Alright, now for some wolfiness. I hope you like this chapter, because I do.
Sadly, Teddy doesn't belong to me, I wish he did, I love him, but he doesn't. Neither does any of the other Harry Potter characters.
Thirteen year old Teddy Lupin was sitting on the bed in the guest room in Harry Potter's house. He was just sitting there, looking out the window into the night. This was how Teddy thought best, alone, in the night, looking out at the sky, especially when there was a beautiful full moon like there was that night.
While Teddy was thinking Harry came into the room and sat down on the bed next to him. Teddy was staying with Harry for a few weeks and all while he'd been there he'd been oddly quiet. Harry had come in to try to talk with the boy.
"What are you doing up here all by yourself?" Harry asks Teddy. Teddy just shrugs and looks at the moon and says "I'm just thinking about things. The moon really is beautiful tonight." Harry looks up at the moon too, "Yea, I guess it is. It's kind of hard to believe how dangerous it is when like this." Teddy stiffened at that comment and nodded, wishing that Harry wouldn't say any more about it, but he did.
"You know, that's what your father was most afraid of, the full moon. It's actually what his boggart turned into." Harry says. Teddy looks at his godfather in shock, "It was?" Teddy asks, his voice a little shaky. Harry nods and says "He hated everything that had to do with werewolves, or normal wolves, because it reminded him of what he was." Harry stopped talking because he noticed that Teddy seemed really upset about this.
"Hey, are you okay?" Harry asks, but instead of answering Teddy opens up the window and climbs out of it, dropping to the ground from the second story. Despite that though he landed just fine and started running across the yard. Harry watches Teddy run for a second before getting up and quickly going downstairs with the intent of going after the boy. Once downstairs the first person he runs into is Vicky. She and her parents had come to visit for the night and they had just arrived.
"Hey uncle Harry," Vicky says, "Where's Teddy?" Harry takes a deep breath and says "He was in the guest room, but he got upset and jumped out the window and ran off."
"What did he get upset about?" Vicky asks, concerned. "I don't know," Harry answers, "I was just talking to him and he ran off."
"Well, what were you talking about?" Vicky asks. "I was just telling him some things about his dad." Harry says.
"Like what?" Vicky asks, sounding very worried. "Well, like how his dad was afraid of the full moon and I think I said that he hated anything that had to do with wolves."
"You said that?" Vicky exclaims, when Harry nods she groans and says "As if he didn't feel guilty enough." Before Harry could ask what she meant she ran out of the house to go after Teddy, telling Harry to stay there. A few minutes after Vicky left Bill comes into the room looking really worried.
"Harry, get your kids, we have to get out of here." Bill says.
"What? Why?" Harry asks. Bill points to a window and says "It's a full moon tonight and I've been told that there is a werewolf in the area. We should take the kids someplace safer."
"Yeah, we probably should," Harry says, then he remembers, "Except that Teddy and Victoire are both outside right now, and I have no clue where."
Victoire was running, following Teddy's footprints to find him. Gradually his footprints became more wolf like and showed signs that he'd slowed to a walk. Vicky kept following them until she found him, sitting on under a tree and looking at the moon. Vicky walks over to Teddy and says "You know Harry wasn't trying to hurt you, if you would just tell him then he wouldn't say things like that anymore."
"I know," Teddy says, "but I still feel like I'm betraying my dad."
"You're not," Victoire assures him, "You can't help but be wolf like, it's in your blood." Teddy smiles and nods, but then freezes and looks toward the nearby trees.
"Be quiet," He whispers to Vicky, "I hear something." Victoire stops to listen too, then they both hear a howling sound from nearby. They look at each other, fear in both of their eyes.
"That didn't sound like an ordinary wolf," Victoire whispers. Teddy shakes his head and says "It wasn't." After looking into the trees for another minute Teddy stands up and says "Get on my back, Vicky." She hesitates but gets on his back just the same. Once Vicky is on Teddy starts running as fast as he could, which was very fast. He could hear something behind him but he didn't bother to look back to see what it was, he just kept on running.
When they got to Harry's house Teddy puts Victoire down and she runs into the house while Teddy turns around to look at the werewolf which had followed them.
Inside, Bill hugs his daughter, glad that she is safe. But Harry is looking outside, very worried about Teddy. The werewolf wasn't attacking him, but it was threatening. Harry was just about to go outside to see if he could do anything to stop the monster when Victoire grabs his arm and says, "Let Teddy handle this, he can do it, but no one else can be out there with him."
Teddy keeps eye contact with the werewolf, trying to not agitate it further. After a minute Teddy closes his eyes in concentration to change his appearance. When he opens his eyes again he can tell that the transformation had worked, he had turned into a wolf. Teddy talks to the werewolf, trying to reach the human inside. Somehow he succeeds and the werewolf behaves normally, having gotten his human mind back in control. Teddy nods and howls, the werewolf joins his howl, then leaves.
Teddy turns back into a human again and goes inside where he is instantly hugged by Harry.
"Don't you ever scare me like that again," Harry says, ruffling Teddy's hair. Harry then looks Teddy in the eyes and says "How did you do that though?"
"Well, I'm sort of an animagus," Teddy says slowly. "You know, I have some wolf blood in me, from my dad. Wolf blood, mind you, not werewolf. And I can change my appearance at will from my mum, I guess those two combinations have made me into a wolf animagus at birth. And besides that I act very wolf like, even when not in wolf form. Especially around the time of the full moon."
"And you never told me about it because you thought that I would be angry at you or something?" Harry asks, Teddy looks at the ground, embarrassed. Harry laughs and ruffles the boys hair again, saying "I'm not going to be mad at you for something you can't help. And it's pretty obvious that you like being a wolf, so it's fine."
"That's what I was trying to tell him." Victoire cuts in, "I knew I was right."
"Yeah yeah, you're always right," Teddy says, rolling his eyes, "Stop rubbing it in."
"Are there anymore secrets that you're keeping from me?" Harry asks. Teddy doesn't answer, but grabs his arm awkwardly and looks up at the ceiling. Harry sighs and says, "I'll take that as a yes." Teddy shrugs and says "Of course it is, all teenagers have obnoxious secrets that they don't want someone to know, that's what makes them teenagers."
"Once again, that is another thing that you think that not many teenagers are going to agree with you about." Harry says. Teddy smiles and says "I know, I'm just special like that."
Now that is a good chapter ending, unlike the last one. I have one more story about Teddy planned, but it's longer, so it will either be one long chapter or two shorter chapters. Probably the two shorter chapters. Until then, read on.