Teddy Lupin and the Secret

Victoire Weasley sat in an overstuffed arm chair in the Gryffindor Common Room reading a book when her best friend Teddy Lupin walked in holding something behind his back.

"What's that?" She asked him.

"What's what?"

"You're hiding something from me." She stood up and stepped toward Teddy.

"No, I'm not." He backed away from her.

"Yes, you are." She reached around his backside, but he quickly moved away.

"Stop, Victa, there's nothing behind my back." He dashed toward the stairs. "And you can't follow."

Actually Victoire could follow. Girls can go into the boys' dormitories but the boys couldn't go into the girls' dormitories. Somewhere along the way they believed that a girl in a boy's room wasn't as bad as a boy in a girl's room.

Victoire made for the stairs but stopped when she spotted Teddy's other best friend, Dana.

"Do you know what Teddy's hiding from me?" She asked.

"He's not hiding anything."

The look on Dana's face told Victoire that she knew. She knew and she wasn't telling. Dana was one of the best people Victoire knew at keeping a secret.

"Hey, Teddy," Dana said.

Teddy stepped down the stairs and made his way to the exit of the common room.

"Hey, Teddy," Victoire repeated.

"Hey, Dana," Teddy replied with a wave before leaving the room.

"Did he just ignore me?" Victoire ran after him. "Teddy!" She called out.

He did not turn around. He made no notice that he heard her.

"Teddy!" She called out again.

Nothing.

She ran to him and turned him around. He fought to get out of her grip, but she held on tighter.

"Why are you ignoring me?"

"I'm not ignoring you." He continued on his way.

"Yes, you are!"

"I gotta go…study. Yeah, I gotta go study."

"You have no books."

"I'm meeting someone in the library and he has them."

"Fine!" Victoire knew he was lying, but she also knew she wasn't getting anything out of him.

"Eleanor!" Victoire called out later that day to her female best friend who was also the same age as her. Teddy's two years older. Victoire was currently in her dormitory wondering what Teddy and well, even, Dana were up to. Eleanor had entered the room but upon Victoire's greeting she turned to leave.

"Are you ignoring me now, too?" She threw her wand against the wall hoping it would shatter, but it didn't even crack.

"No, I just realized I forgot something. I'll be right back."

Victoire jumped up and stopped Eleanor before she could leave the room.

"I know you know what's going on."

"I don't know anything."

"Ellie, you're a terrible liar."

"I'm not lying!"

"Fine, whatever, I don't care." Victoire huffed back to her bed and drew the curtains closed. Eleanor went after her and entered the curtains.

"You're mad about something, aren't you?"

"Takes a genius to figure that one, does it?"

"You're not mad at me, so don't take it out on me. What are you upset about?"

Victoire looked away. "Everyone's ignoring me and I thought you were, too."

"I'm not ignoring you. I'm talking to you now."

"Yeah, I guess so, but only because my bad mood forced you to."

"I don't know why everyone's ignoring you. Why don't we go to the common room and see if anyone wants to join us in a game of Exploding Snap." Exploding Snap was Victoire's favorite game.

"OK." She smiled not quite as brightly as she usually did but still good enough.

As they left the dormitory, Victoire wondered why everything was so quiet. It wasn't late so this kind of quiet in Gryffindor was very suspicious. Not to mention, it was quite dark.

"Er, Eleanor, I can't see anything."

"Oh, right, sorry." Eleanor lifted her wand. "Lumos!"

With that Victoire saw, well, what did she see? All of her friends and her friends' friends gathered at the base of the stairs in the common room decorations hung everywhere. When Eleanor turned on her wand's light someone else turned on all the lights in the common room.

"Surprise!" Half the people shouted.

"Happy Birthday!" the other half shouted.

Victoire spotted the main banner in scarlet written in gold that read "Happy Birthday, Victoire!"

"But, but, but, my birthday's not til next week!"

"That's the surprise," Teddy said with a great big smile.

"I love you, guys!" Victoire ran to Teddy and gave him a hug which he gladly accepted.