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"Harry," Nymphadora Lupin said to her son's godfather after watching her three year old Teddy unwrap a kids' broomstick, "I want you to know you've just endangered the health of your godson."
"Aww, he'll be fine," protested.
"Do you have any idea how bad his flying genes are? I'm terrible, and Remus, well…tell Harry your story about first year flying lessons."
Remus looked up at Tonks from where he sat on the floor next to Teddy. He picked up his paper plate upon which sat a slice of chocolate frosted chocolate cake that he had baked for Teddy's third birthday party. He took a large bite and chewed slowly while everyone in the room (Nymphadora, Harry, Ginny, Ron, Hermione, George, Bill, Fleur, and Andromeda, even Teddy and infant Victoire) watched with great interest. He finally swallowed.
"I had never been on an actual broom, in the air before," He recalled. "I had always been scared of heights. I was worse than Wormtail, even."
"How bad was he?" Ron asked.
"Well, when we were calling our brooms up, his squirmed a bit, then came up and knocked him out," Remus said to a room half-full of laughter, while the others shuddered, trying to imagine how bad he was.
"Could someone have told me this before I lost an ear?" George asked humorously. Ginny, who was sitting between Harry and George, took out her wand and used it to pick up a forkful of cake from George's plate, and levitate it with great force straight into his mouth. Purple haired Teddy laughed and walked over to Ginny with his hand raised. High-fives were Teddy's current phase. Ginny high-fived him, laughing.
"Anyway," Remus continued, smiling. "I had called my broom up alright, not as quickly as James and Sirius, but at the about average time. Well, we all kicked off and hovered, and then flew around the pitch slowly. I was doing alright, once again not as great as Sirius and James, who were doing dives and stunts whenever Madam Hooch looked away." He paused, drawing breath. "Well, since flying over the Quidditch pitch is a direct route to the owlery, there were lots of owls flying over us. I felt something wet and smelly drop onto me, and I lost control of my broom and flew extremely fast straight at one of the hoops."
The room had cracked up. Teddy was laughing along, not quite sure at what was so funny.
"I woke up three hours later in the infirmary, with James, Sirius, and Wormtail standing over my bed. James had managed to save the owl poop, and he handed it to me in a plastic bag as a joke. Sirius joked that he would someday use to owl poop the track down the bird that pooped on me, and eat him alive while he was in dog form. That was later, of course, after he became an animagus." He paused and grinned. "The nicknames were horrible. For the rest of the year, Slytherins referred to me as 'Remus Poopin'. Once in a while they'd forget it, but soon after they'd remember. I think Severus was behind that. James and Sirius even made a bet on who could hex more Slytherins for calling me that."
"Who won?" George asked eagerly.
"Sirius, because he stayed at Hogwarts for Christmas break," Remus replied.
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The guests started dispersing after another hour had passed. By the time Remus and Tonks hugged Harry and Ginny, (who were the last of the guests), good-bye, Teddy was asleep on the couch, holding the stuffed owl from George (A new product, it pooped and hooted, but never ate), asleep. Remus scooped Teddy up gently and carried him off to bed. Tonks was sitting on the couch when Remus came back to the living room.
"I'm afraid to let Teddy onto a broom, even if it's just a kids' one," Tonks confessed, looking worried.
Remus sat next to her on the couch and kissed her cheek. "He'll be okay, though it's definitely a good thing Ginny's a Healer." Tonks smiled. "I never imagined you as an over-protective mother when I first met you."
"That's funny; I didn't imagine a man in an order devoted to fighting dark wizards to be afraid of heights."
He gave her a defeated look. "Teddy and I'll work on thank-you notes tomorrow."
"Great. You know, I think Teddy is the only person ever to never receive a book as a present from Hermione," Tonks remarked, holding up the kids' potions set that had been from Hermione and Ron.
"He might be. This is about my level," Remus said straight-faced, looking at the back of the potion kit box.
Tonks giggled. "Teddy'll be better than you in no time."
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By the time Tonks got home from the Ministry the next afternoon, Remus was chasing a flying red and gold blur that had to be Teddy around the house.
"Muuuum!" Teddy shrieked with delight when he saw her. He crashed into her, knocking her onto the couch thankfully behind her.
"He's still alive!" Tonks cried, amazed.
"And he's been on for a full hour! He's had several small crashes, but nothing too bad," Remus declared proudly.
"This is definitely our kid?"
"I'm pretty sure no one replaced him with another newborn metamorphosis while you were asleep and I was holding him."
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