The Talented Potter Girl

Chapter 12 The little Lupin

The best day of my life only got better. Using floo powder my family and I made our way to the apartment where Teddy and Victoire lived. It was in a nice muggle neighbourhood close to where Andromeda lived. Teddy was very attached to her and thus wanted to be close, especially since she was getting older. She'd turned 70 in January, which in wizard terms wasn't very old, but still significant. Once we arrived, my dad, uncle Bill, Granddad Weasley, and Teddy where in the living room. I could hear mum's, Aunt Fleur's and grandma Weasley's voices come out of the master bedroom. I looked at Teddy. He was a mess. His hair kept changing every second as he looked from his hands to the bedroom door and back. His dark eyes looked nervous. I tried not to laugh and walked over to him.

"Teddy." Startled he looked up at me, his hair changing a mint colour.

"Hey Lils, how are…." Victoire screamed and Ted stood up so fast I almost fell over, his hair becoming a light blond like Victoire's. My dad quickly came towards him. He motioned me to sit in the seat next to him, while he tried to calm is godson down.

"Don't worry she'll be fine. She is surrounded by women who know a lot about giving birth and they will help her. Now sit and drink this." He summoned a glass with a clear, pink toned liquid.

"For what?"

"Calms the nerves son. Now drink up."

"Why is it not done yet? She's been on it for an hour!" I'd never seen Teddy is such a state of despair. He looked like a lost puppy.

Looking around the room I saw that Al, Rose and Hugo occupied the couch. Roxanne decided not to come, because she had a lot of essays done on Monday, and knew that she'd see the newborn during Easter. Dominique and Louis had gotten chairs and were sitting with their dad, close to the door. Suddenly the door opened and we heard Victoire's angry screams.

"GET OUT IF YOU TWO CAN'T STOP BICKERING AT EACH OTHER. THIS IS –ARGH-PAINFUL ENOUGH AS IT IS!" and out came grandma and aunt Fleur, both giving each other furious looks, blaming the other for being send out of the bedroom. At that moment Andromeda appeared.

"Grandma." Was all Teddy managed to say before hugging her tightly. She patted his hair that had turned dark blue.

"There, there, Teddy, she'll be fine, I'll go help." She turned to face the just rejected women. "I knew this would happen." Aunt Fleur lifted up her head.

"Et eez outrageous. She eez my daughter, and I can 'elp 'er. I don't need grandmere's comments." With that she stood back up and walked back into the room.

Grandma Weasley looked furious, but Granddad calmed her down and she stayed seated next to him.

"Grandma, stay with me." Teddy managed to say, and Andromeda sat on Teddy's other side on the couch.

We all remained silent for a bit before trying to calm Teddy down. Al and Hugo had brought some Wizard Chess with them to play to pass the time. After half an hour James arrived alone. He nervously looked around the room and then at the bedroom door. Dad summoned a chair for him to sit on.

"Hey Dad, Lily. Teddy you look awful man. This is supposed to be one of the best days of your life." He punched him lightly in the arm to cheer his 'adopted' older brother up, but Teddy took it the wrong way. He glared, his hair changing a dark brown.

"I'll decide that myself, Potter."

"Just saying Lupin, just saying." With that he walked towards Al and Hugo to watch the match. I rolled my eyes and dad caught me.

"We all handle it a different way flower." He said smiling.

"Men are weird, Teddy is having more of a breakdown than Victoire has ever had throughout her pregnancy." Teddy sighed, putting his hands through his hair.

"I am making her go through pain."

"Theodore," Andromeda sat up straighter and looked her grandson sternly in the eyes, "You are over exaggerating. First of all women are build to do this, secondly she also choose to have a child, so stop pitying yourself. You are definitely not helping her this way. Stop being a soaked teabag and be a man. Your mother would be ashamed of you this way." I stared at her. I'd never heard her speak to Teddy this way, but I guess it was the Black in her. In any case it helped Teddy. He took a deep breath and started to relax himself a bit more, his hair beginning to turn his favourite turquoise colour.

"Lily dear," Andromeda turned her attention to me, "I heard you are dating my sister's grandson, Scorpius, congratulations! How is it going?" The room fell silent. Albus and James stopped their chess and looked at me, dad chuckled and even Teddy seemed to be listening.

"Thank you, it's going quite well actually." I blushed and the women smiled.

"How long has it been?"

"Um well officially it's been three weeks, but unofficially…"

"Unofficially it's been more like three months, right Lily." James cut it and I glared at him.

"Stay out of it Jamesie. It's none of your business."

"It is! Who says he's right for you?"

"This is exactly why I didn't tell you, cause you can't keep your bloody nose out of my business."

"You're only sixteen! You're way too…"

"James Sirius Potter don't you dare to bring up my age! You were thirteen when you started seeing Ma…"

"That's completely different."

"You hypocrite!"

"ENOUGH!" Dad shouted. "Lily, sit back down. James you too, and leave your sister alone. Besides you definitely have no right to talk, now make sure you behave or I'll tell your mother about your third year excursions. You told us that was in fifth year." We both obeyed, but I heard James grumble that sounded something like 'black mail.'

"Anyway sweetheart, it's fine and quite fun to have a secret relationship at Hogwarts. I remember all the crazy places Ted and I would go to. I was glad when Bella left school, Cissy didn't watch me as closely as she did, so sneaking around became a lot easier." She sighed softly and I could see her happy memories flow through her eyes. Teddy held her hand. She stood up promptly as another cry was heard from the bedroom.

"Butterbeer anyone?"

The afternoon dragged on with waiting. The people in the living started to get more and more tense. Dad had to give Teddy another relaxing potion. At first we didn't dare to start eating dinner, but once it was past eight, with no sign of the child being born any time soon, grandma decided to make some thick mushroom soup. She and Andromeda switched with mum and Aunt Fleur, so they could eat something too.

"How is she?" Teddy asked mum as she sat down and stirred the soup. She looked tired.

"She's fine Teddy, it's just taking a while, and first births generally take the longest."

"But we are wizards, can't we do something?"

"Haha no, that would be to dangerous. This we have to do the hard muggle way, besides in the end it's not that bad." Dad coughed.

"Sure honey, you were just fine…"

"You were no use to me when James was born, in fact you were worse than Ron."

"If you'd had your wand, you'd have hexed me into I don't know what."

"You would've deserved it, besides it's a Weasley thing. Mum wasn't very calm either was she dad?" My granddad smiled.

"No your mother was quite…explosive."

"So Lily you better warn your future husband." Mum said, winking at me and I felt myself blush.

"Yeah Lily," Dominique laughed, "You don't know what Malfoy births are like."
"The fact they only have one child can't mean much good." Louis joined in and people started laughing.

"Oh shut up…" I muttered under my breath and mum held my hand.

"Don't worry." She whispered.

Suddenly we heard Victoire shout.

"Oh dear, I think it's time!" Mum stood back up and she and Aunt Fleur heading back into the room but not before we all heard Victoire scream:

"MERLIN -ARGH- LUPIN, YOU FU-!" I looked at Teddy he significantly paled, his hair becoming a pale brown. I went over and gave him a hug.

"Hey Teddy," I said and he looked at me. I gave him a smile and made my own hair bubblegum pink. He smiled back doing the same.

"Thanks flower."

We heard another cry, and then the door opened slightly and Andromeda appeared.

"Come in Teddy." He obeyed and we all held our breath as the door closed.

After a few minutes in silence we heard a cry, but not Victoire's voice, but a baby cry. We all looked at each other in joy. I listened more. The cry sounded loud and healthy, one of a baby that was upset that it had left the warmth of its mother.

Uncle Bill had stood up to walk over to the door, but it already opened with Aunt Fleur, holding the now silent baby bundled up in a white cloth. She had a radiant smile on her face, that of a proud grandmother.

"Et eez a boy!" She announced to the living room. "Bill darling, you 'ave a grandson." As Uncle Bill proudly took the boy in his arms we all tried to crowd around to see the new member of the family. I stood close to him, and could his peaceful chubby face, his eyes shut with a cute little button nose. I felt dad putting a hand on my shoulder.

"Come on lets see the parents." He said softly and I followed him into the bedroom.

Victoire lay on the bed with two pillows against her back, making her sit up. Her blonde hair had been braided down her back, but was sticking out in many places. Her cheeks were red from exhaustion but she still had her great beauty and looked as radiant as ever. Teddy sat next to her, holding her hand as he softly kissed her temple. He looked very happy, his hair a vibrant turquoise.

"Victoire, Teddy congratulations!" Dad said and Teddy got up to hug him. I went to Victoire to do the same.

"You ok Vic?"

"I've never felt better Lily. Where is he?"

"Outside. Everyone is trying to see him. What are you naming him?" A secretive smile played on her lips.

"Not yet, I want to announce it to everyone at the same time."

"Victoire!" Dominique bounced into the room. While speaking rapid French she embraced her sister. "Il est si mignon, Vic. Félicitations!" The two laughed and Louis joined them.

"Nous sommes tous si fiers de vous!"

"Merci Dominique et Louis."

Uncle Bill and Aunt Fleur came back into the room with the rest following behind. He walked over to his daughter and bent over to give her a kiss on the forehead.

"Congratulations sweetheart. He's beautiful."

"Thank you daddy." Victoire stretched out her arms to hold her son. Uncle Bill congratulated Teddy. James and Al came to Teddy's side.

"What is his name going to be?" Al asked as he looked at the child.

"I think James is a great name." James joked and Teddy laughed.

"Is everyone here?" he asked looking around the room.

"Well we are missing a few family members but they wouldn't fit in anyway," Rose answered, "so please just tell us!"

"Well then darling?" Teddy looked at his wife.

"Everyone, meet Remus Harry Lupin." Victoire smiled.

I looked at dad. He looked so happy and proud. Teddy faced him, smiling.

"Thank you, son." I could see tears forming in his eyes. I hardly saw my dad cry, so this was a big thing.

We celebrated through the rest of the evening. Uncle Ron and Aunt Hermione also came. Little Remus was passed around, though dad and Victoire both claimed him the longest. Once I finally got to hold my godson I felt at peace. He was so adorable, looking around him with his big brown eyes. His small patch of hair was a dark brown. We'd all waited to see if it had changed colour over the hours, but apparently he hadn't inherited the metamorphmagus ability from his dad. Then again Teddy didn't care, he was too happy about having a child in the first place. However it did give us a chance to talk about the rare ability that I too possessed.

"I remember Nymphadora's and Teddy's hair started changing within the first hour of their birth, it's been three now so the little one probably doesn't have it either." Andromeda stated while looking at Remus in dads arms.

"He could still be though," my mum said. "Lily started showing her ability definitely six hours after her birth."

"Really?" Andromeda exclaimed and looked at me with her dark curious eyes. "That's very strange." I started to feel uncomfortable, I was a metamorphmagus, I knew that, but she started to make me doubt it.

"I am going to go write an owl to Scorpius." With that I left the living room to go to the kitchen. I summoned some parchment and a quill.

Dear Scorpius,

Finally after hours of waiting, Victoire gave birth to a healthy son.

His name is Remus Harry Lupin. Dad was so proud and emotional that Remus was named after him. He does resemble his grandfather though with his dark hair and eyes. He's so adorable when I held him. You two seem to have something in common already for he loves my red hair. For now he doesn't seem to be a metamorphmagus like Teddy, but Teddy doesn't seem to care, he's just so happy. It's very nice to see.

I miss you darling, and can't wait to see you again tomorrow and tell you everything in more detail. Rose took a few pictures so I'll ask her to give me some copies to show you.

All my love,

Lily

Carefully I tied the letter to the waiting owl.

"To Scorpius, Moony, be back soon." And with that I let Teddy's owl loose into the late night sky. I looked up at the stars. Though there was more light pollution then at Hogwarts, they were still quite visible.

Mum had once told me as a child, that when someone died they became a star and looked over us. I always wanted to believe it, that someone my late grandparents were looking over me, same as Teddy's parents. Surely they would feel very proud to have become grandparents. I felt tired and drained as I sat at the kitchen table. As I laid my head on the table and started to drift of to sleep the only thought that passed through my mind was whether or not Nymphadora Lupin could have explained my weird metamorphmagus abilities to me.