Chapter one

No idea how this is guna go, got a bit bored of waiting for updates from other nice long stories so decided to keep myself entertained with this. Hope it's ok feel free to let me know what can be improved on. Also just for future reference I'm not sure how often I'll be able to upload, but of coarse I'm being a bit presumptuous, there would have to be someone who wanted to read it to be annoyed at my lack of updates?ᅡᅠ

After the war had been won and Voldemort had been defeated, the wizarding world had expected to enter a golden era of peace, and for the most part they had. Followers of voldermort had split in factions, some had gone into hiding, keeping their beliefs to themselves, quietly trying to assimilate to new lives, often fleeing to other countries Some more outspoken groups had been rounded up and sent to Azkaban. Other, much more dangerous higher ranking followers disappeared completely, apart from every few years when they would execute a violent reminder that there are still those who believe winners write the history books and that the real hero of the wizarding world lost on the 2nd of may 1998. This is the world the next generation lives in, an uncertain peace, as if the world in which they live is resting upon thin cracking ice with nothing but darkness ready to swallow them whole.

The first time he saw her she was a mere 5 hours old.

Edward 'Teddy' Lupin had been spending some time with his godfather and his wife, Harry and Ginny potter, when Bill and Fleur Weasley welcomed their first child into the world. They insisted Teddy visit them at the hospital as soon as possible. They had grown very close to him after the war was won and they found it difficult to conceive their own child. Instead of letting themselves feel disappointed and depressed they threw themselves into helping to care for him. They stepped up when Harry and Ginny were navigating the minefield that is being newlywed, helping to take care of Teddy when Andromeda had work (she is a young grandmother after being only 44 when Teddy was born). Bill would take Teddy flying around their garden on his broom., Fleur of coarse was a nervous wreck the whole time and couldn't take any more after five minutes, although she couldn't help but give them a worried smile at the sound of the toddlers peels of laughter.

Now that they finally had their own child they knew things would have to change but would always hold a special place for Teddy, and would still insist on being a part of raising him, which included sharing the most precious moment of their lives despite him not really understanding what was happening.

"Right here we are. Are you ready?" Harry asked the wide eyed toddler as they stood outside the hospital room. Teddy stared up eagerly at Harry, who nodded toward the room, signalling it was ok to go in. Teddy walked into the dimly lit room slowly.

"Bill!" As soon as he saw Bill he ran over for one of Bills big bear hugs. It had been a long labour and so a few days since Teddy had seen both Bill and Fleur.

"Are you ready to meet your new best friend, mate" A beaming smile on Bills face as he walked over the the bed where Fleur and their precious newborn were. He placed Teddy on the wide hospital bed next to Fleur. She wrapped her free arm around the toddler kissing the top of head.

"Flower!" Teddy had found it difficult to pronounce Fluer, and had naturally started to call her flower.

"Bonjour Teddy bear, would you like to meet our leettle Victorie?" All the while Teddy had been staring wide eyed at the soft pink bundle in her arm. This had probably been the longest length of time Teddy had gone without moving or shouting. He looked up at Fluer after a time.

"Bebe?"

"Zat ees right, baby" she whispered, giving him a little squeeze

Teddy was not known for being gentle, in fact at his grandmothers house the rule was if it's breakable and not out of reach you might as well say goodbye, and yet when reached out his small hand, it was with the gentlest softest feather touch.

As he stroked her check, Victorie squirmed and scrunched her face. Teddy was about to take his hand away, terrified he had done something wrong, when her tiny hand emerged from the blankets and grabbed hold of his finger tightly, settling immediately. In that moment it were as if there was a new hope born with this generation. Both Fleur, Bill and Ginny, who had been snapping as many pictures as humanly possible, all had tears glistening in their eyes, Harry watched on, a satisfied smile on his face. These are the moments that make the sacrifices they have all had to make, bearable.

Over the years the new hope-filled generation welcomed more children to its ranks, Victorie got a little sister and a little brother, Dominique and Louis. In between and following were many cousins, there was never a shortage of play mates, however there was something special that Victorie and Teddy shared. When she was a baby Teddy would do anything to make her giggle, make faces, jump and dance like a wild thing, jump out and scare anyone who came into the room, anything to hear her laugh. When she was learning to walk it was Teddy she was trying to get to while her mother held on to her hands. He held out his arms a short distance away ready to catch her, she took a few tentative wobbly steps forward then crashed into him, both ended up giggling and crawling around on the would make forts out of sheets, Teddy would tell Victorie stories and make shadow puppets late into the night. They even attempted to build their own treehouse in the garden at shell cottage, it was more like an accident waiting to happen, but they were still very pleased with themselves when they stood back and admired their handy work.

As Teddy got older, Andromeda liked to take him on exotic holidays for weeks at a time, exploring new cultures, meeting new people, experiencing new lands, that she knew his mother and father would have wanted to show him. It was something Teddy both looked forward to and dreaded.

He loved going to these new exciting places but there was a part of him that hated leaving Victorie behind. To begin with, Victorie would cry and hold on to Teddy when he told her he was going away. As she got older though, she would be excited for him and for the stories and presents he would bring back to tell and show everyone. It was hard to be lonely with such a large family anyway, even if Victories and her sister, Dominique clashed a lot and Louis was more interested in hanging out with the other boys, there was always Molly, uncle Percy and aunt Audrey's eldest daughter, to talk to and play with, and the younger cousins to dote on.

For Victorie though, no one else quite understood her, no one else knew her quite as well as Teddy, after all they had spent just about every day together from the moment she was born. So when he wasn't close by it felt like something of herself was missing.

When he came home that missing piece returned with him. Depending on the weather they would sit on the beach watching the sea send waves in and out, or they would sit in front of the fire in the living room of shell cottage with hot chocolates, as Teddy would describe all he had seen on his latest trip.

"It was amazing Tori! You can't even imagine how massive the pyramids and the sphinx is, I said to gran they must have had to use magic to build them. No way could they do it without magic."

"Wow, I can't wait to see them myself," Victorie said as she flicked through the photos he had handed to her.

"Don't worry we'll definitely go one day. Maybe we could even dig up an undiscovered mummy!"

"That would be so cool, as long as it's not cursed, or comes alive!"

It was a blissful childhood to say the least, every other day it seemed there was a baby born, a birthday or occasion to be celebrated, and even the uneventful days were filled with imaginative adventures, heated arguments and belly aching laughter.

However, soon it came time for Teddy to go to Hogwarts.