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REVIEW: (NEW!)Luna Lovegood and Scamander's children: Lorcan and Lysander

Hermione and Ron's children: Rose and Hugo | Bill and Fleur's: Louis, Victoire, and Dominique | George and Angelina's: Fred II and Roxanne | Harry and Ginny: Albus Severus, James Sirius, and Lily Luna.

*Neville and Hannah's: Alice (non-canon)

DISCLAIMERS: I do not own any of J.K. Rowling's creations.

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CHAPTER III: The Road to Oddness

CHOO! CHOOO!

It was 11:00am and the train voiced out that it was finally time to go. Not literally, of course.

"Once I become the headmaster I'll tune that blasted noise down!" James declared as he massaged the periphery of his ears. Albus just smiled at his brother and proceeded looking at the window and joined Rose in waving their goodbyes.

James noticed that he was being ignored and just grinned at their family that was left behind. He wouldn't really say it out loud, but he was going to miss them.

As soon as the station was out of sight, everyone proceeded to seat properly. Rose opened her novel telling the boys she was not going to start a conversation. James offered her some chocolate dirt worms but she said she wasn't hungry, so James shifted couches to sit beside his brother and offered it to him.

"What flavor?" He asked semi-interested.

"Cherry Strawberry."

"You're the only one who eats that, James." Al noted getting James to grin. No one liked to eat brown string things with red goo inside, even if they're not really worms – other than James, of course.

"Precisely. I just don't want you to say I don't even bother to offer…again."

"What about treating us? You got a lot of profit yesterday from the Aping Seashell."

"No way." came his swift reply.

Al sighed. Of all the qualities he could inherit from their mother it just had to be her stinginess. Their father said that other than his face, James was a carbon copy of their grandfather. Al wished he saw that memory of one of his namesakes, all he knew about Severus was someone that everyone thought was intimidating.

Al was not intimidating, he was quiet and to some degree – shy. His mother always reassured him with saying that he was just like his father he was his age, although Al couldn't be exactly sure whether or not she was just trying to cheer him up.

Moments later, they heard the door knock.

"Knock, knock." A voice from the other side uttered after the actual knock.

"Come in, you two!" Al answered, purposely not asking 'Who's there?' since they heard the joke a thousand times already.

"Aw, Al… You're such a kill-joy." A good-looking young boy with dirty blonde hair mumbled while he lazily slid the door. He was followed by another boy looking exactly like him.

The two boys had the same clothes on, and nothing really to distinguish one from the other physically. They dressed up exactly alike to emphasize their 'twin-ness' since their appearance and way of speaking was the only thing that they truly had in common—on other things like hobbies and interests: they were polar opposites.

The two boys were the only children of famed Naturalists—Rolf Scamander and Luna Lovegood, but only Lorcan was really following their footsteps. Lysander's brain was hardwired for creativity and arts. He was more like his grandfather, Xenophilius Lovegood.

"What took you so long, Scamanders?" James asked as he chewed his candy. They were probably late and got on the train the last second forcing them to sit on some random chair.

"Lysander here overslept." The first one to enter stated monotonously with his eternally sleepy face (In contrast with eternally shocked expression of their mother).

"Oh, please. Don't speak as if you were awake the whole night, Lorcan." The younger of the two lethargically countered. They're not really sleepy – they really just talked that way. They were actually quite talkative... well, at least with them.

"Oh hush and sit down, you two." Rose ordered getting the two to flinch at the sound of her voice.

"ROSE~!" Lorcan called excitedly. To his standards, anyway. "I heard the Floo Network vomited you." Lysander continued getting Rose to scoff. Not at her little failure – but at the haughty face of a certain blonde she met…

"Oh shut up, and sit down." She just ordered without taking her book down, and the twins immediately followed. They ran to her sides and sat there… to squash her.

"Hey! So much space near the window and the door – move! Or make sure the windows will hoover you out!" Rose yelled an almost uncharacteristic manner. She didn't really mean it (for the most part, anyway) but when it came to twins (including James and Fred together) being their usual annoying selves, one had to do some hard threatening to tame them.

"…Yes, Ma'am…" The mumbled and moved away.

By an inch.

Rose sighed and just decided to shrug it off. She knew the two's odd attachment to her and it wasn't like she couldn't read anymore, anyhow. She thought she'd finally be able to read in peace when she felt another's cheeks on hers.

"Whatcha' reaaading~?" Lorcan chanted with a smile leaning ever so close.

"A Book, of course~!" Lysander answered following his brother's movements.

Rose's eyes twitched. How the bloody hell was she supposed to read now?

"At the count of three, I'll turn everyone else in this couch to stone." She stated stoically getting the two to wince. She would do it, if anyone knew about advanced spells, it would be her.

Well it was a lie (she didn't know that, how could she?) but she'd use her reputation if she had to.

"Hey! You're not allowed to cast that spell yet!" Lorcan exclaimed only to be ignored.

"One." She whispered as she took out her wand. Al decided to help the twins out, but to no avail.

"Ro—"

"Two."

"AHH!" The two simultaneously shouted as they stood up and ran to the other couch.

And so, it was Al and James' turn to get squashed.

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The students arrived at their destination just after nightfall. Stepping out of the cars and being met by the cold night winds, the students stretched as if they couldn't move inside the train.

They were greeted by an old friend: Rubeus Hagrid. But now he's being stared at admiringly, rather than just because he's odd as in Harry's time, thanks to his reputation during the war.

"Hagrid!" The elated Al called. Rose beamed as well, while the other three boys followed. Rose and Al gave him a huge hug, while the boys gave them a high-high-high five.

"It's been almost a year since I last saw 'yer. Ya' sure have grown quite a bit, eh? How's Harry, Ron, and Hermione? And Luna, of course!" He grinned. They were about to continue chatting when they finally realized they were being stared at.

"I think you better lead the way now, Hagrid." Rose whispered with an amused tone of voice as she stifled a giggle. The half-giant just nodded with a grin.

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Hagrid led them to small boats that magically moved by themselves, like some invisible string are tugging them along, and an even more indiscernible pathway ensuring the boats kept a straight line. It was slow, but the travel time wasn't long. They were in Hogwarts land before they knew it.

In land, carriages that moved by themselves too were to take them to the final destination. The sound they made would remind muggles of trollies. Still, Rose and the twins knew better, of course.

"Thestrals, Al. They're being pulled by Thestrals." Rose corrected her cousin who was enviously watching James, who was a 3rd year student. That meant he could get into one of the carriages with a few of their other cousins.

"Thestrals?"

"Yeah. They're mostly invisible. Only people who had witnessed death can see them, like Mum and Uncle Harry." Lorcan stated as a-matter-of-factly.

"Ah…"

"Then they're like from the underworld…?" A newcomer asked from behind Al, and they all turned to look at her. She was a tall girl with long auburn hair. She was a bit chubby, like her father, and very lovable.

"No." The twins replied in unison, visibly offended. Rose smiled at the girl.

"Hello, Alice." Rose greeted, and then shifted her gaze at the glaring twins and back to the newcomer. "These are the Scamanders. Scamander twins meet Alice Longbottom – she doesn't mean to offend, you have to admit it's normal to induce such thoughts."

Rose's words seemed to somewhat calm the twins down, but Alice still gave off a bad first impression to the future Naturalists. Rose sighed. After all, one of the most uncomfortable moments one could be in was when your friends were uncomfortable with each other. She looked at the twins and decided to clear things up.

"Her mother's the landlady of The Leaky Cauldron." The boy's sleepy eyes to widened slightly at that.

"Are you, now?" Lorcan asked, intrigued, with a small smirk gracing his face. The Leaky Cauldron was one of the gateways connecting the muggle world to theirs. And naturalists—wizarding or not—believed that everything was connected. Alice nodded earning herself a compliant grin from the two boys.

The shy Alice blushed from the sudden attention she was getting from two rather good-looking young lads. Al and Rose chuckled silently at the sight, but Rose's smile disappeared immediately when she felt a rather hostile glare from somewhere from her side.

She immediately looked behind but there were too many kids like them (the fact that most of them staring at the time didn't help). She stared at the general direction, but she couldn't quite pin-point who threw it. That was, until she saw that face she always associated with a fruit.

She felt someone's hands on her shoulders but her eyes never left Scorpius. She saw his eye twitch.

"Rose?" Lorcan asked her pulling her out of her trance. "Let's go." He said pointing at Hagrid who had then started walking. Rose nodded in assent and just shrugged the thoughts away.

No use bothering herself about it, after all.

But she did, anyway.

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END OF CHAPTER III

Coming Soon:
CHAPTER IV: The Monkey is sorted with the Eagles
The hat says it all.

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