Eight Hours Later
Eight exhausting hours later, I was in the Potter's guest bedroom trying to get cleaned up for dinner. I had already cleaned and straitened my hair with a little bottle of potion that was in the attached bathroom and had gotten to work on my outfit. Pink goes, in my mind anyway, very nicely with green so I unpacked my floral pink blouse and green shorts and pit on a bit of vanilla perfume. I did my hair back to its usual light yet bright blue and looked in the mirror. "Yup," I thought to myself "You look like a nut. Is this the first impression I want to give? Maybe brown would be better." I grew my hair out in curls and made it a butterscotch brown.
Albus knocked on my door. "Zoe, the Weaslys are here. Wanna eat now?" "Yeah, I'm coming."
We saw a boy on the stairs coming out of James and Albus's room. He had bright red hair but not the natural kind like Lily's. "Hey Teddy," Albus said. I ducked around the corner and immediately changed my hair to its normal blue pixie-cut. A false impression is a bad one. Albus hadn't seemed to really notice that I had left since he was laughing at Teddy changing his ears into elephant ears and Teddy hadn't seen me yet. He stopped mid-shift when he realized I was there. I could already tell that he was a ladies man. "Oh hello, I hadn't realized that we had a beautiful lady in the house." He says with this look that makes me roll my eyes. That may work on some girls, but it most defiantly won't work on me. Especially when the guy saying it to me has one elephant ear and one normal ear. I just laugh and flip the elephant ear over his face like a hood. He just cracks up and I start back down the stairs.
"I'm Teddy by the way, Teddy Lupin. Love the hair by the way, blue suits you." He says as he changes his ear back. "And you are?." "Starving! But you can call me Zoe." "Cute" he says. "But not nearly as cute as that accent. Where're you from?" "Oklahoma. Thats in the southern part of America." We were at the bottom of the stairs now and i could tell that the rest of the Weasly family had gotten here by the sound of voices coming from the kitchen.
Once we got down the stairs, an excellent and familiar smell hit me like a boatload of bricks. Chinese Take-out, the absolute best food in the entire world.
"Oh my wizard god. That smells amazing." Teddy laughed and dragged me by my arm into the kitchen.
"Oh, you must be Zoe. A pleasure to meet you, I'm Hermione Weasly," A brown haired witch got up from her place at the table and came over to shake my hand.
"Oi, James! Looks like Teddy's gotten to her quicker than you did!" A tall red-haired man stood up and ran over to put an arm around me and Teddy. "Neither of them will shut up about you. Just met you and they're already head over heels!"
"Oh shuttup Ron." Teddy said. "Just cuz me and James've met more women than you ever had." Teddy said with a grin as he dropped my arm.
"Oh Ron, cut the kids a break." Harry said laughing "They are right though, and you know it."
"Oh don't even get me started on how much you had to pay Parvati to go to the Yule Ball with you."
"And it was twice as much for you and Padma!"
"Let's just settle this now, the only girls Ron talked to before fifth year was me and Hermione and the only one Harry dated before me was a girl who just watched her boyfriend die." Hermione, me and the boys cracked up but Ron and Harry looked slightly bitter. Theat changed when Ginny brought out the food, it was all smiles from everyone. I got to meet Rose and Hugo then. Rose is quiet yet confident and I absolutely adore her. Hugo is the typical little brother. Loud and silly.
"So, what all can you change?" Teddy asked between bites. "Just my hair and face. Sometimes my toes..." "Same with me. I guess with practice."
"Oh lets see you do it Zoe, please!" Hugo said with his mouth full. "And you too Teddy" Lily said. "Let the girl eat sweetie, after dinner maybe." Hermione said. "Well I'm done." Said Lily. "Yeah, me too!" Hugo chirped in. "And me" said Albus. I always love to put on a show so of course i shoved down the last wonton I had and helped James clear the table. Then, me and Teddy went into the living room and I told him a routine that we could do.
Once everyone was in the room, we started up. First we turned into human shaped birds with red and gold feathers. Then we morphed into elephants. After that we changed into each other, right down to the last freckle.
After the Weaslys left, Lily and Albus fell asleep and while Harry and Ginny took them upstairs for bed, Teddy, James,and I cleaned the kitchen up and they told me about Hogwarts.
"Watch out for Filtch. Get on Peeves's good side and kick Mrs. Norris every chance you get. That damn cat has been aroud for I don't even know how long and she just won't die." These seemed to be the three major rules at Hogwarts. That, and don't get caught. My slightly evil side certainly love these two and their pranks. Two new best friends? I thinks so.
