Teddy

Teddy was making his way back down the train, his hair dripping, having just said goodbye to Harry. He couldn't believe that this was the last time that he'd do that. Just one more year at Hogwarts. One more year spent in the place where his parents had died.

He didn't think of it in a depressing way. He liked to visit the memorial stones beside the lake, that were dedicated to his parents, and the many others. Each brave person had a stone, and he felt comforted when he visited the stones dedicated to Remus and Nymphadora Lupin. He would be sorry to loose that comfort. However, this year would be his last, before hopefully being able to join his godfather in the Auror department. That was his dream.

He was interrupted from his thoughts by a voice.

"Teddy!" It was Victoire and Molly, both with dripping hair, making their way to their compartment. "Teddy look what Molly got me!" She held up her wrist, showcasing the silver bracelet, with little decorations on it. "Will you give me a charm?"

"Sure!"

"Great. Just picture the charm you want and say Ornamentum Anima."

Teddy thought for a moment, before grinning and saying the incantation. The link he had tapped shimmered, and from it seemed to grow a silver shape. It glowed for a second after fully forming, and Victoire was able to see what it was.

"A wolf?" she said, eyebrows raised.

"What else? It's my patronus. It's my soul animal. What else represents me?"

"Aw, I was just joking around. It's perfect, thank you Teddy. I'll see you later?"

They said a temporary goodbye for the second time in the last half an hour, and continued towards their separate compartments.

First of all, Teddy had to visit the Prefects carriage. He hadn't made Head Boy that year, however, he hadn't really wanted that responsibility. He was already Quidditch captain. He was happy just being prefect. After all, his father had been one, and he liked to feel that he was following in his father's footsteps.

He reached the carriage, and walked in. Euan Selkirk, the new Head Boy gave him a glare. Teddy often found it difficult to get along with this stuck up prat. He was clever enough, sure, but could be a total arse sometimes. A lot of the time. Pretty much every second. Whatever, he grated on Teddy's nerves, and apparently, Teddy grated on his.

One of his mates from Ravenclaw had said it was something to do with Teddy's Metamorphosing. He was jealous of the ease with which Teddy could change his appearance, and also of Teddy's popularity. Teddy was annoyed that he of all people had made Head Boy. Although he didn't want the position himself, he wished it had gone to someone more… likeable.

Mind you, as Selkirk was intelligent and quite good-looking, quite a lot of girls liked him, and Teddy had heard that he often took advantage of this. Why him? The Hufflepuff prefect, a guy named Peter, was one of the nicest guys Ted knew, and from the little he had heard, the Slytherin prefect wasn't too bad either. Either of them would make a better Head Boy than the git standing in front of him. Being Head Boy would not improve his ego.

"Late Lupin," Selkirk sneered.

Teddy's hair flushed red. He couldn't be much later than the others. "My apologies. The corridors were crowded. Obviously having not had instructions to do so, I couldn't use my authority as a prefect to ask them to move."

Peter sniggered.

Selkirk glared even more.

"Well, as I was about to say before Lupin here decided to show up, here are your schedules for patrols. Also, the new passwords for your common rooms." He continued to drone on, none of it very important really. Finally he let them go.

Teddy found the compartment he had stowed his trunk in earlier, which was now filled with his fellow Gryffindor seventh years. Andrew, his best friend, was chatting to Ephraim and Finn, two of their dorm mates, while the other was decidedly wrapped around Kelly Morgan.

"Watch out Aidan, you might suck her face off," Teddy joked. Aiden broke away from his girlfriend for long enough to tell Teddy to do something obscene to himself, before continuing to kiss her as though their lives depended on it.

Andrew laughed. "You all right Teddy? You seem a little… put out."

"Yeah, Selkirk was being an arse," he said.

"How did that idiot get Head Boy?" Ephraim wondered.

"Beats me," Teddy said, sighing. "Oh well, at least there's only one more year of having to put up with him."

"That's true," Ephraim said. "Hey, watch this." He pulled out his wand and pointed it at the kissing couple. He muttered something, and there was a pop. The couple pulled apart, which was difficult considering the fact that Aidan's lips had swollen to three times their normal size.

He began mumbling swear words through his sausage-sized lips, making rude hand gestures at his friend. "BUD EM BACK!" he mumbled.

"Only if you promise to stop making babies in front of us," Ephraim said.

"Don't be an arse," Kelly said crossly.

"Promise."

Aidan muttered something which could have been a promise, or just an inventive swear word.

"Done," Ephraim said, reversing the spell.

"You're a git, you know that," Aidan said. He did however, keep the promise, and resorted to cuddling his girlfriend instead.

"So what've you been up to?" Finn asked, having been quiet throughout the whole escapade.

The boys in the compartment began to describe their holidays, the Quidditch matches, the weeks abroad. Teddy found himself thinking of Victoire again. He had been doing that a lot recently, thinking of Victoire. He wished she was there, something he had never really done on the Hogwarts Express. He had wanted to keep his friends separate, and was also worried that they might think he was sad hanging out with a younger girl.

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