Teddy and Victoire were still in Paris. Among Aunt Ginny's things was an account of her and Harry's honeymoon there and they had decided to retrace their steps.
They could not do to any of the Christmas markets, wrong time of the year, but they could visit the open air markets and sample the wonderful baked goods.
Dominique's oldest son, Luc, was a baker. His papa was a renowned chef and he had grown up around kitchens. Luc used only "Victory" products in his baking, insisting that the company his Aunt had founded had the superior goods.
George and Luc were close. They had spent summers trading off visits while growing up. George spoke French like a native. Luc had a daughter named Marie. She was the same age as Jane and Timmy. Marie was also George and Mary's god-daughter.
Marie had her papa and Grand papa's love of food. She had spent her summers on the Lupin's farm since she was small. She was the defacto big sister to George and Mary Lupin's horde of children. Her best friends in the whole world were Jane and Timmy.
She was home on a school break and was showing her Great Aunt and Uncle her favorite markets and eateries. They found their 11 year old guide to be quite knowledgeable.
On the day before she was to return to school she asked Victoire to deliver a couple of presents to Jane and Timmy for her. The smells coming from the boxes almost drove Teddy crazy as they headed back to England. Victoire knew that she had best get the baked goods to the children at Hogwarts before Teddy lost control and ate the contents himself.
So the day after they arrived home Victoire popped over to hogsmede. First she visited the WWW store, now ably run by Trey's wife. (an- Trey is George Weasley's grandson, son of his son Freddy II).
Then, when she knew classes were over, she walked up to Hogwarts. She visited with the headmaster for a bit and then headed to the Gryffindor common room. Jane and Teddy were engaged in a heated game of wizards chess.
The four dozen chocolate chip cookies were a huge hit with the children and their housemates. Timmy carefully wrapped 4 of the cookies for his Grandma to take home to his Grandpa Teddy. Victoire got to sit at the Gryffindor table for dinner and then headed home to her husband. Laughing at how much food her grandson could put away. Besides his fair share of the cookies before dinner he had thirds of everything placed before him. How he was reed thin she didn't know!
Poor Timmy ate so much at dinner that as he and Jane were walking her to the gates he got the hic-ups. Now he was a metamophmagus to, but he had trouble controlling his. His hair and facial features were a dead give away for his moods and feelings.
When he got the hic-ups he morphed with each jerk. He was very good natured about it and it always sent him in to fits of giggles, which made the hic-ups worse. So the last sight of her grandson that evening was he and Jane giggling and heading to the hospital wing to get his hic-ups under control, Timmy's morphs coming like someone clicking a TV remote.
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Teddy's book had been accepted by Al's publisher. The company was very pleased so far. Al and Teddy had the same editor, a nice young man named Phillip. He had seen the wealth of information Ginny had gathered in her lifetime and suggested that Al begin a book about James and Lily. Rose had shown Al the manuscript Hermione had wrote before her death about Her and Ron's love and he had taken it to Phillip. The company was interested in their story too.
All these decades after the fight against Voldemort and the heroes of that war were still popular. Victoire felt that their parents would most likely never be forgotten.
Ray, Rose and Scorpius' son, had always loved quidditch. But an unfortunately aimed bludger had broken his back his second year at Hogwarts. Ray was working on an updated version of Ginny's "Quidditch history" . The three of them had started writing together at the farm before Teddy and Victoire had left on vacation. So Victoire was not surprised to find both Ray and Al there when she got home.
Teddy graciously shared his cookies with them and they had a nice visit before Ray and Al headed for home. George stopped by to let his mum know that it looked as if her favorite ewe would be having twins this spring.
There were letters from Ginny and Dora. Victoire had been certain her two independent daughters would remain 'bacholerette farmers' until the day they died, but was surprised to hear they had met a couple of brothers that had bought the ranch next to theirs and were dating seriously.
This should make Christmas interesting. After the party this year Teddy, Victoire and their brood were heading to Canada to celebrate Christmas there. Even though it was around a half a year away it was the prime topic of conversation among the grandchildren. This news should give the girls' brothers and sister something to talk about!
Boy was their family spread! England, France and Canada. Amazing.
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That night Teddy's had an unusual visitor. Lily was there, but so was Severus Snape. "Lily are you sure that I should be the one to tell him of this time?"
"Sev, you and Dumbledore are the only ones that know the whole picture of that time. Frankly Dumbledore would just confuse him." Lily smiled and Severus gave what passed as his smile.
"Alright I'll do it. At least this will be easier than having to tell Albus about you and Potter dieing."
Lily settled in to Victoire's chair and Snape began his tale…………..
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Cliffy! (Evil grin)
I am sorry I did blow the timeline on the marauders becoming armanigi sp. The bunny has so many ideas he is flooding in to my head right now I just don't have time to stop and fix that chapter. Also the family tree request is a good one. I started it this weekend and then got busy. Until I can work on it and post it I'll try to put in prompts as to how the character is related. Grandma
