Electric Blue
A/N: This is completely different from most things I write so...yeah. I've been working on it for a while, since I wanted it to be perfect. However, it was rather difficult to nail down characters since no one knows who Teddy is for sure, so I took my own outlook on him. I hope you enjoy. Review!
Disclaimer: Only thing I own are my original characters, nothing worth suing over.
Chapter One: Trains, Family, and New Friends
Identity…it has always been considered incredibly important in this world. Some people feel like gallivanting off to some random country for a couple years to try to find themselves. Some even go to such lengths as counseling just to recognize who they were the entire time. Marriages are destroyed because someone doesn't 'know who they are anymore'. Identity and the act of discovering it has been a topic of study since the beginning of time. Thus, the tale of four young people and how they discovered their different identities. It lasted a lengthy period of time, so don't expect this story to go by quickly. After all, the hardest thing to find in this world it seems, is yourself.
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It all began on a crisp August morning. Standing on platform nine and three-quarters was a man with unruly black hair, an older woman, and a boy with electric blue hair.
The boy was Theodore, preferably Teddy, Lupin. He stood next to his grandmother and godfather looking eagerly away from them and at the scarlet train.
"Are you even listening?" Asked his grandmother sharply pausing from her previous rant about misbehaving at school and the repercussions of them.
"Yeah, yeah." Teddy replied still staring at the train longing to leave his family and hop aboard into an adventure. Not that he didn't love his family to pieces it was just…for too long had he been living a dull and dreary life! The closest he ever got to excitement was his grandmother's old books and his godfather's stories. Both of which leaving him feeling bored of his humdrum existence, Hogwarts would bring the excitement he needed.
"Let him go Andromeda, he has his head in the clouds anyways." Smiled his godfather ruffling Teddy's hair proudly. "Don't forget to write or I'll send a howler."
"I'll try to remember." Teddy grinned widely, he noticed tears in his grandmother's eyes, "Love you gran." He told her kissing her on the cheek then scampered away.
"Just try to stay out of trouble!" Called his grandmother. Teddy rolled his eyes,
"I'll try!" He replied with a grin stepping onto the train and waving goodbye a final time. He was so thrilled to be on the train…to be on his way to adventure, he nearly ran into someone in front of him
"What's your hurry?" Asked the someone in front of him. He scanned the small curly haired boy, the first thing Teddy noticed where the boy's large blue eyes and then his scattered freckles across his round face.
"I dunno." Shrugged Teddy searching for a compartment as he walked, only to find people obviously much older than himself. Deciding that that would be awkward he kept on searching for one that was empty.
"I like your hair, did you dye it that color?" The boy asked curiously following Teddy.
"Nah, it's natural." Teddy replied smoothly, he got asked a lot about his looks thus the reply was always rather simple and often repeated. He received an odd look from the boy but he ignored it, he usually received strange looks that was another thing he was used to. At last! He thought walking up to a compartment that contained only a girl who looked about his age bouncing a tennis ball against the opposite wall. "Excuse me, mind if I…er…we sit with you?" Teddy asked. He noticed first her hair, a bright shade of yellow almost completely gold. Then he noticed her skin was a dark tan yet her eyes were light blue, such a strange combination.
"Sure." The girl said absently she didn't even bother to look away from the ball.
"I'm Teddy by the way." Teddy said sitting next to her, a bit frightened he'd be smacked in the head with the tennis ball.
"I'm Milo." Said the boy sitting opposite of Teddy, also watching the ball with weary eyes.
"Cori." She replied in a calm voice, "Cori Jackson." Milo reached up and caught the ball,
"You're gonna hit someone!" He asked. Cori looked at him, her face turning a bright shade of red. Milo passed the ball to Teddy who barely caught it before it hit the floor, he hated sports.
"I'm sorry…I was practicing…" She said in a quiet voice, "I heard that if you're good enough you can get on the Quidditch team in your first year."
"Only one person has ever done that in an entire century!" Exclaimed Milo, his eyes lighting up as he said this, it seemed very clear that Milo enjoyed Quidditch.
"Who was that?" Teddy asked them; instead of a reply, he received two stares.
"Are you a muggle-born or something?" Asked Milo in shock, "Everyone knows that Harry Potter was the youngest seeker since…well, since forever!"
"Oh, really?" Teddy was shocked and a little upset that his godfather didn't tell him such important information about himself.
"Yeah, he's almost as good as Oliver Wood." Exclaimed Milo pulling out his Quidditch Stars of the 21stCentury cards and showed Teddy a picture of Harry holding a broom. "He wasn't technically a 'star of the 21st century'," Milo commented, "But this is a rare card, part of the 'Prodigies of the Game Collection'." Teddy stared at the waving picture of a probably eighteen-year-old version of his godfather.
"Ginny Potter was one of the best female players before she retired of course," Cori said pointing at one of Milo's cards.
"Yeah, she had to because she was pregnant." Teddy said nonchalantly as he actually knew this because he remembered how angry Ginny was about it throughout her pregnancy she once threatened to bash Harry over the head with her broom since she had no use for it and it was his fault she had gotten into that mess.
"Makes no sense if you ask me," Milo said organizing his trading cards so that Ginny's was on top, smiling and waving upon her broom. "Why didn't she just have the baby then continue playing?"
"Being a parent was more important to her than Quidditch." Cori replied, "Duh."
Teddy agreed, Ginny loved James so much she couldn't leave him alone for more than ten minutes during his first three months of life.
"Well I would've played again." Milo shifted his cards around then shoving them into his pockets.
"You're also a boy!" Exclaimed Cori with an eye roll, "You'll never have to deal with that problem." Milo's face proceeded to turn a scarlet red as the door to the compartment slid open,
"Hello there," A tall boy stood in the opening, dark brown hair falling in his dark brown eyes. "Might I sit here?"
"Go ahead," Teddy said wanting to change the subject into one he knew a little more about.
"I'm Cameron by the way," He said sitting next to Milo.
"I'm Teddy, that's Cori and Milo." Teddy introduced them, not wanting to waste time with many introductions.
"So what houses do you suspect you'll be in?" Cameron asked the group.
"I dunno," Cori started, "Probably the one with the best Quidditch team."
"That depends whose on it." Milo pointed out, "I kind of want the hat to tell me, since I'm not so sure where I belong."
"Well sometimes the house of choice comes from those close to you, but…my family's been all over the map." Teddy said with a smile, "My gran was in Slytherin I think, my mum in Hufflepuff, my dad in Gryffindor." He shrugged absently,
"I want to be in Gryffindor." Said Cameron looking past Teddy and out the window.
"Why's that?" Asked Teddy wondering if Cameron's opinion would make him more interested in Gryffindor than the other houses.
"Ravenclaw is smart but they can be snobbish, Slytherin is evil, and Hufflepuff is a house full of idiots." Cameron replied.
"Well my gran isn't evil, and she was in Slytherin, I'm very sure my mum wasn't an idiot, and I know of someone back in my godfather's time who was quite the idiot and he was in Gryffindor." Teddy said in an as a matter of fact voice.
"They are just an exception to the rule." Cameron replied still battling for his point. Milo and Cori looked at Teddy and Cameron as if they were boxers in a ring preparing for round two of a match.
"What rule?" Asked Teddy remaining calm, this obviously exasperating Cameron.
"Each house was based off of the four founders, each founder with a personality trait taken after each house. That is what the hat takes after." He explained, "Slytherin was a sneaky traitor who wanted to build his own school in turn putting a basilisk in Hogwarts, Ravenclaw was brainy but from a rather rich family she was a snob through and through, Hufflepuff may have been loyal to Hogwarts but she was also rather stupid."
"Why do you say Hufflepuff was stupid?" Asked Teddy although his face remained calm his hair beginning to change from electric blue to a baby blue.
"Um…Teddy…" Cori said looking at his hair.
"Sh!" Milo shushed Cori, as he was rather interested in the battle of wits. However, Cameron looked rather stumped at the question. Teddy's hair returned to electric blue and a smirk appeared on his face. The compartment was silent for a few moments before they heard someone else slide open the door,
"Anything off the trolley, dears?" Asked a woman's voice, the group turned,
"Yeah," Milo started towards her, "I'll take a Cauldron Cake and a chocolate frog, please." He handed her a few coins.
"No thanks." Cori said looking at the floor.
"Me neither." Cameron and Teddy said at the same time. They eyed each other menacingly; they both could tell that this would be the start of a wonderful enemy-ship.
Trailing the trolley was a Ravenclaw prefect who told the compartment that they had better get on their robes, as they'd be reaching Hogwarts soon.
"I'll just…" Cori looked at the boys and then at the door, "Um…I guess the bathroom is down the way." She got to her feet and headed down the hallway out of the boy's sight.
Without a word each of them began changing their clothes, Teddy felt a rush of excitement. They were finally nearing school! He smiled despite himself as he found his plain black robes; he was told that once he was sorted they would magically change to represent the house colors. Once he had thrown on the baggy robes, his gran always made him buy something a little big in case it shrunk or he went through an unexpected growth spurt, he felt something in his waist pocket. He shoved his hands in his pockets and pulled out a golden locket.
"What's this?" Teddy whispered clicking it open. When it popped open, he found it to be a picture of a woman with vivid pink hair and a man with sandy blonde hair smiling and waving and blowing kisses at the camera. Teddy paused, he recognized his parents just never this…happy, so obviously in love. He clicked it shut and pulled it over his head, now fully prepared for the sorting, for Hogwarts, and for his new life in general