Room of requirement, 7th floor,
Hogwarts School of Witch Craft and Wizardry.
May 2, 2012.
It was around 2 o'clock on May 2nd 2012, and the Room of Requirement was consciously being used by a student for the first time in almost ten years.
The room was colored softly in green and blue, lit up by torch lights along the walls of the room. There were comfortable sofas and arm chairs along the room. Fuzzy rugs on the floor. Coffee tables were placed by the sofas.
A 14-year-old boy with blond hair with green tips and Gryffindor colored school robes, Teddy Lupin ,where sitting in one of the armchairs, with his feet on the coffee table in front of it and reading a book.
To Teddy's big surprise the door to the room opened.
A head of blond hair peaked in, spotted him and pulled back outside again.
"Sorry!" a small voice said scared.
"Vicky?" Teddy recognized the long flowing hair as she retraced.
"It's okay you can come in. Just close the door quickly!"
Victorie Weasley. Eleven year old, Ravenclaw first year, with waist long, almost patina blond hair, slipped in and closed the door behind her.
"Teddy?" She looked at him surprised.
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to intrude, I figured it would be empty in here. Not many people know where to find it any more… Or that it was ever restored."
Her voice died down as she realized she was rambling.
"It's okay. I was kind of thinking the same thing." He smiled at her.
"So why are you here and not downstairs taking part in the celebrations?" She asked trying to sound casual and not really succeeding as she dropped down in one of the sofas.
The sofa she sat down in was to the left of Teddy and facing the long side of the coffee table that Teddy's arm chair was facing the short side of.
"I don't like the way they celebrate this holiday here." he said with a sigh.
"I mean at home it was fine, everyone gets a bit depressed and we have a special dinner and al but here… it's like we have to be happy and cheerful. And everyone expects me to love it. Most teachers give me this pitying look as well. Like they want to make sure I'm having fun and don't think of the bad thing that happened. And at the same time they want us to celebrate all the same effing things." He took a deep breath to prevent himself from yelling.
Victorie had skidded along the sofa and was now sitting by the edge next to him and giving him a pitying look.
He was suppressed that he wasn't mad at her for it.
It wasn't the kind the teachers gave him. It was more of a sympathetic look really.
She got where he was coming from.
He smiled at her again.
"So how about you? Why are you here and not partying with your friends?"
She sighed and stood back up.
She walked behind the sofa and picked up her bag that she dropped behind it before sitting down. She turned the bag upside down and an assortment of wrapped boxes fell out.
To Teddy's extreme surprise several of them looked too big to fit in to the bag on their own, no way all of them would fit.
"How did you expand your bag?" He asked in awe. "You're a first year!"
She gave him a cocky grin as an answer.
"It took me all of last term to figure it out. But well I'm excellent at charms"
"And modest, don't forget your vast modesty!" He joked.
"Of course!" She laughed.
"So what's with the packages?" he waved at ha pile of wrapped boxes.
"Today's my birthday" she said with a sigh. He blushed, he should have known that. He's known Vicky her whole life, she's even named Victorie after the victory of the war.
"I hate it. That it has to be this day. At home, like you said, everyone is a bit sad on this day. My parents try to give me a happy morning but it always turns in to this depressing dinner latter on. And then we celebrate it properly a week later." She dropped back down in to the sofa, next to the presents.
"My birthday always get looked past because of this stupid war. It's been 14 years and it still bugs the crap out of me."
"Well if it makes you any happier, I'd love to celebrate your birthday with you rather that celebrate the death of my family!" Teddy told her with a serious looks on his face.
"Really?" She gave him a hesitant smile.
He nodded.
"Well great!" She bounced a little on the sofa and grabbed one of the packages and tossed it at him. "Here you can help me open my presents then!"
The package Teddy had first opened had turned out to be from her aunt Gabrielle, who was a very extravagant girly person and loved frilly things.
The present had been a pink tulle dress. Vicky had started laughing so much that she almost fell of the sofa when Teddy pulled it out of the box and looked at it with a terrified look on his face.
She then proceeded with trying to convince him to try it on which led to the box falling out of Teddy's lap and a card to fall open on to the floor.
The card exploded in to a rain of flowers falling down on them, along with a voice loudly singing happy birthday in French for 20 minutes before fading away.
The rest of the presents were not quite as exploding.
She got books, clothes, prank candy from her uncle George, lots of normal candy and some galleons from her grandparents.
They ate the candy she had been given. Chased around some of the chocolate frogs that got lose in the room for a while. And spent an hour devouring an apple pie (her favorite) that her grandmother Molly had sent her.
They played several games that the room provided them with and as the clock turned 9 and the party down in the great hall would be ending and the student's would all be heading to the dorms: Teddy and Vicky also decided to pack up as to hopefully not get caught with not being present at the feast.
Teddy helped Victorie dump what was left of her presents in her bag and tried tiding up a little, even though the room was still scattered with flowers from Gabrielle's birthday card and they still could not get a hold of three of the chocolate frogs who hid up in the ceiling beams and the rug was scorched from when they played exploding snap on it.
"Thanks, this is probably the first time I've had real fun on my actual birthday!" Victorie thanked as she tried to stop herself from laughing from Teddy dumping an armful of flowers over her as she had been trying to brush up the crumbs left from the pie.
"No problem. This was probably the most fun I've ever had on May second in my entire life as well" she smiled and helped her up.
They went separate ways as soon as they got outside the door to get as quickly as possible to bed.
Both made their way back without getting caught in the empty hallways.
