Title: 20 Random Facts about Teddy Remus Lupin

Author: Elenorecanard
Rating:PG
Warning(s): None
Word Count: 1,143.
Disclaimer: Unfortunately, Teddy doesn't belong to me. I wish he did, though.
Author's Note(s): 20 facts about our favorite multicolored werewolf cub, in no particular order. Written for the Harry Potter Random Facts Fest at InsaneJournal. Look for user name julialinnea. I know this is an odd format, but it was a lot of fun to write. There is a list of several more fact lists about pretty much any HP character you could want. Go check it out!

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1. Teddy's earliest memory is of a dream he had of his parents. His mother was holding a baby with blue hair and kissing his father goodbye. Then she handed the baby to his Gran and followed him. The fact that the baby's hair was blue, or that Gran turned into an owl didn't tip him off that it was a dream, because Teddy is a wizard, and that sort of thing is normal. He knew it was a dream because his parents came back. Not even magic can do that.

2. When Kingsley first took office, he saw to it that a fund was started for the families of those who died in battle. Teddy receives benefits for both his mother and his father, but he doesn't touch any of it. He leaves it in his vault so if he ever has children, they'll be taken care of if he can't be around for some reason.

3. When Teddy finishes Hogwarts, he is offered places in the Auror department and the Department of Mysteries, because of the combination of his marks and his abilities. He's training to be a Healer instead.

4. Teddy is terrified to go to school. He knows his ability was rare. Even at eleven, he's seen how grown-ups gawk when they see hiss hair change. He will already stand out because of his parents and his Godfather. He doesn't want to stand out because he can make his nose look like a pigs, or because when he's embarrassed, his hair goes a color Harry refers to as "Weasley Red."

5. Teddy inherits the Map the day before Harry and Gran take him to King's Cross Station. Harry tells him all about Messers Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs. Then he makes Teddy promise not to tell Gran where he got it, should she ever find it. He tries to give it to James when he starts school too, but Harry says Teddy should keep it for his own kids to have someday. Plus, Ginny would go spare if she knew the kids had it.

6. The boys in Teddy's year think he's gay. He's not. He just doesn't feel that they need to know about his personal life. Therefore, he doesn't share the fact that he's a virgin while they're all passing around Firewhiskey that they smuggled in, and sharing their recent conquests.

7. He's had exactly three girlfriends: Emily Partridge, Mina Williams and Victoire Weasley. Emily and Mina were great, but he loves Victoire.

8. Emily Partridge also happens to be his first kiss. She is also the first and only girl he's been caught snogging in a supposedly abandoned classroom. How are they supposed to know Professor Longbottom uses the room to teach Advanced Herbelogical Theory?

9. Teddy loves his grandmother with all his heart, but at the age of fifteen, there's no way he's going to ask her advice about girls. He hopes her feelings aren't hurt when he floos Harry.

10. Harry's advice becomes invaluable in many areas, and Teddy goes to his godfather whenever there is a question or problem he wishes he could ask his father about.

11. Teddy loves to fly. He's probably the best flier in his year. He doesn't like to play Quidditch though. This drives the captain and Professor McGonnagal absolutely mad.

12. Teddy usually keeps his hair bright blue, although, until he's about sixteen, it's fairly easy to tell his mood by his hair color. He almost never wears it brown, because, of the three photos he has of his parents, there's only one when his mother's hair is brown, and in that photo she's alone. It's also the only charmed photo in which her hair doesn't change color. Gran won't explain it beyond saying the year before he was born was a tough one for his mother.

13. In fact, Teddy has a picture of his parents in his wallet. His mother's hair is the brightest pink he's ever seen, and his father is laughing. They're both playing with a small, blue haired baby. It isn't charmed, so his parents don't wave at him or blink. They just stand very close to each other. They never walk out of the picture.

14. Everything Teddy knows about the war now known as Voldemort's Second War, he learned at school. The Potters and the Weasleys don't discuss it beyond telling him about his parents, and neither does Gran. He doesn't know how Harry managed to survive the Killing Curse, and he doesn't know what Harry, Ron and Hermione did for a year while they were 'on the run' as Hogwarts, A History says. He does know that he's glad he missed most of it.

15. When Gran calls Teddy to the fireplace, three days after his twelfth birthday, and bundles him into the floo and off to the Potters mumbling something about 'His Godfather' needing to speak with him, he's confused to say the least. When he returns home a few hours later, he is armed with spells and charms he didn't know existed, and that he's fairly sure he'd get into a fair amount of trouble for needing at school, and not just from Professors Longbottom and McGonnagal. Even if it is the responsible thing to do.

16. For as long as he can remember, Gran has called him Teddy Bear. Because of this, he tried to change his name to Jonathon when he was six. He insisted everyone call him Jon for days, until Gran showed him a picture and told him about his Grandpa Ted. Then Teddy was Teddy again.

17. Teddy loves Muggle churches. He could walk through churches and stare at the windows for hours at a time. He thinks it's amazing that Muggles could make huge, colored windows with out magic. He also loves to sit at the back of the chapel during services. The ritual fascinates him.

18. The first time Teddy does magic not related to his Morphing, he is four. Gran won't let him have a biscuit before bed, so he levitates it off the highest shelf. When Gran comes into the kitchen and catches him, he's so startled the tin explodes in a shower of crumbs.

19. Teddy's favorite times are the times he spends with Harry and Ginny and their kids, or with the rest of the Weasleys. He loves the activity and the noise. When he tells Harry and Ginny this, Ginny tells him he's a nutter. Harry just smiles quietly.

20. Last night Teddy paid a visit to Bill Weasley. Right now, he's standing in front of Victoire's door, one hundred percent positive that her neighbor's must hear his heart pounding, so he takes a deep breath and checks one more time to make sure the ring is in his pocket and knocks on the door.