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A/N: The ages listed are the ages I expect the characters were in the epilogue. They aren't necessarily that old in the sketch. The sketches are in age order, but for everyone that's the same age, remember they're sorted alphabetically, so someone listed later might be sorted first.
Inheritance
XxMookinexX
Based off of the Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling.
I. Teddy, 19, can't keep a straight face.
As a Metamorphmagus, he liked that he could choose whom he looked like. When he was younger he hadn't known how to control it, but these days it was only when he was excessively angry that he lost control and his hair spun into curls.
Before Hogwarts, if he wasn't at the Potters' or with Andy (his Grandmother Andromeda refused to let him call her something so detached), he always ended up with Weasley red hair, blue eyes and freckles out of some bizarre need to fit in. Sometimes he'd wake up covered in hair after dreaming about his dad, and several times he hurt himself trying to shave it all off before anyone saw.
If only his mum had been there to tell him what to do. He'd really needed her at times. She'd have told him how to avoid growing a monobrow when he frowned. She'd have understood how hard it was some days when people laughed. Being a teenager was awkward enough without your body having a kaleidoscopic mind of its own. The worse thing was trying not to take on the characteristics of whomever he was talking, or worse, thinking about. It was hard to keep a secret when you had an emotionally responsive appearance.
In care of magical creatures classes he sometimes ended up with a completely non-human nose or huge ears. It used to take him ages to get them back just the way he liked them. Vic liked to joke that he spent more hours in front of a mirror than she did, and it wasn't funny because Teddy knew it was true. He didn't know why he bothered. The moment anyone said anything that surprised him, his hair would stand on end, and all that preparation would be wasted. It was one of the Potters' favourite games to see who could sneak up and scare him the most. They'd compare notes on the length of his hair. At the moment Al was winning.
Most of the time he tried to look like his dad, but sometimes with Harry his eyes would turn green.
It wasn't fair. As much as Harry was a surrogate father to him, thinking that felt like a betrayal. It was all right with Andy. She was his grandma, so he knew his mum would understand, but he had a complex about his dad. He always felt he was more like his mum. Why else would the hat have been so sure he belonged to Hufflepuff before his insistence that it had to be Gryffindor? He wanted to be like his dad. The kind hearted, self-sacrificing, brilliant man his mum had fallen in love with.
When he told Harry this, Harry had laughed and said: "In that respect, Teddy. You already are."
No one else but a Lupin would try so hard to be what he already was.
Author Notes – I've been captivated by this funny family. I like to read next generation fics, but I get a little annoyed when they aren't given their own personalities. I will mention a few OCs, because I wrote this in tandem with another story of mine, but it's not necessary to read that, and I've deliberately anonymised any OCs who don't have an already established canon surname.
In my mind Lorcan and Lysander are six, because Luna and Newt got married a lot later than everyone else according to J.K.R.'s interviews. Also, we know that the kids have to be born in this order because family trees are drawn with the oldest first. I'm ridiculously anal about that kind of thing. Not the ages, but that Victoire is older than Dominique, who is older than Louis. That Freddie is older than Roxanne. That Molly is older than Lucy. That Lorcan and Fred were the oldest twins, and Lysander and George followed behind.
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