Here's another idea that I'm not sure about. It makes sense to me, but I'm not sure if it will to others. Well, we'll just have to see.
I still don't own Harry Potter or any of its characters.
On September first nearly the whole Weasley family went to platform nine and three quarters to say goodbye to the kids going to Hogwarts. Teddy went too, but more so that he could say goodbye to Victoire then to see off the five kids going to Hogwarts. Victoire wasn't going to Hogwarts anymore, but she was leaving that day. She'd managed to get an into a muggle fashion design school and was planning on leaving after she'd said goodbye to her younger cousins.
After all these goodbyes were said everyone who hadn't gone to school went to Harry's house. Harry and his family lived in large, old house in Godric's Hollow. Whenever the whole family got together they either met there or at the burrow.
The six young children who hadn't gone off to school immediately set off to running around and exploring the large house while the adults just went into the sitting room to talk with each other. Things seemed to be going well for the first half hour or so, but then they heard a terrified scream come from upstairs.
Teddy volunteered to go see if it was anything serious and headed upstairs to find whichever kid it was that screamed. Walking down the hallway upstairs Teddy heard sobbing coming from a room to his right. Teddy entered the room to find eight year old Lucy crying quietly by herself. Teddy hurried over to comfort her.
"Lucy, what happened?" Teddy asks.
"We-we were playing hide and seek, and I was going to hide in the closet, because no one ever uses it, but there-there was somebody already in there." Lucy sobs.
"Who was in the closet?" Teddy asks, thinking it was probably Roxanne trying to scare her again.
"I don't know, but there was blood, and glowing eyes, and it was so scary." Lucy says, "There's something dangerous in there, Teddy."
Teddy was curious now, what could there possibly be hiding in the closet? Teddy had to see for himself. He stood up and walked over to the closet and opened the door. There wasn't a strange someone with glowing eyes in there, but Teddy was pretty disturbed by what he did see in there.
"DON'T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT!" Teddy's yell could be heard through the whole house. When the kids had heard Lucy yell they hadn't thought anything of it, that girl was afraid of her own shadow. But after hearing Teddy's yell, Dominique and the other kids ran into the room that Lucy and Teddy were in…but they weren't the only ones in there.
The kids were all shocked to see that there was a man standing inside the closet. Teddy seemed really bothered that the man was there, but none of the kids could see why, he didn't look too mean or scary or anything like that. He just seemed…disappointed or disgusted or something like that.
It only took a second for Dominique to figure out who the man was, and what was in the closet. Dominique acted quickly and closed the closet door, making the man disappear. It was a good thing she acted quickly, because a second later the adults came into the room, and Dominique was sure that Teddy didn't want the adults to see what the kids had seen.
The adults were pretty surprised by the sight they found. Percy strode over to Lucy and picked her up and started comforting her. He couldn't care less about why the others were confused. Harry was more concerned about Teddy, he didn't freak out often, but when he did, it was pretty bad.
"Teddy, what happened?" Harry asked his godson. The eighteen year old just shook his head and refused to answer, so Dominique answered for him.
"There's a boggart in the closet." Dominique says, "Lucy saw it first, Teddy came to help her, and it turned from her worst fear to his."
"But you faced boggart's in your third year at Hogwarts, and you've always been good at Defense Against the Dark Arts, couldn't you handle a boggart?" Ron asks Teddy tactlessly.
"My boggart changed shape since I last faced them when I was thirteen." Teddy says defensively, "And I wasn't expecting the boggart to be there, it caught me off guard."
"Your boggart changed?" Ron asks, "Well, what did it change into?" Ron just couldn't help but be curious about this. Strangely it was the other younger kids who answered.
"It was a man," Hugo says, "I feel like I've seen him before."
"Yeah, he did look familiar." Roxanne says.
"But I know I for one have never met him in real life before," Louis says, the others nod in agreement.
"Alright, shut it already." Teddy says. He pushes past everybody and heads for the room that he usually stayed in when he stayed with Harry. Everyone was pretty confused by Teddy's actions, except for Dominique. She left the others to being confused in the room upstairs and headed downstairs to the family room where Harry kept some photo albums.
Dominique grabbed the nearest album and started flipping through it, she wanted to double check something before going and talking to Teddy. She finally found a picture that she was looking for, and her suspicions were confirmed. Looking at the picture, Dominique didn't even notice that someone was looking over her shoulder until she heard her younger brother's voice.
"That's him, isn't it?" Louise asks Dominique, he was talking about the boggart man, he was in the picture that they were looking at.
"Yes, that's him." Dominique says.
"But, isn't that…" Louise questions,
"Yes," Dominique answers the unfinished question.
"Why would Teddy be afraid of him?" Louise asked.
"I don't know," Dominique admits, "but I'm going to find out." With that she picks up the album and heads for Teddy's room with Louise on her heels. Dominique strode up to Teddy's door and, because she was feeling nice, knocked on it.
"What do you want?" Teddy asked from inside. His tone of voice sounded normal, but even Louise could tell he was just faking it.
"We just want to talk, so open the door," Louise basically demands, "if you don't then we will show Uncle Harry a picture of what your boggart looks like and you can explain it to him rather then to us." Teddy cursed at the eight year olds stupid genius logic and opened the door to let the two kids in.
"Alright, as I asked before I was so rudely blackmailed, what do you want?" Teddy asks again as he goes over and sits by the window as he was doing before. Dominique makes herself comfortable on Teddy's bed, while Louise was happy to just sit on the floor. Once the three of them were seated Dominique turns to Teddy.
"We want to know why your baggart turns into your father." She says plainly.
Agh, you have no idea how long that took to write, it took forever, and I wasn't even planning on having it be a two part, but then I got to this point and realized that I'm not nearly done with the story so I decided to split it. I will have the next chapter up soon, if it doesn't decide to be a pain in the butt like this chapter was.