his book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Luna and Rolf were wizarding naturalists. In a family full of whackos who were forever risking their lives, Lorcan and Lysander had but one goal: to fit in.
Lysander mused often with his brother that they were insane just for having the idea of acting insane. Sander wasn't such a crazed person. He preferred to try and be true to himself; he was further motivated to take that line-of-action when Dominique Weasley became his girlfriend and supported him as he was. Sander often wished that Lorcan felt the same way. It was obvious that Roxanne loved Lorcan no matter what. Roxie had seen Lorcan in some dark times, before…
But that wasn't enough for Lorcan. He argued often with his brother that they wouldn't make it without their idea of acting insane. Who would care if they were? Sander needed to act a little more, too. If he didn't, then it would come out that the Scamander twins were fakes. They were the normal ones. Who knew how their parents would respond to that, especially? It was to be expected that the fruit wouldn't fall far from the tree.
So who knew what would happen if they disappointed their parents and revealed just how sane they were? The fact that they had even come up with this façade…
Lorcan grimly smiled, a sad emotion is his cerulean eyes. Elsewhere in the school, Lysander frowned, his melancholy feeling in his cloud blue eyes. A dark and gloomy thought crossed both of their minds at the same exact time:
It's a mad, mad world…
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XO I love the twins! I can't believe I made them live out something so sad! Xo *bad, mew, bad!* But I still liked this. Actually, this chapter/one-shot is kinda in conjunction with two of my other stories (both Lorcrox –Lorcan/Roxanne), The Motley Princess and Week in Hell. Both are chaptered; TMP is ongoing and WiH is finished (7 chappies). Please check them out if you want more Lorcrox! Or Lorcan. Either way, YUMMY! LORCAN! Xd
The Pansy/Blaise mentioned in passing: It's a spoiler for some of my 2nd gen stories… Read them to find out who else made my Hogwarts faculty list! :D
And review, thanks! 10 terrors down, 4 to go! :D
-mew! :3
Thanks for Betaing, Mor! Yush, we must huggle James! Together! … HEY! GIVE HIM BACK! WE DECIDED YOU COULD HAVE THE FIRST JAMES! … XD X3 *tugs*