When Remus exited the fireplace and into his dining room Tonks was already sitting at the table waiting for him.
"So, how was the first day? Did it go well? Severus and you didn't fight right? Can you imagine what that would look like to the children? Did Teddy make new friends? What house was he in? Is he happy?"
Remus rolled his eyes at his wife's continuous questions but sat down at the dining room table anyways.
"I think it went very well. Teddy made some friends on the train and he seems pretty happy with them. Roy Mustang and Victor Sage I think were their names. The boys were the talk of the teacher's lounge for a while during the break."
"Why? Are they bad boys? Should we make sure Teddy doesn't associate with them?"
Remus laughed at his wife's constant stream of questions. "I can assure you we won't have to do that. They're fine boys. Just a bit....different.....Roy's a Slytherin an-"
"Is that bad?"
Remus sighed. "No Dora, I'm perfectly fine with Teddy making friends with people from different houses...."
"But there's something wrong."
"........"
"Don't lie Remus, there's something you're not comfortable with. I'm your wife aren't I?"
Remus grinned before fidgeting a bit, "Well. Roy isn't very fond of magic.....but he doesn't look like the boy who'd put his own preferences over others. His brother seems happy with magic regardless of what Roy thinks."
"Why would a boy who doesn't like magic be enrolled into Hogwarts?" Tonks asked sceptically.
"Well, we don't know much about it but the boys are....special...."
"Such as....?"
"Well, there's reason to believe they have traces of phoenix blood in them."
There was a long pause. "....WHAT?!" Tonks suddenly yelled in disbelief. "How is that even possible?! They're human aren't they? "
"I dunno much about it, no one does, but we've been told to be on the lookout for strange traces of magic on them. It's already been established that Vic can fly. We don't know if Roy can or not but I wouldn't be very surprised really.....Minerva's told us that Hagrid was sent to pick them up for Hogwarts and Hagrid found them off the street in some Muggle town. We don't know who the parents are......they're good boys." Remus added as an afterthought.
"Does Teddy know?"
"I doubt it."
"Are you going to tell him?"
"No."
There was another pause before Remus peeked over to his wife and found her grinning.
"What's so funny?"
"Oh nothing. It just seems so ....fitting that our extraordinary boy is the one to make the most extraordinary friends......now tell me.......... was Teddy happy when he got off the train? He wasn't afraid was he? Did you make sure he wasn't afraid? You didn't spoil him with candy did you?"
And Remus rolled his eyes as his wife continued to ramble on with questions about their son's first day of school but he really couldn't help but think:
"Of all the people to be dragged into this it just had to be my son. That figures. We expect great things from you Teddy."
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I know I'm focusing a lot on Roy and Vic but I'm getting there....
