I just published the first chapter of this this afternoon, but i actually wrote this before Teddy's, but Teddy is older so i put his out first. A lot of things actually overlap, but I tried to make Teddy's different from this one. JKR owns, as usual! cheers!
Victoire Weasley
1. She was born on the first anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts. That's why her parents named her victory. That's also why everyone in her family jokes that she's always been over dramatic, always wants to make a big entrance.
2. The first memory she has of Teddy was the first time she saw him. He had blue hair and a scar that matched Uncle Harry's. She cried. She was three.
3. At age four, she realized she was different. All her aunts and uncles, her father, everyone but her mother had the Weasley red hair. Her hair was strawberry blonde. Then Uncle Harry and Teddy assured her that there was nothing wrong with having different colored hair. Only much later in life would she realize that the two that consoled her weren't even related to her by blood. But by then, Al had been born and it didn't bother her so much anymore.
4. She and Teddy became fast friends, after she apologized and he got rid of his scar. When her mum told her Teddy wasn't her cousin, she didn't believe her. When her dad told her Teddy wasn't her cousin, she got mad, and said the joke wasn't very funny after mummy had tried it. When Uncle Harry and Auntie Ginny sat her and Teddy down, side by side, and explained that Teddy was not their child, and told the both of them that they weren't related to each other, they cried together. She was five, he was six.
5. When Dominique and Louis were born, Victoire was astounded that the two of them could have fit in her tiny mother's stomach at the same time. At that time, she was seven.
6. She loved her little twin brother and sister. That quickly fostered into annoyance when they turned two. She was nine.
7. When Teddy left for his first year at Hogwarts, she was only ten. At first, she was excited that she finally got to visit the train station where all the amazing things her parents and aunts and uncles did started. Then she realized that Teddy was getting on the train without her, and she wouldn't see him until Christmas time. She didn't cry, but she didn't respond to the letters Teddy sent her in September and October, either. By November her ten year old resolve had broken, and she figured at ten and a half, she should be more mature.
8. When she was finally at the train station for herself, standing side by side with her best friend, she was terrified. A rude boy, who her Uncle Harry pointed out as Blaise Zabini's younger brother, pushed her out of the way. Then Teddy invited her to sit with him and his friends, and it was all right again. By the time they got to Hogwarts, she was terrified again. What house would they put her in? Of course Teddy was in Gryffindor, his father had been in Gryffindor, and the godparents that raised him were two of the most famous Gryffindors that walked the halls of Hogwarts. Her, her mother had gone to a different school, and her father had been a Gryffindor. When she voiced her fears to Teddy he just looked at her and said, "Aren't all Weasleys Gryffindor? All the other colors would clash with your hair terribly." Then, when the Sorting Hat practically yelled in her ear, "A Weasley girl, twice in a row? The last Weasley sorted here was your Aunt, and that was barely ten years ago. You people breed like thestrals. I know exactly where to put YOU. GRYFFINDOR!" She was pretty relieved after that, and happy to write to her Dad and Mum, to top that.
9. In her fifth year, she was sent to Headmistress McGonagall's office for the first time. Her dad was furious until she explained. Stephen Zabini had gone up to her and asked her if she was a pureblood. When she answered yes, she was, but she didn't give a damn about blood status, and neither should he, he ignored her. He then told her that she was a looker, and since he was too, they should go out. Then he kissed her, and she Stunned him. The Headmistress said she understood, but couldn't play favorites. Bill and Fleur received a letter home, and Vic got detention and pats on the back from her siblings and cousins at Hogwarts.
10. In her 6th year, she started to figure out that she and Teddy were becoming a little bit more than just best friends. When she kissed him at the end of the Quidditch match that won Gryffindor the cup, no one knew but the two of them. With so much family both in the school and on the team, it was safer to do it in the shadows of the Prefect's bathroom they were both allowed to use.
11. When James Potter walked in on her and Teddy snogging on the train, she couldn't care less.
12. She rethought that caring when she visited the family for Christmas, and they ambushed her with questions, with her and Teddy sitting on a small couch in the Burrow, surrounded by adults and eavesdropping children in the next room.
13. After she left Hogwarts, the whole family had a fit that she wanted to move to France for a couple years. She just wanted to get in touch with her mother's roots there! It wasn't as if she were going very far, either. And the transfiguration work they were doing there, what an opportunity!
14. Then, when she went to visit Teddy at the St. Mungo's potion research center, she meant to tell him, she really did, but then he asked her to dinner at the fancy restaurant that had opened in Diagon Alley, and goodness, how could she ruin that with the news that she'd be leaving?
15. Perhaps it had been a good thing that she went to tell Teddy that night, because he proposed to her that night. And then she realized she wasn't really going to France to work in transfigurations, because she could just apparate there. She had been going to experience an adventure. And there was no greater adventure than getting married to her best friend.
16. They got married on the 2nd of May, the 20th anniversary of Victory Day. Victoire Day. It was always that to her. First her birthday, then her wedding day. After two and a half years of being engaged, it was time. They had it right after the annual ceremony, that way her whole family was gathered anyway. Besides, there was something kind of romantic and sentimental in getting married in the place where her parents had found each other, where his parents had confessed their love to each other, where his parents had last cared for each other.
17. That night, when the family thanked Teddy for changing her mind, he looked surprised. She didn't blame him, she hadn't told him. When she did, he shook his head and told her that she was being ridiculous, and why didn't they move to France for a year to try it out for size? She shook her head, knowing why she had changed her mind. "Besides," she told her family, "I may as well study under McGonagall while she's still around!" and they laughed with her.
18. She was overjoyed when the Ministry offered her a job. The Department of Mysteries! How could she refuse an offer like that, and only a year out of Hogwarts? Fine, her family name had probably helped a bit, and having Aunt Luna working there probably helped as well, but still. Getting to work in the deepest depths of transfigurations that none had ever touched before, that was an amazing opportunity.
19. When she told the whole family about her job opportunity, they laughed at her enthusiasm. When she asked why, they laughed more, and Aunt Angelina was kind enough to point out that half of them worked at the ministry, and the ones that didn't either knew enough or had been in there without permission. Vic thought that it was rather off putting to have a family that never abided to the normal Wizarding laws.
20. In the end, there was nothing quite like working in that Department. She wasn't bound by the old laws of unspeakable, because those had been abolished under the new order. She was free to tell those she deemed trustworthy anything she pleased. It probably helped that many family members worked there in the first place. It was a nice life, knowing that she could answer the questions her aunts and uncles had raised from their days as hell raisers. Vic and Teddy Lupin had the perfect jobs to find the answers to those questions.
so, what do you think? reviews, please(:
