Thirteen Years Later (2011) \\ The Beginning of Forever and Always \\ WICELA
Disclaimer: I do not own the Harry Potter series nor everything that comes with it. The rights go to J. K. Rowling. The only thing I own is the holes in her stories that I filled with my fantasies.
A/N: Remember how I told you about someone who made a family tree for a million amazing next-gen people? Well, that forum had been closed, so now I'm here and I have to come up with those characters myself (but hey: Andrew is my own character, so perhaps I can come up with some great characters)?. Let's hope my professors won't let me down! Just so that you know: I'm looking on the Harry Potter wiki and there are some interesting names of Hogwarts students I didn't even know existed! So most of the last names I didn't make up. For the first names I'm mostly looking at the names of other students or some "muggle names" which are quite interesting. Hope you like them :)
She was ready now. She was actually ready now. Eleven years old and old enough to go to Hogwarts. Her family had been nervous with her and Victoire couldn't be more exciting. Teddy was a lot nicer to her too, but he told her they probably wouldn't go to the same house, which upset her. She would be alone, a total loss.
"Come on Vic! Let's go!" Victoire was now more nervous than exciting and seeing all those people was rather difficult to deal with.
"But what if they don't like me?" She said. Teddy grinned and she couldn't think of how Teddy had become so…grown-up next to her.
"They will, believe me. Andrew likes you, so why wouldn't they? And besides, if they don't like you, you just have to use your Veela-powers instead!" Victoire rolled her eyes and slapped him.
"Ouch?"
"Shut it, Teddy."
"Language! 'e iz your friend, remember?" Her mother smiled at her and gave her a hug.
"I'm going zo miss you zo much, my darling!"
"Don't cry, Fleur, don't cry. She will return safely, I will look after her!" Teddy said with a smile. Fact was he'd promised her mother more than ten times to look after her, like she couldn't look after herself. Victoire gave her father another big hug and stepped into the train.
"Where are we going to sit?" She asked Teddy and he guided her to an empty compartiment.
"Teddy!" A voice said, clearly relieved.
"And Victoire!" He said after that.
"Didn't realize you were that old already!"
"Shut it Andrew, you're implying that I'm still a baby!"
"I meant it like a compliment!"
"Oh and that wonders why girls won't like him." Teddy laughed and Victoire gave Andrew a strange look. Andrew just laughed with him and plumped down next to Teddy.
"I saw Demetrius and Jack are on the way, but be careful, you're first-buddies Joel and Dayman are coming too, with their whole bunch." Teddy's face fell.
"Who are Joel and Dayman? You never told me about them?"
"I met them in the train when I was on the way to Hogwarts. With them I met Demetrius and Osahar, but they are still kind. Joel and Dayman are a rebellious team and more than pranksters. I did some pranks with them, but when the last one ended in detention, I never wanted to prank again. I mean: not that I'm afraid of detention, but it wasn't until then I realized how much of a bunch of idiots they are. Be kind to them and don't make them your enemy, because you won't end well then." Andrew nodded.
"Yes, they are really…well, their pranks aren't kind or comparable to the pranks your family does. Their pranks are mean."
"Don't ever use your Veela-powers on them." Teddy warned.
"And why not? Perhaps I could win them over with it?"
"Well, you certainly will win them over, but it's very possible they want to do more than only that. You see, they aren't 'just friends' with girls…" Victoire gasped and looked outside the window. This wasn't something she wanted to discuss with Teddy.
"I think I get it." She said.
"Get what?" It was a strong voice. Deep and somehow sexy. Victoire grinned a bit and flipped her hair back. When she saw him standing their, she realized that she recognized him.
"The secret passages in Hogwarts." She said, while she didn't know where the confidence in that sentence came from.
"And who may you be?" Another boy came inside the compartment and both of the boys were sitting next to her.
"Victoire Weasley." She said.
"Weasley, huh?"
"Definitely a Gryffindor than!"
"Tsh, you have already Holly!"
"Holly? Have you seen her? Besides: you have already Crystal."
"Ever thought about I wouldn't want you?" Victoire said, rolling her eyes.
"Babe, you don't know who you're talking to."
"Perhaps you should introduce yourselves to me than, huh?"
"This here is Dayman Krum and I'm Joel Wood."
"Dayman Krum, I know that name. Wait: your father was a Three-wizard Champion, wasn't he?"
"Yes, why?"
"Well, my mother was one too! Fleur Delacour was her name back then!"
"So, you mean I have seen you before with those parties of his godfather then?" Suddenly the attention went to Teddy and Victoire was probably the only one who saw he had to change his face from anger to normal.
"Must be." Victoire said slowly. She knew him. Teddy had been talking to him at a party of uncle Harry's. He had been upset and hadn't told her why. He had become sexy.
"Hey guys, don't forget me!" Victoire turned around to see Joel sitting there with a grin.
"Son of the captain of Puddlemere United!"
"Niece of the ex-captain of Holyhead Harpies, so I don't think we're on the same team."
"My Merlin, niece of Ginny Potter of course!"
"And you surely are a walking encyclopedia?" Teddy snorted loud, but Joel didn't respond to that.
"Guys! Meet my brother Phileas." Another boy came into their compartiment. Victoire recognized him from the picture Teddy had shown her. It probably was Demetrius.
"Demetrius, my friend, welcome back!" Joel said and Demetrius rolled his eyes.
"Thanks Joel, and who might that be? Your new ex-girlfriend?"
"Don't be ridiculous! We haven't even talked properly!"
"So it's Dayman's new girlfriend?"
"Well we had this interesting talk about how we know each other…"
"Guys please! Demetrius, that is Victoire, she's my…euhm…almost-sister, first-year, and Vic, that's Demetrius." Victoire stood up, all the attention of that boys had become a bit too much.
"Phileas is a first-year too, how funny!" Demetrius said.
"Euhm, nice to meet you, but I've to go to the loo!" Victoire said. She somehow reminded herself too about the fact she needed to change. Being there at the bathroom she saw a girl, reading in a book. She was blond, but a bit shy, clearly.
"I'd like to change, so if you please could just go…outside?" The girl nodded.
"First-year?" The girl nodded again.
"Me too."
"At least now I know someone!" Victoire smiled at her.
"Muggleborn?"
"No, halfblood. I'm Olive Clearwater. My mother divorced my father before I was even born. Apparently still in love with a silly secondary-school crush named Percy Weasley." Victoire's mouth was open of surprised and when she realized what Olive had said, she immediately burst out of laughter.
"Wow, didn't expect that from uncle Percy!"
"O, shut it! Me and my big mouth — immediately telling all the names."
"I'm Victoire Weasley, the cousin of the silly secondary-school crush of your father. What's your mother's name? Perhaps I will mention her sometime in my letters — if I will ever write him one, that is."
"Penelope Clearwater, but don't write about her, please!"
"My aunt Audrey won't be happy with that, I think. Uncle Percy is married, you know and he has two children. Don't think he will divorce aunt Audrey for your mother, but I was never interested in my uncle's love life before." Olive laughed with her and Victoire changed her robes quickly.
"Nervous?"
"Well, yes. I have to be in Gryffindor of course, otherwise three-quarter of the family won't be pleased with me. Everyone's bedding of course. Everyone always bed about everything. There is still a bedding-pool from two years ago when Teddy and I will end up together - which is never, just so that you know. I might have liked him when I was seven or so, but now I'm eleven, I'm over that crush. It's still a much less silly crush than your mothers." Olive laughed and gave her a hug.
"My mother was from Ravenclaw, but I'm not as smart as she, so I don't think I will end up there. I'm happy I met you, Victoire, I don't feel so alone right now."
"I'm happy that I met you too, Olive." Victoire smiled.
And she never came back. Teddy would never believe girls anymore when they would say they 'went to the loo'. He couldn't believe Victoire and the way she'd acted. Why was she always so afraid that people wouldn't like her? People adored her. People loved her. They thought she was amazing the minute she was walking into a room. But no, Victoire never believed that and always used her Veela-power, which made her that weird person. The way she acted with Dayman and Joel, — like she flirted with them — made him so mad. Why couldn't she just act normal? If she would continue acting like this, at some point boys would think she was interested in them too, but no, she just was naive. When the rest of the friends of Dayman and Joel finally arrived — including Holly and Crystal - the boys decided to let them sit here in peace, to Teddy's pleasure.
"In which House will Victoire be sorted?" Phileas said, reminding them of how much a first-year he still was.
"Gryffindor, if you ask me." Teddy said honest.
"Her father was one, like every Weasley and she's very brave too."
"Yeah? How's that?"
"Well, when she has a crush on someone, she's that brave that she shows everyone she has that crush." Teddy joked.
"That was clearly visible with Daymar and Joel." He sighted. Andrew was right.
"Are you going to do something about it, mate?" Demetrius asked.
"I'm not sure. I'm not her brother, you know. Almost, that's true, but not completely. Thereby I'm not her boyfriend, so in Victoire's rules I'm not one to speak."
"Well, you're her friend!" Jack said, who had came in just seconds after Demetrius and Phileas.
"We will see, guys, we will see. If necessary Phileas has to become friends with her so I can tell Demetrius who well tell you what you have to tell Victoire to not become someone who she's not." The boys laughed and cheered to that. When they stepped out of the train in the night, Teddy thought he saw the famous blond hair of his almost-sister walking towards Hagrid, but he wasn't that sure. The Sorting Ceremony was only an hour away for Victoire and this would be special. He knew she was nervous, but somewhere Teddy hoped Victoire would be put into Hufflepuff, with him. He knew that was nowhere near possible. Victoire would alone scream about it colors, what more? He was worried about his best friend and this was the first time he really was worried about her. She had been annoying before, irritating, angry, flirting, happy, lovely and friendly, but she'd never gave him a reason before to be worried at her. Victoire always managed to solve her own issues, but this time he was the only one she knew who was around her — ignoring Professor Longbottem and Professor McGonagall. Of course she wouldn't accept his help, but Teddy didn't know how girls worked. Did he had to help when she said she didn't want his help or did he had to mind his own business? Girls like Victoire were strange and difficult. Her nine-year-old sister Dominique was compared to that much easier. It was true he was the only one in the big family who wasn't really family. It was true that almost every girl adored him for his changing looks, but he hated it. Do and Roxy, however, were girls he could play around with. They didn't wear the dresses of a princess with tiaras and everything.
Teddy sat down at the Great Hall, listening to the words McGonagall was saying. There was only one Professor not sitting with the others. Professor Longbottem, who was this year too giving the kids the first tour around Hogwarts. When the big doors opened, Teddy immediately saw Victoire. It wasn't really hard to seek for a girl with long, blond hair. The minute some boys saw her, their mouths opened and whistled at her. Names were coming, like they did when Teddy was standing there as a nervous first-year.
"Blenkinsop, Timothy."
"GRYFFINDOR!"
The boy wasn't really interested in anything and just sat down at the Gryffindor table. As he was the first one whose name was mentioned, he just looked down.
"Clearwater, Olive."
"GRYFFINDOR!"
Teddy saw Victoire clapping and smiling to the girl. How did she know her?
"Paparkis, Phileas."
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
Demetrius was clearly relieved to see his little brother was in the same house as he was and Teddy beat him softly on the back.
"Silva, Emily."
"GRYFFINDOR!"
Everybody was silent for a minute. Emily Silva was of course the daughter of the two famous Quidditch players Tony Silva and Gwenog Jones-Silva. The girl blushed when she walked to the Gryffindor table, where the Captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team congratulated her — or perhaps himself — with her being in Gryffindor.
"Thruston, Myron."
"SLYTHERIN!"
Teddy recognized his last name from his favorite band The Weird Sisters. The boy smiled at the crowd, already loving the attention he had. Professor Longbottem almost needed to send him from the chair, but the boy walked eventually himself to his place.
"Tremlett, Penelope."
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
Tremlett…Donaghan Tremlett of course! He must be her father! She was the child of a member of The Weird Sisters too! Teddy laughed softly when the girl was sitting on his table. And then, suddenly, Victoire was sitting on that chair. She was nervous, but also convinced. The Hat didn't even talk to her that long and she smiled happily when the Hat told her to go to the Gryffindor table. Teddy wasn't sure what to think. Had he lost his best friend now or was it time for the both of them to let each other go and discover the world behind their family?