Arthur banked the fire with a wave of his wand. The house had certainly been full this Hogsmede Saturday! Teddy, Victoire and their friends had been by, along with quite a few of 'Freddy's Kids'.
Victoire and Teddy had helped whip up a lunch of soup and sandwiches for everyone and Teddy had taken the opportunity to talk with Arthur about the idea of taking a gap year, such as muggles take, after he graduated that spring.
Victoire had thought of it and Arthur agreed with her that giving all parties a year to think things over would most certainly help.
Andi and he had talked, she had admitted that Harry's attack last summer had been the main reason she had immediately said no. It had brought back too many bad memories of nights waiting for word of Tonks and later Lupin.
It was snowing heavily and Arthur had insisted the children use the tunnel back to the school, after checking with Neville of course. Some of the professors used the tunnel on these blustery weekends to get to Hogsmede to apperate home.
It was quite cleaver how Harry had had their end of the tunnel constructed. It came up in to what the American's would call a mud room attached to the back of the cottage. In order to get in to the room you had to have permission from Arthur or Molly.
James and Freddy had found this out, much to their displeasure, when they had tried to sneak out one evening last fall.
Because they neither had their grandparents permission to enter Love Cottage, or Neville's permission to re-enter Hogwarts they thought they were trapped in the cold dark tunnel.
Of course they had no idea that Neville and Arthur had immediately been notified of their presence in the tunnel. The men decided to let them shiver a bit before Hagrid went in and got them. The howlers from their mums and cleaning the fertilizer bins with Neville insured they had not tried that out again.
AN - A lot of this will be familiar to the readers of Teddy and Harry and Ginny.
The wet cold winter had turned to a beautiful spring. Arthur and Molly had watched Teddy board the express back home from Hogwarts for the last time.
They had headed to Germany for a couple of weeks and gotten home just in time for the uproar of James and Freddy getting in to deep trouble for hexing Albus and flying from London to Hogsmede to see Hagrid.
As part of their punishment Freddy was living with them and painting the Hogsmede store by hand.
Though he and Molly had not known about it until after it was all over, there was the trauma of some of their grandchildren being kidnapped. Teddy and Victoire, of all people had saved the day and now most of the children were on George's island safe and sound for the rest of the summer with their mums.
Teddy had decided that he wanted to be there for Albus' first trip on the Hogwarts express and was not leaving until September first.
Molly was gearing up for the school year business and Arthur was preparing for the part time teaching he did each year at Hogwarts and planning to spoil the last of his grandchildren left at home.
This was Victoire's last year and, unless he was totally off the mark, she and Teddy would be making an announcement soon. Since the incident they were joined at the lips besides being joined at the hips.
Another generation fulfilling the destiny so many had died for. Somehow he knew Fred, Tonks and Lupin approved.
AN- Really go read Teddy and the other Teddy Lupin fics I've wrote. He just appeared fully formed for me.