A/N: This is a selection of letters written by each of my Next Generation characters during their time at Hogwarts - one chapter per character, and one letter for each of their years at school.

I wrote this just for fun, and to help develop my characters. It links in with my other fics, so if you've read those, you'll be able to recognise a lot of the incidents referred to in the letters. If you haven't read them, some references might be a bit mysterious, but hopefully you'll start to build up a picture anyway!

All ages, houses, etc. are part of my headcanon, which I've been working with for a long time now. It doesn't fit with recently released information, but is canon-compliant with the original books. See my profile for more detailed information about my world!

Chapter 1 - The Letters of Edward Remus Lupin

September 2009 ~ First Year

Dear Gran,

I'm in Gryffindor! You don't mind, do you? Because we knew I wasn't going to be in Slytherin, right?

It's so cool here! I've made friends with a boy called Guy and we've been trying to find all the secret passages. We haven't found any yet though. I'm going to ask Harry again at Christmas. Lessons are OK, I suppose. I had my first flying lesson today, but it was a bit boring because I already know how to fly.

People keep asking me if it's true that Harry Potter's my godfather. It was funny at first but now it's really boring.

I wish we could take Care of Magical Creatures in first year. I went to see Hagrid, and he showed me the unicorns that he's using for a fourth year lesson. I wish he was still going to be teaching in my third year, but he says he's definitely retiring next year. I suppose he is quite old. But he showed me the salamanders he's got too, which were really cool. Can I have a salamander for my birthday?

Lots of love,

Teddy

October 2010 ~ Second Year

Dear Harry, Ginny, James, Albus and Lily,

Second year's going OK. I've been going down to Hagrid's pretty much every evening because one of the unicorns is going to have a baby. He's keeping her up near his house, and he says he'll send a message when it's going to happen and I can come and watch. I hope it isn't in the night, because it'll make it a bit more difficult. Actually, it happening during lessons would be the most difficult I suppose. But watching a baby unicorn being born is worth missing a couple of lessons for, right?

I'm really glad Hagrid's still living here, even though he's not teaching any more. Going down and helping him with the animals is the best part of school. Persis and Guy are going to come with me for the unicorn being born. They really like Hagrid too.

He always asks about you all, and how you are. He wants to know when you're coming to visit him. When are you coming up, Harry? Are you giving any more Defence talks this year? I'd be allowed to come to them now I'm a second year. DADA is my favourite subject I think, seeing as I can't take Care of Magical Creatures yet. Charms is cool too, but they won't give me extra marks for changing my hair, even though that would be really advanced magic for anyone else. Or maybe it's more Transfiguration than Charms? But they don't give me extra marks in that either.

Thanks a lot for the broom! It's great! Me and Persis and Guy go flying all the time now. I don't think I'm going to get onto the Gryffindor team like you two though. Persis tried out this year but she didn't get in, and she's loads better than me. It's still fun just to be able to fly around though.

Love Teddy.

September 2011 ~ Third Year

Dear Harry, Ginny and the Brats.

I'm doing Care of Magical Creatures! Finally! It's not the same as if Hagrid was still teaching - and I know you say his lessons were a bit weird, but I think they sound awesome! Still, we're doing some really cool stuff. I kind of hoped we might do dragons at some point, but Professor Marchbanks says we can't. I suggested that we could have a field trip to a dragon reservation, and she got a bit annoyed with me and asked if I knew how dangerous dragons are. Hey, Ginny, do you think Charlie would let me come and help out in Romania in the holidays? I reckon I could be pretty useful these days. Could you maybe ask him?

Persis got on the Quidditch team this year which is pretty cool. She's a Chaser like you Ginny. So she's always off practising and we don't see so much of her.

Oh yeah, and Victoire is being really annoying. I mean, she doesn't seem to realise that the fact that I'm two years above her means we can't really hang around together. It's not like she hasn't got any friends in her own year - she's got loads of them and they're all really loud and weird. But she's always trying to talk to me, and tag along with what me and Guy and Persis are doing. You know how Guy and Persis call her Teddy's Little Lamb? Well now everyone's started using that. People keep singing it at me, only instead of saying 'fleece as white as snow' they say 'hair as red as flame.' It's really embarrassing, but I don't know what to do about it. She won't listen to me!

Anyway, apart from that, it's all good here. Hope you're all recovering after the accident with the shed roof. Trust you to do something like that, Jamie!

Love Teddy

P.S. You know that thing I was asking you about Harry? I won't write what it is here in case James is reading, but I was kind of hoping you might have changed your mind. It would be really useful. And after all, my dad helped to make it too! Please?

May 2013 ~ Fourth Year

Dear Gran,

Well, I'm really sorry I haven't written yet this term. Hope you're OK, and that your cough's better.

I had a bit of an accident with an animal I was helping Hagrid with, but don't worry, I'm fine. It was a graphorn, and I broke my arm and got a few nasty cuts and was in the hospital wing for a few days, but I'm out now. You might hear about it from someone else, because I expect Victoire's gone and told everyone, so I hope you haven't heard already and started worrying. It wasn't really serious.

Not sure I've really got any more news - I've been in the hospital wing for the last few days. I've got exams starting soon, but I did pretty well on the DADA practise test we did the other day, and my marks in Potions have been getting better, so I think I should be OK.

Can you tell Harry and everyone what happened, and that I'm OK? Then I don't have to write more letters.

Love,

Teddy.

February 2014 ~ Fifth Year

Dear Charlie,

Thanks for writing. That sounds amazing! I'm not sure what Gran'll say about it, but I think Harry and Ginny will be OK with it, and they can probably talk her round. So, Easter holidays, right? The only problem might be that they'll say I should be working for OWLs then, but hopefully I can persuade them that it'll be really useful for Care of Magical Creatures. And I'm sure there's loads of stuff I can learn from a trip to Romania!

So what would we be doing? You only said 'the latest project.' What is the project? Would I be able to actually work with the dragons? I've never really had any experience with dragons, but I've read loads of books, and I've met loads of things like hippogriffs, so I do know about big animals. I've even helped out with graphorns once.

That's completely OK about not paying me. I'd pay to be there, to be honest! Thanks so much for this, I really hope I can persuade them. Could you put in a good word for me with Harry and Ginny? Like, tell them how much you think I can learn from it?

Thanks again.

Teddy.

November 2014 ~ Sixth Year

Dear Lily,

Thanks for your letter, it was great to get it! Well done for writing that much all by yourself! James and Albus have never written to me.

I'm glad you had fun at your birthday. Wow, you're getting big-seven years old! You'll be at Hogwarts before you know it! That's a shame about Hugo though. I hope he wasn't too sick. How much cake did he eat?

You tell Jamie from me that he has to let you join in when they play Quidditch, or I'll charm his broomstick so it won't come down from the ceiling when I come home.

See you at Christmas!

Lots of love,

Teddy.

June 2016 ~ Seventh Year

Dear Harry, Ginny, etc.

Well, things are winding down towards NEWTs now. I say winding down, actually it's all all completely mad and stressful, so this letter'll probably be short.

I've got my first exam next week, and my last one in three weeks, and then I'm done. I'll be leaving Hogwarts. In some ways I can't wait to finish these exams, but then once I am finished, I've finished school, and I don't really want to. It just feels a bit weird. I can't believe it's actually almost over. I don't know what to do next. Get a job I suppose, but I don't know what.

I hope you're not expecting amazing results. I have a feeling I'm not going to do that well-I haven't worked hard enough. I don't think I'll fail, but you never know. I seem to have used up all my energy, and I feel like the more studying I do, the less I'm learning. Hopefully I've already learned enough to get by, because revision doesn't seem to be getting me anywhere any more.

Victoire's working about twice as hard as I am of course, even though she's only doing OWLs. But she's always been the hard-working one.

Hope you're all doing OK. All ready for Hogwarts next year, Jamie? You'll be getting your wand soon, so at least the world'll be a little bit safer for a while-no magic allowed out of school until you're seventeen!

That's fine, Al-you can borrow books off the little brown bookcase in my room if you want. The bottom shelf's all old school books, so a bit boring, but there's some better ones on the other shelves. And don't worry, Harry and Ginny-there's nothing there he shouldn't be reading! Just stay away from the shelf above my bed, OK? That goes for you too, Jamie. Remember what I did to your broom last year.

I'm going to go and answer your letter now, Lily, as you're the only brat who bothers to write your own letters to me. I'll send it by the same owl. So the other letter is for Lily's eyes only.

Suppose I should go and revise Transfiguration now...

Love,

Teddy.

P.S. Hagrid sends his love to you all. So does Neville. I mean Professor Longbottom.