A/N - This a quick update. Thanks to the people who reviewed. I want more reviews even if they're bad so i can improve. I've never done this before so i do need help. Teddy will get less serious as the story goes on but i need show his "percy" side first. He's quite a conflicted character.

P.S - the title won't become clear for a good few chapters yet and watch out for minor characters who will become very major soon.

Disclaimer - I do not own harry potter. J.K rowling does i assume.

Chapter Three

"Oh no you don't!"

"Ow! Gran, that hurt," said Teddy rubbing his hand where his grandmother had hit him.

"This is your Godfather's birthday party," said Andromeda gruffly. "I will not have you personally devouring all the food."

"But I'm hungry," moaned Teddy, wistfully staring at the chocolate cake on the plate in front of him.

"You're always hungry Teddy," said James grinning from ear to ear. He had obviously seen Teddy sneak into Kitchen and be punished for it by Andromeda Tonks. "Stealing cake from the kitchen, it's not very Head boyish is it Aunt Andromeda?"

"No it's not James," said Andromeda with a sly grin, "I'm going back to the party, keep an eye on my grandson wont you?"

Andromeda left the kitchen and James burst into sniggers, leaving Teddy humiliated by the fact his grandmother had asked a ten year old to keep tabs on him. "Think that was funny do you James?"

"Yes," said James earnestly, wiping a tear of mirth from his eye, "Your Gran still hits you with her wand! Classic!"

"Levicorpus," said Teddy lazily with a whish of his wand. He watched in amusement as James was hoisted into the air by his right ankle.

"That's not fair! Put me down Teddy! Just wait when I can do magic!"

"What you mean like this?" grinned Teddy with another whish of his wand, this time silently. James still airborne began laughing uncontrollably, tears of joy rolling down his cheeks as he gasped for air in between giggles. "It… is… so… unfair…stop it Teddy! I'm going to wet myself!"

"Ok, ok."

James fell in a heap on the floor, clutching his rib.

"You ok?" asked Teddy, helping him up.

"I've never laughed so much in my life. You have to teach me that spell and the Levi corpse one."

"Levicorpus," corrected Teddy "I will once you get a wand." ruffling his God brother's hair fondly. "Now don't laugh at me again, it's not my fault my Gran still thinks I'm nine."

"You're lucky Grandma Molly isn't your Gran," said James seriously as the two of them sat down. Teddy absent-mindedly began eating the cake while James fought all urges to burst in laughter and alert Teddy to what he was doing. From the dining room they could hear loud music and laughter. It was eight thirty and the party was in full swing. Teddy's back was sore from the amount of people who had patted him for becoming Head Boy.

"There you are!" The two boys looked up to find Hermione Weasley beaming at them. "You're missing your own party!"

"Me and James were just taking time out," explained Teddy, "How about you?"

"Well Ginny asked me to get the chocolate cake out," laughed Hermione sitting beside Teddy. Teddy looked at half eaten cake in front of him in horror and then quickly to his God brother who was rolling on the floor with laughter. "Why didn't you tell me?" yelled Teddy, his hands full of chocolate.

James narrowly missed a hex and ran laughing out of the kitchen.

"I'm going to get him," muttered Teddy under his breath as Hermione giggled. "What am I going to do? I didn't even realise I was eating it."

"Don't worry," laughed Hermione, "We'll say the cat ate it."

"Good plan," said Teddy grinning. He licked the chocolate the hands happily.

"So, Harry tells me you want to work for the government after Hogwarts," said Hermione casually.

Teddy nodded, waiting for Hermione to say something; he had always valued her opinion. He sometimes wished she was Harry's wife as they were his two favourite people in the world.

"Not many people go straight from Hogwarts into the government, at least not successfully. There's a few who work in admin and other bits but nothing high ranking obviously, you can't just walk in and expect to get a good job."

Teddy nodded again.

"Your Godfather is worried that in the time it'll take you to get a secure job in the government; you could have been a high ranking auror or something."

"I don't want to be an auror," said Teddy automatically.

"I know you don't, and I don't agree with Harry."

Teddy looked at Hermione. "You don't?"

"Nope, if anyone could become the youngest ever wizard to earn a ministerial job, it'll be you."

Teddy felt ten feet tall. He smile broadly, this was exactly the thing he needed to hear.

"Have you talked to Kingsley?"

Teddy shook his head. "I think you should. It doesn't have to be tonight. Just promise me something Teddy."

"Anything"

Hermione leaned closer to Teddy so that he could see the pupils of her browns eyes very clearly. "Don't try and nab my job."

Teddy grinned. "I wouldn't dream of it. Defence yuck!"

"I told you loved defence against the dark arts?"

"I do. But if I was defence minister, I'd have to spend all my time in the auror department."

"Hey, my best friend and husband are part of that department!"

"What about your husband?"

Ron Weasley smiled serenely at his wife and almost nephew. He was slightly tipsy and nearly fell over trying to put his arms round his wife.

"Been at the fire whiskey, love?" asked Hermione with a roll of her eyes.

"Me?" slurred Ron innocently, "Not touch a drop. Now Hagrid…"

"Oh no is Hagrid drinking?" cried Hermione, "Don't you remember what happened Christmas? Hugo is still having nightmares about that."

"I'll go check on him," said Teddy, he was feeling good now that he had talked to Hermione and stood up to leave the kitchen. He met Ginny in the hallway looking a little more than flustered. "Are you ok Ginny?"

"Where have you been?" came the snap reply from Ginny, her face red. "It's your party and no one has even seen you! Where's Hermione? I sent her to get the chocolate cake years ago."

"Er…"

"Never mind, get in that dining room now and dance or I'll hex you so badly you wont know what's hit you, Teddy Lupin."

"Will do," said Teddy with wry grin, arriving into the dining room to roar of applause.

"There's our head boy!" yelled Harry attempting to carry Teddy into the centre of the room with his free hand. His other was occupied by a bottle of wine. "Elf-made, take a swig, I won't say a word to Ginny!"

"No thanks," said Teddy swiftly moving out of the limelight to the food table, as everyone present sang "Hip Hip Hurray!"

"Where are all the kids?" Teddy asked his uncle, George Weasley who appeared to be depositing something into the pumpkin juice.

"Upstairs," George said quickly, he turned to Teddy with a smirk, his moustache twitching in delight. "Look at Percy trying to be all high and mighty by not dancing or having fun. I think a little extra concentrated fire whiskey in his pumpkin juice should liven him up?"

Teddy snickered as George left his side and went to offer Percy a cup of juice. He looked around the room; everyone who Ginny had told him were invited had come. It was nice that for all Harry's famousness, he could still have a party with such normal people. Hagrid was dancing like a madman with his grandmother, one of Percy's twins Frederica seemed to be in heated discussion with Fleur, and Dean Thomas seemed to be showing Aberforth Dumbledore and anyone else in that vicinity a new product from his Quidditch shop. Teddy was about to join that conversation when he saw out of the corner of his eye, Victoire Weasley with her brother Claude-William and sister Amelie. Something in the pit of his stomach growled at the sight of Victoire. It'd been a week since their last lesson and two weeks since their kiss. She had all but ignored him during their last tutoring session which, on the plus side, meant they did more work, but made Teddy feel oddly unhappy. He wanted to say something to her, but he didn't know what. His common sense was telling him to stay away from this mouthy teenage girl, but his heart was guiding his feet towards where she sat sandwiched in between her siblings on the couch.

"Hey Victoire," said Teddy. His voice sounded peculiar, slightly more high-pitched than usual. Bill's children stopped their conversation which happened to be in rapid French and stared up at him expectedly. "Erm…hi Amelie, hey CW,"

Claude-William Weasley looked up at Teddy and his lips curled into a smile. It wasn't a friendly smile; it was a smile that made Teddy feel uneasy. But then he always felt uneasy when he was around fourteen year old Claude-William.

"What do you want Theodore?" quipped Victoire, crossing her arms tightly. Her strawberry blonde hair fell messily on her face but it only made her look prettier as she stared at him viciously.

"You look very nice today," Teddy began, fully aware of Claude-William unwavering gaze on him.

"Let's cut to the chase shall we?" said Victoire ruthlessly, "You're head boy, you expect me to congratulate you. Well I'm not going to. Allons!"

Claude-William and Victoire rose up and barge past Teddy out of the dining room. Teddy sighed, would Victoire ever talk to him again? "Don't mind her Teddy," said Amelie suddenly patting the couch for Teddy to sit down. "She's just sour that didn't get Prefect."

"Oh… who did?

"Her best friend: Mandy Wood and this boy called Mikhail. I don't honestly think she thought she would get it, I mean she blew up the girl's toilet last year. Professor Sprout isn't going to forget that in a hurry. Mum and dad were a bit disappointed. They were both prefects in their day. There's so pressure on her, I wish people will just leave her be."

"Harry was never prefect," added Teddy. Amelie smiled at him, she was only twelve but she was wiser than most adults. She looked more like Bill than Fleur with dark red hair to her shoulders and big brown eyes. She looked a lot like Ginny in a way and Lily. Then again most of the Weasley girls tended to look similar. Only Rose and Victoire didn't have red hair. "So, who's head girl?" asked Amelie.

"Vanessa Fletcher I expect," answered Teddy. She was the smartest, nicest, most polite girl in his year, there was no competition.

"Fletcher?" said Harry joining Teddy and Amelie on the couch. He passed a bottle of butterbeer each to Teddy and Amelie. They murmured thanks.

"Yep," said Teddy taking a long swig of his drink.

"Fletcher?" repeated Harry, closing his eyes in thought. "Can't be, he'd been too young to have grandchildren and he didn't have kids did he?"

Amelie and Teddy stared at Harry in bemusement but didn't say anything.

"I suppose it's a common name," continued Harry taking a sip of his elf-made wine. Teddy shrugged.

"What's that Harry?" Arthur Weasley said sitting on a chair near the group.

"Nothing, I was just speculating whether the new head girl could be any relation to Dung."

"Mundungus Fletcher?" said Arthur, "I wasn't aware that he had children or grandchildren."

"Me neither," said Harry. "What does this Vanessa Fletcher look like?"
Teddy shrugged. "Dark skin, green eyes, long black hair. She wears glasses. She's fairly good-looking."

"No, if she's good-looking then she can't be related to Dung," laughed Harry.

"She's half-Ecuadorian," said Teddy suddenly remembering a conversation he had with Vanessa a couple of years ago. "Her father is English. He used to buy wholesale goods from her grandfather to sell in England and that's how her parents met. Apparently he's a slob and her mum could have done much better if she hadn't got pregnant."

"Sounds exactly like Dung," commented Arthur. "Probably emigrated there after the seven potters fiasco,"

"Maybe," said Teddy not quite sure what the seven potters fiasco was.

"You know Damocles Belby, The health minister may be moving to Ecuador," said Arthur Weasley.

"Why?" asked Teddy, he was always quite interested to hear about government gossip, Amelie on the other hand seemed quite bored by the impending politics talk and opted to move over and talk to her cousin, Percy's daughter Fredilynne.

"Well," began Arthur taking a quick look round before coming in closer to deliver his juicy gossip to Harry and Teddy. "He wants to go back to his researching roots. You know he invented the wolfsbane potion? Well, research and potion making was always his first love no matter how much his job pays. So he's going to quit."

"Really?"

Arthur nodded and took a swig of his butter beer. "Now I not sure he'll quit immediately. That would be unfair to Kingsley. Where is he going to find someone as skilled as Belby to take over? I mean in an ideal world Poppy Pomfrey would be brilliant. But she'd rather face a herd of centaurs than leave Hogwarts."

"Can't one of his assistants or deputies get promoted?"

"He's taking them with him," replied Arthur, "They all worked for him before, when he was a potion maker."

"So they'll be a couple of assistant jobs soon?" asked Harry. Arthur nodded and Harry smiled knowingly at Teddy who knew what he was thinking.

"Maybe I'll have a word with Kingsley later," Harry with a smirk. Teddy frowned, he'd told Harry he didn't want him helping him into the government but he was too happy to argue. Belby was quitting. He couldn't believe his good luck.