Maybe the contempt wasn't as strong as it used to be, but that under lying need to make yourself known was still there full force and it seemed that everyone around you saw something that you didn't and maybe that was what was irritating you do bad.
Any way, he strolled in like he owned the place, probable because he did but that doesn't matter, not to you at least.
He looked nice enough but who really knows now a days.
There was a girl draped over his arm and, really, if he were true to himself he could understand why she wanted to be there but he didn't, so he figured, why try?
So he stood back as the hero got the girl and he watched on a side kick and alone, but really, if you looked close enough you could see that he didn't even believe his own half baked clauses and lies.
He knew that even if teddy got the girl he wouldn't be the side kick.
James shouldn't be the side kick, he knew that he would be left alone as well.
It wasn't some weird parental thing, where he felt that he need to place his son on some pedestal , no he knew that James meant more then a side kick to a hero, in teddy's eyes.
He meant a lot to teddy, who was always a little black sheep, much like Ron was when they were still in school.
He knew that like Ron, teddy was the real black sheep in the family, not because he wasn't really theirs, no on the contrary.
It was because, not to be mean, but teddy enjoyed being his self and sometimes his parents.
Teddy saw pain in a different way then other people and god did they feel it sometimes.
And James would always be James to teddy, just like teddy would always be teddy to James.
It was almost something more, it might have been something more, if it weren't for the fact that they grew up together.
Or maybe it was because Ginny had pushed the concept of brother on the two greatly,, that they saw each other in that light and not something else, something more.
He wasn't disappointed with the way things had gone, but some natural order seemed to be passing by.
Like a potter and a Lupin needed to be together some where along the road.
Just like a black should have been in on the mix too.
It was like watching a bit of heart stop beating, all the while the rest of the muscle keeping up.
Painful, confusing, and frustrating as well as complex and impossible to imagine.
But not that hard, because Hermione seen the same thing.
'Harry did you see that? It was so cute and couple-y' was a favorite with Hermione when ever they would see Ted and James together.
So it wasn't some weird idea, no,, it was life telling him what to see, and expect.
He was a little sad when James was just teddy's brother, but then again, they weren't going to be the last generation of Potter's or Lupin's.
No, this was only the beginning of what was once was a beautiful friendship.
