My first Harry Potter Fan fiction, I've finally gotten around to doing it. Hope you like it.
Eleven year old Teddy Lupin was at platform nine and three quarters, excited for his first year at Hogwarts. His Grandmother and Godfather were there to see him off. He hugged his Grandmother, who wished him luck, then turned to his Godfather. Harry Potter hugged the boy.
"Are you nervous?" Harry asks. Teddy shakes his head and says "No, I'm too excited to be nervous."
"You're probably one of the few who aren't." Harry says. "You mean you're not worried about which house you'll be in?" Once again Teddy shakes his head, "It doesn't matter what house I'm in." He says.
"And you're probably one of the few who think that too." Harry says, smiling. "But what house do you want to be in?"
At that question Teddy looks over to his Grandmother nervously, he'd told her which house he wanted to be in, but he wasn't so sure that Harry would be so accepting of it. Harry saw the hesitation to answer the question, so he says "You don't have to tell me if you don't want to. But I'm guessing, by the look on your face, that it's not Gryffindor."
Teddy smiles apologetically and Harry says, "It's fine, you don't have to be in Gryffindor, you can be in whatever house you want." Teddy smiles and hugs Harry as the whistle on the train blows. He rushes to get on, and then waves goodbye. Once the train starts to leave he goes to find a place to sit.
He finds a compartment with three other kids his age. "Can I join you?" He asks. The kids shrug and make room for him, he smiles and sits down. Soon they all start talking about what houses they wanted to be in.
"I'm definitely going to be in Gryffindor," one of the boys says, "It's the only good house out there, Hufflepuff's okay too, I guess, and Ravenclaw's not bad, just as long as I'm not in Slytherin, I'm happy."
"That's just your opinion about the houses," Teddy says, "No house is better or worse then any of the others."
"From what I've heard about the houses I have to say that Hufflepuff actually sounds the best." The other boy says. "But I'm not sure; my parents are both muggles, so I don't know much about Hogwarts at all."
"That's okay, I'm a halfa," The first boy says, He looks to Teddy and the girl and asks "What about you two?" The girl looks up and says "I'm actually pure-blood…mostly." She see's the first boy glaring at her and she rolls her eyes, "There's nothing wrong with being pure-blood, my fathers whole family is pure-bloods, but they're all blood traitors. My mom would be pure-blood except she's part veela."
Teddy looks at the girl, shocked "You're Victoire Weasley?" The girl looks at him, "Yes, how did you know?" Teddy smiles and says "I've heard about you."
"Looks like I'm at a disadvantage. You know who I am, but what about you? What's your family like?" Victoire asks. Teddy looks a little nervous at the question, but he answers, "My mother is half blood, her father is a muggle, but her mother is a pure-blood. I'm not sure about my father though."
"Why do you have blue hair?" The muggle born asks. "I'm a metamorphagus," Teddy answers, "I can change my appearance whenever I want, my mom was one too." Victorie figured it out after that.
"You must be Teddy Lupin then." She exclaims, "My father often talks about your parents. He highly respects your father." Teddy and Victorie smile at each other while the other boys just keep talking.
Eventually they got to the school. Time went by quickly for Teddy, for it felt like only a moment before they were in the great hall getting sorted. When they called Teddy's name he went and sat down on the stool. The sorting hat took a minute to figure it out and Teddy could hear him talking about different things, but he really didn't care what the sorting hat was saying, just as long as he ended up where he wanted to be. Finally the hat calls out his house.
"SLYTHERIN." The hat exclaims for the whole hall to hear. Teddy grins and looks over at Vicky, who could see that he was where he wanted to be, so she smiled back. Teddy goes and sits down by the other Slytherin's, taking note of the glares he got from the other tables as he sat.
After dinner the Slytherin's go to their common room and Teddy gets to know the other first years. They seem nice enough. Not all of them were pure-blood, but they all had something to prove to the world, just like he did.
Over the next few days Teddy could already tell that there would be a lot of judgment and assumptions made. Most of the teachers played favoritism to the Gryffindor's and treated all the Slytherin's unfairly. The only student that didn't seem to hate him for being in Slytherin was Vicky. She quickly became his best friend. He had friends in his house, but there were also people who didn't think he belonged there.
One of the fifth year boys, a prefect, particularly didn't like Teddy, and he didn't bother hiding his dislike. Teddy didn't mind though, he didn't want to be in Slytherin so that he would be popular.
But Vicky wanted to know why he did want to be in Slytherin.
"Hey, Teddy?" She asks him one day, "Why did you want to be in Slytherin? I'd thought that you would despise the thought of being in that house."
"That's because you, like everyone else, is thinking of how much time I spend with the Potter's and the Weasley's. My grandmother, and all of her family, was in Slytherin. My grandmother isn't a bad person. A lot of people seem to think that just because you're in Slytherin means that you're evil, I just want to prove them wrong. My grandmother says that that is a very Slytherin way of thinking." Teddy explains.
A few weeks later Teddy was just walking down the halls with Vicky when they saw a couple of third year boys picking on a first year. Teddy was quick to notice that the third years were Gryffindors and the first year was Slytherin. Teddy stepped in, "Leave him alone, what did he do to you?" The Gryffindor's looked surprised that someone was stepping in. One boy answers, "It's just your house, if you were in any other house, it would be fine."
"Well, what's wrong with being a Slytherin?" the bold boy asks. The third years all look at each other, then one answers "That's a joke, right? Slytherin's bring out dark wizards, like you-know-who. While Gryffindor's have people like Dumbledore and Harry Potter."
"You want to know who else was in Slytherin?" Teddy asks, "Severus Snape, a man who was so brave that he risked his life every day to be a spy for Dumbledore."
The third years didn't know how to respond to that, finally one of them grabs Teddy angrily and is about to hit him when a voice calls out, "What do you think you're doing?"
Everyone turns to see the Slytherin Prefect there. The boy who held Teddy pushes him to the ground and left, with the others following him. The prefect walks over to Teddy and says "That was a pretty cool thing you did. I'm sorry about how I've been treating you, I just didn't think you belonged in Slytherin, I mean, your parents were in Hufflepuff and Gryffindor. You've now proved me wrong."
"Thanks, I guess," Teddy says, accepting the hand. "But how?"
"You defended my little brother, Raul, that sort of gives you bonus points." The prefect says, moving to stand by his brother. Raul smirks at Teddy and says "Thanks for helping me and all, but I could have totally handled it by myself."
"Yeah, sure you could have." Teddy says sarcastically while Vicky laughs and Raul smiles.
"Come on boys; let's find someplace else to hang out, rather then in the middle of a depressing hallway." Vicky suggests.
Teddy and Raul readily agree and follow Victoire out to spend the rest of the day in the warm weather.
I need to learn how to end these chapters better, but hope you enjoyed it anyways. I will have more chapters up soonish. Reviews are very much appreciated.