12 Grimmauld Place
Teddy had been home from Hogwarts for two weeks and spent more time at 12 Grimmauld Place with the Potters than with his own grandmother whom he lived with!
"Teddy. This is great." Harry gasped.
"What?" Teddy asked his godfather.
"You've become Head Boy!" Ginny cried.
All Teddy could say was, "Well. I think it's because Professor Rainn just tries to make me feel better because he saw mum and dad die and wants me live better than them."
"Oh. Thomas Rainn." Harry said. "He was three years ahead of me and four for Ginny."
"Well he claimes to have seen when that dude killed dad then saw mum lying in the Great Hall."
"Did I hear Teddy became Head Boy?" Asked a familiar voice to the Potter's and Teddy.
"Yes Hermione." Teddy said.
"Oh and Bill and Fleur called and said Victoire became a Prefect!" Hermione said.
"That's great!" Ginny said.
Teddy snickered. "I know! I wonder if I'll get to boss her around?"
"TEDDY!" Harry, Ginny and Hermione gasped.
"What?" He asked stupidly.
Then James walked in. "Hello mother, father, aunt who is also godmother. Oh and Teddy."
"Hello James. Did you hear? I'm head boy and Victoire is prefect and I get to boss her around!"
"Awesome. Do you know wheiter Louis is starting? I don't want to be the only one in my family to be starting year one!"
"Possibly Molly?" Ginny said.
"Hmm." James said. "Bye. Teddy you coming?"
"Where?"
"Up in the A-T-T-I-C." He spelled out.
"James we can spell." Hermione told her godson.
"Oh yeah."
"Well Teddy is not going anywhere until he calls his grandmother and tells her the news!" Ginny insisted.
"Fine." Then Teddy left the room.
"James, why do you want to go to the attic?" Harry asked his eldest child.
"Umm. Yeah Al?" He said. "Oh. Sorry. Al needs his big brother!"
"I didn't hear anything!" Harry insisted.
"Umm... See ya." Then he ran off.
"I worry about that boy!" Harry told his wife and sister-in-law.
"Me too! Me too!" Ginny snickered.
James ran up the stairs and stopped on the second floor. Lily's room was on this floor. He ran down the hall and made an almost complete stop infront of her room. He opened the door and ran in. It was completely pink. She had a pink bed with pink blankets and pillows. Pink stuffed animals and pink furniture. The only things not pink were her carpets and walls. Plus it smelled like James' mother's perfume. Cranberry, Pineapple and Coconut!
"Who said you could come in my room?" Lily cried.
"Privilege of being the oldest. I get these privileges in Al's room too." He insisted.
"No because your a big meanie because I'm only seven and a girl." She cried once more. "I'm telling mummy. Mummy!" She cried running down the hall and staires.
Gotta go. He thought. And he was gone. Albus' room was on the third floor along with James' and Teddy's when he slept there on weekends.
He ran to his bedroom. It had his four-poster bed. Beside it was a small television. On the walls were posters of famous qudditch teams including the Holyhead Harpies because his mother had played for the team for four years! on his drawer was his wand, school books and robes. He dicided to grab his favorite book on the pile: A Guide to the Dark Arts, by Harry J. Potter and jumped onto his bed.
Hmm. This sounds cool. He thought.
He got up and ran to his drawer. He picked up his wand and instantly felt that warm, I-can-rule-the-world feeling he had felt a month ago.
"I got this." And with the wave of his wand he whipered, "Expelliarmus." But all that happened was a red light shooting of his wand and knocking over his drawer and bookcase. Plus make his owl, Hedwig start screeching!
"Hedwig. Shoosh it. Stupid owl!" He whispered angrily to his owl!
"James! What's going on up there?" Harry bellowed, sounding close by. Then the door shot open and Harry, Ginny and Hermione gasped.
"Na, na, na, na, na." Lily teased. "Busted!" Then she happily skipped down the hall and down the stairs.
"What did I say about practising magic in the house, or outside the house? You may get expelled from Hogwarts before you get there!" Ginny nagged.
"Yeah and what spell where you trying?" Harry asked.
"Umm. Expelliarmus."
"My signature spell." Harry laughed. "James. Hogwarts started a First Year Duelling Club. If you want to join ask me and I may teach you that charm!"
"Harry!" Ginny and Hermione nagged.
"Look honey. I learned it when I was twelve from Snape and Lockhart. I think it would be better to learn that charm from his father than from two his professors duelling."
"Fine."
"Okay James. You're about to get a crash course in duelling."
James and Harry met down stairs with their wands.
"Where are we going to duel?" James asked.
"The basement."
"Why the basement. The kitchen is down there."
"Yes but Ron and I set a duelling station when we were nineteen and not married."
"Oh."
"Follow me."
They walked around the house until they got to the set of stairs heading down. There was a small door too at the top of the stairs that lead into a small section of the basement James had never seen. Harry walked over and knocked on the door. A small creature walked out. He squinted and slouched. He was thin and wore rags.
"Yes Master Potter."
"Kreacher. Keep Albus and Lily out of the basement. I don't need them thinking me and James are really fighting."
"Of course Master Potter."
"And, don't call me Master Potter. Call me Harry."
"Yes Harry." And he stood watch from in his home.
"Thank you Kreacher." And he motioned for James to follow him.
He lead James down the stairs and throught the door to the basement. It was huge and smelled like chopped carrots and peas and chicken, which was what they were having for dinner. Harry lead him to a fairly large door. It had two wands carved into the door with each wand having a blast of some sort flaring out of the ends. Along with that, there was a D and C carved into each wand.
Harry reached out, turned the handle, opened the door and motioned for James to follow.
