Chapter One
A/N: All right, so in response to the poll on my blog, I have decided to start with a CR fic of Unexpected Journey. After that, I'll do one of the Lion and I. Why? I'm bored, I like to write, I have no job and need some way to curb the endless boredom that is summer, etc.
The characters that will be in this story are: Burt Hummel (why? I like him), Carol Hummel-Hudson, Cooper Anderson (Why? …I really don't know), Harry and Ginny Potter.
Read and enjoy!
Harry was sitting at his desk at the Ministry, looking over what he might have missed. Where could his godson be?
"Potter!" Kingsley barked from the fireplace. "I thought I told you to go home an hour ago?"
"I'll be right out in a sec Kingsley," Harry said and Kingsley's glare softened upon seeing the state that Harry was in.
"Harry, we'll find him. It's been two weeks. Give it some time," the minister said and then left the floo. Harry got up and just as he was going out the door, he became enveloped by a bright light.
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Ginny Potter was pacing the floor of Shell Cottage, wondering where Teddy would have run off.
"We've looked at Gringotts Gin," Bill said. "The goblins haven't seen him. Of course, even if they had, they wouldn't tell us. Confidentiality and all that noise."
Ginny nodded, not even listening to her brother. She had to know if Teddy was safe. What if he was hurt? Unable to heal himself because he never finished his seventh year?
"Gin," Bill said gently, "go to Mum's and spend time with Al and Lily. Fleur and I will tell you if we find out anything."
Ginny nodded again and got up. Hugging everyone goodbye, Ginny left but was quickly enveloped in the same white light as her husband had been.
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Cooper Anderson sighed as he re-read the same page he needed to read for an exam in one of his classes. He didn't know why he was having trouble concentrating, but he was.
"Alex, could you turn the music down?" he asked his roommate. Said roommate only turned the roaring rap music up higher. Alex didn't need to study for anything.
"Stupid…" Cooper muttered and didn't even notice the white light that was enveloping him just as it had enveloped the Potters.
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Burt Hummel pulled himself up from the car he was working on to accept a drink from his wife.
"Can you believe Kurt and Finn are in their last year of High School?" Carol asked. "It seemed like only yesterday Kurt was introducing us to one another."
"Time flies," Burt nodded as he drank the offered water. "But they still have time to focus on school, on sports and—"
"On Glee," both parents said at the same time, knowing how important Glee was to their boys. Neither one of them noticed the white light that had enveloped Cooper Anderson, Harry Potter and Ginny Potter.
000
In a room not unlike the Room of Requirements at Hogwarts, the five individuals found themselves wondering where the heck they were.
"Crud," Harry muttered. "What did I drink?"
"Hopefully the same thing I did," Ginny told him. Harry realized that Ginny was there and quickly embraced her with a hug. Over on the other side, Carol was doing the same thing with Burt and Cooper was standing around awkwardly.
"Who are they?" Ginny asked Harry, who finally noticed the remaining occupants. Harry had a hand on his wand, but tried to remain discreet about it in case they were muggles. One of the others was holding on the lone female of their group.
"Who are you?" the tall raven-haired boy asked. Harry looked at him, as if trying to assess a threat. Finding none, but noting the boy's odd accent, he said, "Harry Potter. You?"
"Cooper Anderson," the boy said. "Does anyone know why we're here?"
"Not a clue," Ginny said with a frown. "Thank Merlin Al and Lily were with my mum."
The elder man of the second group gave an odd look at Ginny's use of the word Merlin but didn't comment. A note fell from the ceiling and landed on Harry's head.
"Odd," Cooper raised an eyebrow and snatched it off of Harry's head before Harry himself had a chance to see the note.
Welcome everyone! By now, you should all know each other's names—Burt, Carol, Ginny, Harry and Cooper. Would you like to know why you're all here?
"Yeah," the man—Burt, Harry assumed—nodded. "I've got a tire shop to get back to."
Time outside of this room has been stopped, so there's no need to worry about your families or your jobs. You are here to read—
"Read?" Cooper groaned. "I do enough of that at college!"
"Hey, wait till you get a government job," Harry told the young adult.
-read a story about one Ted Remus Lupin and the New Directions. Please enjoy!
"Why did that sound like Nude Erections?" Ginny asked causing Harry to hide a snort by turning it into a cough.
"Who's Ted Lupin?" Burt asked.
"My godson," Harry said with a serious look on his face. "He ran off two weeks ago and we haven't found him."
A stack of papers falling from the sky and landing on Carol's head cut off Burt's retort.
"These people need to work on their aim," Ginny noted as Carol took the papers off of her cranium.
"Unless they intended to land them on their heads," Harry told his wife.
"Good point."
Burt handed the papers to Harry. "Here. You read them over, seeing as this has to do with your godson."
Harry took the papers and then, purely out of shock, read the summary aloud.
"Teddy's sick of it. Sick of the bulling, sick that he only has two friends and sick of the fact that none of the adults understand. He runs away one November night and moves in right next door to Santana Lopez. What happens when both worlds collide?" he read, and Ginny gasped.
"Who's Santana Lopez?" Cooper asked, curious as to how this pertained to him.
"A member of the New Directions," Carol told him. "Well, seeing as time has stopped, we might as well read. Harry, do you want to read first?"
"Sure," he nodded and flipped to the first chapter. " Unexpected Journey by Ginnyrules27."
"Odd name," Ginny noted.
"Chapter One," Harry ignored his wife's notation.
Chapter One
A/N: I OWN NOTHING!
"Of course this Ginnyrules27 doesn't own anything," Ginny said with a glower.
Teddy sighed as he placed the letter on the bed. He was sick and tired of getting picked on at Hogwarts, no matter how many times his teachers stated that it was simply kids being kids.
"What?" Harry gasped. "Why didn't we hear anything about this? McGonagall should have sent us a notice or something!"
Burt looked at Harry and remembered when he (Burt) found out that a bully had threatened Kurt's life. That had been the worst day of his life—not counting his heart attack. "Sometimes," he said with a sigh, "kids will try their hardest to hide their troubles from you."
"Experience?" Ginny asked with a kind smile.
"You have no idea," Burt said with a nod.
"Yeah right," he scoffed as he slung the duffle bag he'd packed the night before. At school last year he'd turned seventeen which meant that the Trace was off of him.
"What trace?" Cooper asked. Ginny and Harry looked at each other, as if conversing mentally, and then turned back to the group.
"Do you guys believe in magic?" Harry asked, deciding that he'd obliviate them later if he had to.
"No."
"Yeah!" Cooper nodded eagerly, earning odd looks from all the older members of the room. "What?"
Harry sighed. "Okay. Magic…well, it's real. Ginny and I, we can perform magic. I work within the Ministry and Gin was the captain for the Holyhead Harpies."
"The who?" Burt asked.
"All female Quidditch team," Ginny said with a proud grin. "Harry, love, they're probably going to want proof. Why don't you show them Prongs?"
Harry nodded and pulled out his wand. Then, he sighed and shouted "Expecto Patronum!"
Carol gasped as the silver stag charged out from the wand tip and Burt looked amazed.
"Cool," Cooper grinned. Harry watched Prongs fade away and then turned back to the group.
"So we all believe in magic?" he asked and had to smirk as Burt and Carol nodded their heads slowly. "Alright. Well, in our world, kids come of age at seventeen, which means the Ministry can't watch their magic and make sure that non-magic folk don't discover us."
"Not pretty," Ginny said. "I'm sure you've learnt about the Salem Witch Trials? Well, a lot of those people were underage witches—though most of them were non-magic."
"Let's get back to the story," Carol said after a few minutes of silence.
The Ministry couldn't do anything to him if he chose not to go to school anymore.
"No, but his grandmother can," Harry interrupted himself to add in. "Oh, Teddy'll rue the day I found this."
"Going to Andromeda the second we get out of here?" Ginny asked.
"You bet."
He looked in regret at the note on his bed and grabbed it. He'd included one for his grandmother and his godfather but there was one he'd forgotten.
Vic,
You're going to hate me for this but I've got to do it. I'm sick of it Victorie. Sick of the Slytherins going at me every day because my father was a werewolf.
"Werewolf?" Burt raised his eyebrows.
"Yep," Harry narrowed his eyes at Burt. If he was going to badmouth Remus…"
"I was just curious," Burt said hastily as he noticed Harry's glare. Regardless of what others thought, he was not an idiot and had no plans to get into a fight with a man who could curse him at a second's notice.
Sick of the Ravenclaws asking me questions I couldn't possibly know because my father was the best DADA
"Defense Against the Dark Arts," Ginny elaborated for the three muggles.
professor Hogwarts has ever known, sick of the Gryffindors asking me to make faces for them just because I can, and sick of the professors for doing nothing. I've had it, and I'm sick of being bullied while no one does anything.
Don't bother looking for me, you know I can change my description in an instant. Don't send me a Howler either. I'm 17, I know what I'm doing.
Love from
Teddy
"They are totally dating," Cooper smirked.
"Way behind the times," Harry shook his head. "Almost the whole family realized that. I think James and Bill are the only two who don't know yet."
"Bill's so thick it would take Teddy snogging the lights out of Victorie in front of him before Bill realized they were dating," Ginny shook her head. "I swear. Brilliant man, idiotic in terms of common sense."
He enclosed that into the envelope holding the other two notes and then turned to his cat. Moony had been with him since he could remember, in fact Teddy was half convinced Moony was immortal.
"I remember Harry did a series of spells around Moony just so he'd be convinced the cat was just very good at living when Teddy was thirteen," Ginny shook her head.
"Why?" Burt asked.
"Bad experience with old pets," Harry said simply.
"Come on boy," he whispered, holding out his bag. Moony jumped into it and Teddy grabbed his bowls, a bag of food and some toys.
"Bye Harry," he whispered. "Bye Ginny. Sorry bout this but I don't want you possibly changing my mind."
"So he leaves in the dead of night," Harry grumbled.
He left via the window and walked a few miles before knowing no one would hear him leave. Focusing on Diagon Ally, he reopened his eyes to see the familiar ally. Only no one was around. He hoped Gringotts was still open.
"Yes?" the goblin at the door sneered.
"Are you open?" Teddy asked. The goblin's sneer turned into a smile.
"Goblins?" Carol asked, getting dizzy from all the new information.
"Annoying things, never make deals with them," Harry said. "Although, the fact that the Wizarding world allows a race of creatures who are prone to rebel against the ministry the power to control the economy is extremely stupid."
"You've been hanging around Hermione too much again, love," Ginny said with a smile.
"Why yes young wizard," he nodded. "We are."
He opened up the door but frowned when Teddy went to the transfer desk.
"Yes?" the goblin there asked.
"I'd like to transfer one half of all the gold in Vault 901 to American dollars," Teddy said. "I'd also like a way so that I may access the remainder of said gold at some point in the near future."
The goblin sighed and looked at the total.
"There are seven hundred thousand galleons in Vault 901," he said. "The most recent deposit was made by Mr. Harry Potter on April 31st. For each dollar that is requested, you will be charged five galleons. You will be given a total of 350,000 dollars.
"Three hundred and fifty thousand!" Cooper said in shock.
"And that's half," Burt whistled. Harry must be pretty well off to be able to give his godson 350,000 dollars. Though he was confused about the galleons bit.
For twenty galleons more, you can receive a bag in which you will have ready access to the rest of your money."
Teddy was gob smacked. His godfather had really done all that for him? Here he was, running away and his godfather just made sure his plan could work.
"Stupid!" Harry whacked himself in the head with his hand.
"Thanks!" he said as he paid. He placed the muggle money into his actual wallet while placing the galleon bag into his moneybag. Now all he needed was to find that international apperation point…..ah! There it is.
"Apperation?" Burt asked.
"Disappearing from one place and appearing in another," Ginny told him.
"Feels like you're being sucked through a tube," Harry added on.
He focused on the smallest town he'd read about in the library at Hogwarts. It was in a rare book that no one had read before, not even his father. When he opened his eyes one last time, he found himself in Lima Ohio.
"That's where we live," Carol gasped. So that was how it pertained to them. It was possible that Teddy interacted with them during this story.
"Time to find a place to live," he muttered to himself. To his shock, 350,000 dollars did not get him a lot in terms of a good place to live while on a budget. In the end, he ended up getting an apartment in a rundown area called Lima Heights Adjacent.
"Ugh," Cooper shuddered. "I remember my dad told Blaine and me to never go there."
"Why?" Harry asked.
"It's somewhat violent," Burt told him.
Tomorrow he'd get himself registered for classes.
"Moony, this was a good idea right?" he asked his kitten. "I'm not being an idiot am I?"
"Yes," Ginny and Harry nodded.
Moony looked at him and meowed. Teddy shook his head at the brown tabby. Of course he wasn't being stupid. No way was he going through his last year of Hogwarts dealing with the idiots who whispered behind his back every full moon. Who constantly taunted him because it still took effort in controlling his hair when he got upset at someone.
"On the other hand," Harry narrowed his eyes at the pages. Maybe it was a good thing his godson left.
"I think it's time for bed Moony," he said and yawned. Wow, he must have been really tired. Getting into a bed, his last thought was whether Victorie would be mad at him or not.
"She'll be mad," Ginny predicted.
That answer came with the morning sunrise. Victorie, it seemed, decided to disregard his request for her not to send a Howler.
THEODORE REMUS LUPIN!
"Remus?" Cooper asked.
"Ted's father," Ginny said with a sad smile on her face as she remembered Professor Lupin.
"Who names their kid after one of the two founders of Rome?" Cooper asked. "Isn't that giving a major hint that the kid's a werewolf?"
"Never thought of it like that," Harry said after a few minutes. Cooper could be heard muttering about it being easier to get into Harvard if one actually had brains to back it up.
it hollered in the early morning hour of four o'clock and promptly startling Teddy out of bed. How'd she get one here so fast? Then he noticed the snowy owl sitting on the windowsill. Hedwig II always seemed to get to where she needed to be quickly.
"Second best owl in the world," Harry sighed sadly. He still missed Hedwig after all these years.
"Owls?" Carol asked.
"It's how wizards and witches get mail," Ginny told her and couldn't help but smile at the shocked look.
HOW COULD YOU BE SO IDIOTIC! WE'RE ALL WORRIED THAT YOU'VE BEEN KIDNAPPED! YOU KNOW UNCLE HARRY WAS ABOUT TO SEND OUT THE ENTIRE AUROR
"Wizarding police slash soldiers," Harry quickly explained as he saw the confused looks on the faces of the muggles.
PATROL FOR YOU WHEN HE WENT INTO YOUR ROOM AND SAW THAT YOU WEREN'T THERE? THE ONLY REASON MCGONAGALL ALLOWED FOR YOU TO STAY AT UNCLE HARRY'S WAS SO YOU COULD GAIN YOUR INTERSHIP WITH THE AURORS EASIER! GRANDMUM'S PACING THE BURROW IN FEAR, STATING THAT IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE WE GOT HURT IN ONE OF OUR HARE-BRAINED SKEMES. YOU HAD ONE MORE YEAR TED! ONE!
"Sometimes, one is one too many," Burt said softly.
AT LEAST SEND HEDWIG BACK SO I KNOW YOU GOT THIS! OH, AND DON'T TRY TO SEND A ONE LINER. A NICE LONG NOTE, BUCKO! YOUR BEST FRIEND DESRVES THAT AT LEAST!
In a quieter voice, the howler continued. It was as if Fleur and Bill had been watching as Vic had made the first part and walked away when they thought she'd finished.
Sorry Ted. I wanted to respect your wishes but Mum stated that no boy would ever take a woman seriously if they catered to his every whim. Of course, she thinks we're just friends. She has no idea we're dating
"HA!" Harry grinned. "George owes me three galleons."
"Not yet love," Ginny said sweetly. "You bet that they got together in Teddy's fifth year remember."
, neither does Dad. Personally, I think what you're doing is very brave. Please write though. I've sent you our parchment, you know the planning one.
"Planning parchment?" Cooper raised an eyebrow.
Granddad's excited that you're going to live possibly with muggles though they've all thrown that idea out of the possible search options.
"Why?" Carol asked. "Wouldn't that be the most logical place to hide and therefore to look?"
Ginny and Harry looked chagrined at that. They hadn't thought of looking in the muggle world in Britain, never mind the States.
Love,
Victorie.
Teddy rubbed a hand over his tired face and scrambled for a pen and parchment.
Sorry for this Victorie, and it couldn't have killed you to send your bloody alarm clock of a Howler at a decent hour? Some of us have school to go to later.
"Vic probably forgot about the time difference," Ginny chuckled. "Poor Teddy. He'll be useless in the morning if he doesn't go back to bed soon."
Tell Arthur he's right about the muggles. I can trust you two to keep this a secret, right? I'd rather the others not know about this just yet.
"Why not young man?" Harry asked sternly.
Knowing Harry, he'd fly in on his Firebolt wielding Gryffindor's sword to get me out of whatever trouble he believed me to be in.
"Oh," Harry now looked sheepish. "Well, come on!"
"You are overprotective love," Ginny said. "Not that it's unwarranted, but you are."
I've enclosed a note of apology for McGonagall, figured it was the least she deserved after allowing that special privilege for me. I'm fine though. I've got Moony and enough money to last me through Christmas.
"So odd are we'll see him by Christmas," Ginny said, thankful that Teddy was alright.
Seriously though, try to convince Molly that I'm fine. How's James holding up? Merlin, only his first year and he has to deal with all this drama.
"James?" Burt asked.
"Our eldest child," Harry said with a smile. "James Sirius Potter—named after my father and my godfather."
Try to limit conversations to the parchment okay? The odds I'll actually have muggles over are high and I don't want them thinking I'm odder than I actually am.
"And so he doesn't break the Statue of Secrecy," Harry nodded. "Smart thinking Teddy."
Love from
Teddy
He gave both pieces of parchment to the snowy owl, which flew off. It was then that there was a pounding on the door.
"Who could be at the door?" Ginny gasped, thinking of any possible enemies Ted could have.
"A neighbor coming to complain about the howler?" Harry suggested.
"What now?" Teddy groaned as he got up. He first made sure that his hair was a normal color—not pink like the last time he'd opened a door.
"Poor kid," Cooper winced. Though it would be awesome to be able to do that. Actors wouldn't have to deal with any make-up or CGI if they could change at will.
He still never heard the end of it from the boys in his dorm. Thankfully, it was a light blonde, almost the color of Victorie's hair. His eyes were also a normal color, light green; in honor of his godfather.
"Not a bad combo," Carol smiled. "No one would suspect a thing."
"Coming!" he shouted as the pounding on the door continued. He looked down and groaned when he realized that he was only wearing a pair of boxers.
"Five bucks says an attractive female's going to be behind that door," Cooper said with a smirk.
Oh well. It was four in the bloody morning! What did the person behind the door expect? For him to be fully dressed and ready to great the day?
"Burt wakes up at three," Carol said and Ginny winced. Harry refused to wake up any later than six.
"Why?" Harry looked stunned.
"My step-son sleeps like a log," Burt said. "Waking Finn up by five in the morning means I've got to be up at three."
"Ugh," Harry shuddered.
"Yes?" he asked and had to physically stop his jaw from hitting the floor as he saw the attractive, tanned brunette girl standing right in front of him.
"Told ya," Cooper smirked.
"What in the world gives you the right to make all that noise at four in the morning, Goldie?" she asked, raising an eyebrow.
"And that would be Santana," Carol said, having heard a lot about her from Finn.
"That's the end of the chapter," Harry said. "Who wants to read next?"
"I'll read, if no one minds," Burt said. No one did, and so Harry handed Burt the stack of papers.