Post-Hogwarts
Teddy and Victoire Lupin
March 24th 2025
"I'm pregnant." was all Victoire said as she came back from the bathroom.
Teddy looked up from his paper. "Really? Great!"
"What about my dad?" she complained. William Weasley was extraordinarily protective of his two daughters.
"Ah." Teddy said. He had been so ecstatic, he had completely forgotten about that.
"Have fun." she smirked, and skipped out of the room.
May 13th 2025
"Teddy."
"Toire?" Teddy rolled over, rubbing his eyes.
"Can you get me a tub of icing with mayonnaise, pickles, mustard and tomato soup."
Teddy sighed, and promptly got out of bed. This was his wife's favourite midnight snack currently, but at least he didn't have to go to the store. Last week he had bought mega-packs of the stuff. She inevitably woke up every night and demanded a mixture of all of it. The worst had been last week when she made him TRY it. Teddy shuddered at the memory.
July 9th 2025
"Names." Victoire said abruptly.
"Wha?" Teddy said.
Victoire rolled her eyes. "Baby names. For this little sucker."
"Remus for a boy, Dora for a girl?" Teddy suggested.
"Um, Teddy?" Victoire said in a small voice. "I think naming the baby after famous people who died in the war would put pressure on the kid. Look at the Potter cousins."
"You're right. I like Kieran for a boy, Ella for a girl as well." Teddy said.
"I'm not too fond of Ella. I like Nicola." Victoire said. "Kieran's nice though. How about Kieran Remus for a boy and Nicola Fleur for a girl?"
"Great." Teddy said. "I like that."
September 15th 2025
"It's a boy!" A triumphant cry rang around the room.
"Toire!" Teddy exclaimed. Fleur, Bill, Domi, Louis, their fiancé's and the rest of the Weasley-Potters came in.
"Only immediate family please." Healer Goldstein said. "Mrs Lupin needs her rest."
"It's fine, let them all come. They're all family." Victoire replied.
"Oh, Toire, vhat ees hees name?"
"Kieran Remus." Victoire told the room.
"Good choice, princess." Bill said.
"First great-grandbaby!" Molly was beside herself.
Victoire smiled.
January 7th 2028
"I'm pregnant." Victoire said as Teddy came through the door. Kieran, now two and a half, looked up from his toys, as he played at Toire's feet. He was the easiest, smartest toddler, and he rarely made a fuss. "Wha?" he now said.
"Kieran, you are going to have a little brother or sister." Victoire explained gently.
"Ok." he said, and went back to playing with his toys."
"Great, Vic!" Teddy exclaimed.
April 18th 2028
Victoire and Teddy were eating out. Italian. Claire, Louis's wife, had happily agreed to babysit Kieran. Actually, the couple got to go out a lot, because everyone loved to babysit Kieran.
The waiter appeared. "What would you like to have?"
"The fish ravioli, please?" Teddy asked.
"Certainly. And you, miss?"
"Uhh, the spaghetti bolognese. But can you add strawberry sauce with little bits of cookie?"
"Ok…" The waiter said, looking puzzled. "That can be arranged."
June 23rd 2028
"Names?" said Teddy.
"I was wondering when you'd ask." Victoire smiled.
"So what we were going to have last time for a girl, and Michael something for a boy?"
"Michael? Yeah, fine. But I have a feeling it's a girl." Victoire said.
"Ok..." Teddy replied, slightly confused. Never mind. Pregnant women were just like that.
July 7th 2028
"It's a girl!"
"Hah, I was right!" It had been an easy, quick labour and Victoire was not tired at all.
"She's cute." a random person said, from where his wife held a baby.
"Adorable!" cried a Healer next to them.
"Looks like we've got a little Veela girl on our hands. More Veela in her then you, Vic."
Teddy said.
"Yes, a quarter." Healer Goldstein said.
"Don't worry. I can teach her to control it."
"Contwol what?" Kieran asked.
"Some people have special powers to attract people towards them, darling. You don't have it, so people might pay more attention to Nikki then you. But we love you."
March 16th 2029
Victoire watched as Nicola, now eight months old, slept in her baby chair, which swung gently.
Kieran, now three, had become more adventurous, and now Claire was the only one who regularly bothered to volunteer to babysit.
There was a knock on the door, and Victoire opened it.
Claire came into the living room. The two women met up at the Lupins a lot because
Claire loved children. She was a year older than Louis."Not so appealing once you have the little suckers." Toire had said once.
"Another miscarriage." Claire said now. Her face showed signs of a long period of crying. "I can't help thinking that Louis wants someone who can give him a bloody child."
"That's crap and you know it. Louis is my little brother and he's a pain in the arse, but he loves you."
"Thanks Toire. I'm being irrational."
Victoire looked up to see Kieran pushing Nicola's baby chair, far too hard.
"Kieran!" she cried, rushing across the room.
Too late. Nicola had already started to scream at her rude awakening.
"Oh dear. Come on Kieran." Claire picked up the boy and started to guide him towards the toys.
"See." Toire moaned. "Two is enough. No more."
April 30th 2031
"I'm pregnant." Victoire said, on a quiet Sunday morning, or as quiet as you can get with two children under eight. Kieran was almost six and Nicola had just turned three.
"What's that?" Kieran asked.
Teddy snickered.
"It means that I'm going to have another baby."
"And how does that happen?"
"Um, well, Kieran, you're too young. Is that the bacon I smell burning? Let me get that."
"Boy or girl?" Nicola said.
"I want it to be a boy. You're annoying."
"Dat's not nice, Kiki."
Because Kieran's name was too hard for Nicola to say when she first learnt to talk, much
to his displeasure, she called him Kiki. She now actually could say Kieran, but she knew the name annoyed him.
"Nikki! You can say it now. Stop it!"
Being only three, Nicola could not think of a good comeback.
"I wanna sister!" she shouted.
"No we don't. One is annoying enough!"
"Hey!"
"Stop it!" Victoire said. "In a month we know if it's a boy or a girl. Teddy, can't you control the children when I'm making everyone breakfast? Oh, and get the bacon."
May 28th 2031
A month later, Victoire and Teddy were at St. Mungo's hospital.
"Victoire Lupin!"
They entered the examination room.
"Mrs Lupin!" Healer Goldstein greeted them. "How are the other two children?"
"Oh, brilliant, thank you. Should we start?"
"Ok. Lie on the examination table and we'll see."
After Healer Goldstein was done poking and prodding, she said. "All seems to be in order. Would you like to know the sex?"
"Er..." Victoire wasn't sure.
"The kids will love to know." Teddy whispered in her ear.
"Ok. Sure."
"Well, you are going to have a girl." Healer Goldstein said.
They got home. "How is it?" Claire asked glumly. She was in the kitchen, and they could hear Louis playing with the kids in the living room. Claire had just had a third miscarriage. "Sometimes I think that maybe I'm not supposed to have children. I mean, I try for ages to get pregnant, and then when I do, I have a bloody miscarriage."
"Aww, Claire. Some women just have more difficulty having children."
"Not you!" Claire laughed wanly. "You're firing them out. What's this one, boy or girl?"
"Girl."
Louis entered with the kids. "Hey, Toire, what's this one going to be?"
"It's a girl!"
"Yay!" Nicola cheered.
"Can it be a boy next time?" Kieran asked.
"Next time? I don't know about a next time. Three is enough." Teddy said.
"Yeah. Definitely." Victoire added.
"We'll be going now." Louis said.
"Bye." Claire called.
"Names?" Victoire asked.
"I don't care." Kieran answered, still crabby about another sister.
"Um, I like Daisy." Nicola said.
"Mmm, I'm not sure. I was thinking more jewel-names." Teddy said.
"Er, Sappire, Sa-ire? I can' say it. Kiki was reading and he said it, but I can't. Is it even a due, dwel- I can' say that eider."
"You mean Sapphire? Very pretty! Do you think Mummy will like it?"
"Will I like what? Teddy, please don't say you're planning another cooking experiment."
"No, me and Nikki were thinking of names for the baby. She suggested Sapphire."
"How nice! Well done, Nikki!"
November 23rd 2031
"It's a girl!"
"Yay! Sister!" Nicola shrieked.
The red-faced baby started to cry. "Oh! Sowwy!" Nicola said.
"Look! Her hair's blonde!" Dominique said, carrying William and holding Kristen's hand.
"Huh? It was red!" Teddy said.
"No!" Lily interjected. "It's pink."
"Pink?" Molly II questioned.
"She's a metamorphmagus!" Victoire exclaimed.
"Like Tonks." Hermione said quietly.
"Her name is Sapphire Nymphadora." Victoire murmured.
August 8th 2033
Victoire watched her children as they played (and squabbled.) Sapphy was a hyper little girl, now two, and she hadn't really learnt to walk, she had gone straight to running. Kieran, who would soon be eight, was bookish and loyal, and it was a toss-up between Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw for him. Nicola was just as adorable as always, and even at the young age of five, she was ambitious.
"Mummy, Mummy, Mummy!" Sapphire shrieked, bouncing into the room, her bubble-gum pink pigtails bouncing everywhere. She knocked into a vase from Fleur. "Oh no." She giggled.
"Reparo." Victoire sighed from where she was playing with Nicola and Kieran. Wow, she had thought Kieran and Nicola were hard work, but at least they could sit down!
Victoire thought about how to tell everyone the news. She was pregnant again!
The next morning was a Wednesday. She decided to tell everyone, just come out with it.
"I'm having another baby."
"Puh-lease can it be a boy. I will die if I have another sister."
"There's no need to be so mel-melodramatic." Nicola said.
"Wheeee!" Sapphy shrieked and threw her cereal across the room, hitting Teddy in the back of the head. "Heehee!"
"Rascal!" Teddy Scourgified his hair, kissed his children and wife goodbye and left.
Victoire turned around just in time to receive more cereal from Sapphy full on in the face.
February 16th 2034
"It's a boy." Healer Goldstein said. "But Mrs Lupin has not woken up yet. This could be bad. If she does, she will not be able to have any more children."
"I'm sorry." Teddy said.
"You don't have anything to be sorry for." Bill said. "Anyway, you are a great dad, and you have raised three kids very well."
"Thank you, Bill." Teddy said, surprised. He had always thought Bill hated him a bit for marrying his princess.
"She's stable. She'll make it."
"Oh, vhat a reelief!" Fleur sighed. "My preencess, she vill be all right."
Later, Victoire came out with the baby in her arms. "Michael, right? Michael Theodore."
September 1st 2037
It was time for Kieran to go to Hogwarts, and the family were sitting around the breakfast table. Currently Sapphy was bouncing around, chased by Teddy.
"Mum! Why can't I go?" nine-year old Nicola complained.
"And why couldn't I go a year early? I turn twelve in a flipping fortnight!" Kieran whined.
"Why does that matter?" Victoire asked, puzzled.
"Because, if I'm really bad, people will judge me because I'm the eldest in the year and they will think I should know more because of that!"
"That's ridiculous!" Victoire said. "Sit DOWN, Sapphire, please."
"But I wanna go!" Nikki was whining at her father now.
"Nikki, you can go in two years." Teddy said, tired of this recurring conversation. It had
been going on ever since Kieran got his letter.
"That's doesn't help! I wanna go NOW! Why does Kiki get to go?"
"Don't call me that!" Kieran yelled across the table."
"Because he's older." Teddy answered.
"Sapphy, get dressed!" Victoire yelled.
"Why?" Five year old Sapphy answered cheekily.
"Because we're going to be late!"
"Why?"
"Don't play that game with me, Sapphire Lupin. Get dressed. Now!"
"I WANNA GO!" Nicola yelled.
"Shut up! There's no need to be annoyed because I'm awesome enough to go and you're
not!"
"Don't be smug. Dad says it's because of AGE, not awesomeness."
"So for two years, I'm more awesome then you."
"I'm more awesome then you because I'm a Veela girl."
"You mean a male-attracting -" Kieran fell silent at his mother's glare.
"Kiki, what were you gonna say?"
"Now you won't know."
"I wanna know! I wanna know!"
"KIDS! Stop it!" Victoire looked over from where she was supervising Michael with his food. "Kieran, go sort out your bag. Make sure it is all packed. Nicola, go do something that doesn't involve annoying your brother. SAPPHY GET DRESSED!"
Later….
The family stood in the station, saying their goodbyes. Victoire could see Domi, her husband André and their three children, William, Kristen and Lara. Kristen was eleven, like Kieran, but she was almost a year younger, having been born late in August.
"Bye Kiki!" Nicola said.
"Bye Kiki!" Sapphire giggled. Much to Kieran's annoyance, she had adopted Nicola's name for him.
"Bye Kie-wan!" Michael called.
"It's Kiki." Sapphire said to him.
"No its not!" objected Kieran.
"Oh, Kieran, I can't believe you are going to Hogwarts." Victoire said, tears running
down her face. "Come on, give me one more hug!"
Kieran hugged Victoire, and then Teddy, and stepped onto the train.
The next day…
The next morning, it seemed quieter than usual. Sapphy was her normal hyper self, and Mike, who was three, was his normal quiet self. What was missing was the usual bickering between Kieran and Nicola.
Come to think of it, they had been bickering A LOT yesterday. Maybe they would miss the bickering.
Two letters arrived.
One of them was a postcard from the Bahamas, where Victoire's parents were on holiday.
The second was from Kieran.
"Dear Mum, Dad, Mike, Nikki and Sapphy." Victoire read out. "I am in Hufflepuff! The sorting hat toyed between that and Ravenclaw, but I am in Hufflepuff. Kris is in Ravenclaw, but I wasn't surprised at that. It took about one second. The train had chocolate frogs and liquorice wands, my favourites. In my dorm, there is Brady Finch-Fletchley, Ian Haworth, Frank Whitby and Cameron Zeller. There is another dorm where there are four other boys. One is Jackson Turpin, and something Cattermole. There are two who I don't know. The girls are Cassie Yardsley, Keira Whitby, Lena Bates, Annabelle Abbot, Eliza Collins, Ida something, someone else and something Hawke. I would say Cameron is one of my best friends, the other one being Lena Bates. I met both on the train. I have flying tomorrow, I hope I do well.
Love Kieran
September 1st 2039
Two years later, it was Nicola's turn. She and Kieran had grown out of the 'breakfast-time bickering', and Victoire had never thought she'd miss that. However it was Sapphy and Michael's turn.
"Hey, stupid!" Sapphy said as Michael came downstairs.
"Hi, idiot!"
"Hey, doofus."
"What is a doofus."
"Another word for idiot."
"So you said hi to yourself."
"Verdict: Mike isn't funny."
"I never said I was funny. However you are so unfunny it's funny."
"So I'm funny?"
"No, you're unfunny."
"Bloody hell, shut up, you two." Kieran said, irritated.
"Language!" Victoire shouted from the stove.
"Chillax!"
"I'm going, I'm awesome!" Nicola gloated.
"No-one likes a smug-arse!" Kieran replied.
"LANGUAGE! Kieran Remus, wash out your mouth."
"Ooh, you're middle-naming me, I'm so scared."
"You think you're funny, don't ya?" Nicola said.
"I never said that."
"But you implied it."
"Would you stop? Kieran Remus and Nicola Fleur! You should know better, you're Hogwarts age. Sapphire and Michael, stop. This is very silly and irritating!" Victoire exclaimed.
"Ditto." Teddy looked up from the newspaper.
"Teddy! Help me here!" Toire moaned.
"OK. Sapphy and Michael, get dressed, it's a big day. Nicola and Kieran, check your trunks."
"Chillax, I did it last night." Nicola said.
"I haven't done it at all." Kieran cried.
"Well, do it, and do it again!"
"Why can't I go?" Sapphire moaned.
"You're too young, Sapphy, you're only seven." Teddy replied.
"Nearly eight!" Sapphire objected.
"And Nicola's eleven and she's going and Kieran is thirteen and he's been going for two years. You're seven. You have to be eleven."
"That's not fair."
"Sapphire, you'll be going in four years. Just wait."
When the family got to the station, they met up with the rest of the clan who had Hogwarts age children.
There was her family, Dominique with her daughter Kristen, who was a third year like Kieran, with her siblings, nine year-old William and her seven year-old Lara. Roxanne hurried in with her daughter Aquella, who was a second year this year, with her siblings, the six year-old twins Chase and Marco, the four year-old Marina, and one year-old Ellis. Poor Roxanne. She looked a lot older then thirty-one, the stress must have got to her.
"Bye!" Nicola screamed as she got on the train.
Victoire wondered what house her daughter would be in. The Gryffindor tradition for Weasleys hadn't just been broken with her generation, it had been smashed. Three Ravenclaws, and Roxy had been a Slytherin.
September 2nd 2039
Hi Dad, Mum, Sapphy and Michael.
I am in Ravenclaw! I set the school record for the longest sorting-fifteen minutes! It toyed with Slytherin because I am ambitious, and I won't deny that I am. But it decided that I lacked the cunning and willingness to do anything to achieve my dream. It then couldn't decide between Gryffindor and Ravenclaw for ten minutes! But here I am in Ravenclaw.
In my dorm I have Maya Goldstein (daughter of your pregnancy healer, Mum), Annie White, Kirsty Corner, Lynn Roberts and Francesca Walker.
My friends right now are Maya and Frankie. (You don't call her Francesca. Ever. Actually, now she is looking over my shoulder and demanding I change it. Go away, Frankie.)
Yes, I know I just wrote that on my letter. (Thanks a lot).
Lots of love xxx
Nikki
P.S. Sapphy and Mike, just wait till you get here! And don't listen to anything the older ones feed you. There is no test, just a hat.
September 1st 2043.
"I'm going, I'm going." Sapphire gloated.
"Shut up, smug-ar-face." Kieran said, hastily changing what he was going to say.
"Like you weren't the same when you got your letter." Teddy smirked from the fridge.
"I can't believe it." Mike said. "You are all abandoning me. I'll be stuck here for two whole years!"
"Oh come on. I had to wait four! 'Cause I'm born in November!" Sapphy said.
"You had me." Michael said.
"And how does that make a difference? You're you."
"It'll come." Kieran said. He was in sixth year.
"Easy for you to say, it's flown for you. You're in the third year of Prefect-dom! Your last year" Mike protested.
"We all had to wait!" Nicola snapped.
"Don't be hormonal, Nikki." Sapphire laughed.
"What?" Michael asked.
Sapphy supressed a snort of laughter.
They arrived at the station. Many more Weasley second cousins attended now. Kristen's little sister, Lara, was starting along with Sapphy and William was a third year. Fred's daughter Alisha was starting as well, Lily's twin daughters Sammie and Scarlett were starting while James' son Harry Potter II was a fourth year.
Molly's son Rolf was a third year, and his little sister Carmel was also starting. She was crying hysterically, as Molly said, "Come on Carmie, get on the train."
"Bye Sapphy!" they called as Sapphy waved to them. One left.
The next morning, Sapphy sent a very short letter, detailing that she was in Gryffindor with Samira, Scarlett and Lara, Carmel was in Ravenclaw and Alisha was surprisingly in Slytherin, and that her other dorm mates were Ophelia Baker, Larissa Keyes, and Annika Thomas.
Victoire wasn't surprised to hear about Alisha's Slytherin sorting, the girl had something icy about her and Victoire could not like her.
September 1st 2045
"I'm finally going. It is here!" Michael said for the fourth time that morning.
"Ok. We get it. You are excited." Nicola sighed. "You know I have a good chance of head-girl if I pass my exams well this year-"
"You've already told us, like a thousand times!" Sapphy rolled her eyes.
"Bye." Kieran made to leave the kitchen.
"Kieran, I don't see why you can't come to see Mikey off." Victoire frowned.
"MUM! I'm not MIKEY! I'm MIKE! Or Michael!" Michael protested.
"Mum, I told you. I just had to get the early shift. I'm in healer training, I can't mess up."
"Fine."
The station was packed. Lucy's twin son and daughter were second years, as well as Chase and Marco.
As well as Michael, Rose's daughter Theresa was starting, as well as Delaney and Daphne Malfoy. Albus's adopted triplets were starting as well. About a quarter of the platform was taken over by the spill of her cousins and siblings, since everyone except Louis and Hugo had Hogwarts age children, and even they had come to see everyone off.
"Bye….." Victoire sobbed. She had lost them all, her sweet, smart eldest son, the serious, ambitious daughter, the hyper, bold daughter, and now her loyal youngest boy. Where were they as babies? Why hadn't she treasured that time more? She had wished for them to grow up sooner. Why?
June 30th 2052
"Teddy!" Victoire fussed. "Put some grey in your hair. I'll look way too old next to you." Victoire's blonde hair was now streaked with grey, much to her annoyance.
"I kept my normal skin!" Teddy protested, but then obliged.
They were attending their last child's graduation ceremony. Kieran, now nearly twenty-six, was a healer for St. Mungo's Poison Ward. He now lived with his long-term girlfriend Isabella Blakeley. Nicola, who was almost twenty-two, was slowly working her way up in the Ministry Law Department, and lived in a little flat nearby. Sapphire, who was nineteen in about five months, was in the Auror training program. She still lived with her parents, though she said in a couple years she would find her own little place, and the Gryffindor once-party girl would put money aside every month.
Her daughters didn't have any significant others. Nicola was determined to settle down in her career before she had a serious relationship. Sapphy said she wanted to become a proper Auror and then think about that.
Sure, the kids had all struggled, but the first three were all successful and happy in their very different paths. She was sure Michael would do the same.
She worried about him. He had had low self-esteem for his middle years at Hogwarts, and even though he had gotten over most of it, he still had a small inferiority complex. She was sure he would be successful.
"Michael Lupin, graduating 8th in his class."
Eighth! That was amazing, there were over fifty students in Mike's class!
She had never been so proud of him.
Her four darling children, not really children anymore, even the last would now be an adult, finding his way in a big wide world. Her heart ached with a mixture of pride and sadness. Pride because they were accomplishing so much, and sadness because they were once her babies, and now they were grown up.