Okay this just kind of happened? Well, it does have an interesting backstory. So, my friend and I were looking at Teddy Lupin's Wiki page and noticed that gender, eye color, hair color, and skin color were all listed together. My friend read them all quickly and said they were all listed as variable. That's when she realized she had read Teddy's gender wrong, as it is listed as male. BUT TEDDY IS A METAMORPHMAGUS! We quickly explored the idea of a genderfluid Teddy, so this was born. It's basically going to be a bunch of one- shots about genderfluid Teddy Lupin, who has been out and proud their entire life (this will cause issues on occasion). I hope you enjoy!
"Okay, well, welcome everyone to the Hufflepuff common room," announced one of the prefects. What was his name again? Oh ya, Pierre. I looked around the room, noting the bright yellow walls, along with the black highlights. Welcome to Hufflepuff indeed.
So, here are the dorms," Kayla, one of the other prefects, explained, "Girls on the left, boys on the right. And guys, don't think about trying anything, the handles to the doors of the dorm room halls are charmed. I suggest you don't want to experiment with that. Same goes for girls in the guy's dorms. The common room has plenty of space, use it or find somewhere else. Okay everyone can go to their dorms now, your room will be labeled with a first year plaque. Go on and unpack. And enjoy yourselves, you're at Hogwarts!" Everyone scurried off, but I stood immobile. All six prefects turned to face me. This was my cue to wince.
"It's Teddy, right?" asked one of the prefects. I was blanking on his name at the moment. I nodded stiffly.
"So the Headmistress talked to us beforehand, what are your preferred pronouns Teddy?" asked the same prefect, L something. I was shocked. McGonagall had talked to them? Gran and Harry said they would talk to her, and I was overjoyed when my letter came addressed to Mx. Lupin, but I didn't expect this. Well I didn't know what I really expected, but I didn't think there would be all six prefects asking me for my pronouns. I realized I had to answer.
"They/them," I quickly responded, "but, err, sometimes I use he/him or she/her, but not very often and only if I request it that day, but they/them is fine.
Liam, that was his name, smiled, "Okay Teddy, we'll make sure we use they/them, and if we forget or you want us to use something else, just tell us, okay?" I nodded quickly. The conversation seemed to have ended, but I still had no idea what I was doing for dorms, so I just stood there awkwardly.
"Hey everyone, you're forgetting their," my heart warmed at that word, "dorm situation," piped up a sixth year prefect, who I believe was named Abigail.
"Oh ya, sorry Teddy," Jean said apologetically.
The last prefect, Mikhail then piped up, "So tell us if this works for you, in both the girls and boys dorms you would have a bed, and you can use either, or switch off, or whatever, it's up to you. We could also add a separate room for you, but it would probably have to be built off a current dorm, so you would have to choose which one."
Pierre added, "And you don't have to choose right now either, you can choose a place to sleep tonight, even on one of the couches if you want, and decide later. It's all up to you."
I was shell-shocked, "Uh, okay, I think the switching dorms would work fine, but I'll, uh, tell you if something isn't working out?"
"Okay cool," Abigail nodded. With that, I turned to leave for the dorm rooms.
"Oh, and Teddy, if anyone gives you a hard time, house members, other students, teachers, ghosts, the whomping willow, well actually not the whomping willow 'cause it doesn't like anyone, but, seriously, if anyone gives you a hard time, you come straight to us, our head of house Professor Cinders, or the Headmistress. Okay?" Liam said, looking at me seriously.
"Ya, okay," I started to turn towards the dorms, but before I could open the door I turned back, "and thanks, really." I was left with the image of six smiling faces.
Okay before this I had thought of Teddy as a boy, so if I used the wrong pronouns everywhere, please point it out. I'm still getting used to a genderfluid Teddy Lupin and I love it, but that doesn't mean I'm used to the pronouns. if you have any suggestion, please let me know! I would love to hear ideas for this, I already have at least four pieces planned out with more coming all the time. Love you peeps!