Chapter 25
"Remus," he looked up from the essay he was grading to see an irate Minerva McGonagall marching up to his desk and till this day, the sight still struck fear in his heart from his student days.
He, however, was determined to remain calm and composed. He put down his quill and sat a little straighter, "Good afternoon Minerva, how may I help you?"
She pursed her lips as she handed him three slips of paper, "I think it'll be better if you read this and one of them is a detention slip to inform Edward's head of house, which in this case is you, that Edward will be serving detention with me for the month,"
Remus raised a brow but nodded nonetheless.
"Remus, I do hope you will take further action with them as a parent on top of what the school does," she said before turning to leave.
Remus frowned, now thoroughly confused as to what Teddy did and why were there two letters?
He opened the first letter and read. It was rather lengthy.
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Lupin, parents of Edward Remus Lupin,
I hope this letter finds you in good health. I regret to inform you that Edward has been involved in activities that the school feels warrant a month long detention from which we hope he will learn his lesson. Prior to this, Edward has been caught participating in pranks of lesser severity but he was let off with a warning, which he did not heed.
Edward's acts of misbehaviour are as follows, in chronological order:
Planting dung bombs under fellow students' beds, chairs as well as toilets
Spiking the drinks of fellow students with puking pasties and heavy love potion
Charming fellow students' parchment with an erasing charm that takes effect a day later
Disguising as various teachers to wreck havoc in dormitories and lavatories
Feeding exploding BonBons to Mr Filch's cat whilst disguised as Mr Filch
House points have been taken and detention will commence from the start of next month. We hope you will assist the school and enforce disciplinary action at home. Thank you.
Minerva McGonagall
Headmistress of Hogwarts Witchcraft and Wizardry
Remus found himself hiding chuckles as he read the letter. He had a fond smile on his face as he reread the pranks again. Some of them would've given James and Sirius a run for their money and they were geniuses, the latter offered by Remus' inner marauder; the same one who participated in some of James and Sirius' pranks. Also, if Teddy did manage to pull off the one with the charm on the parchments as Minerva mentioned, Remus was rather impressed with his spell work and ingenuity.
Of course what he thought would never be told to his son. After all, he had a reputation, as a Professor and father to uphold but inwardly, his inner marauder was grinning with pride.
Back in the days, Professor Dumbledore was more tolerant of pranks and often let them slide and only issued letters to parents when it was serious but Minerva was stricter, even Professor Dumbledore admitted so when Remus taught in Harry's third year. Thus she made it a point to sent letters to parents if the child committed an offense on top of having received multiple warnings.
Remus placed the letter on his desk and opened the second curiously. It read:
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Lupin, parents of Lyall Sirius Lupin,
Remus chuckled upon reading the opening. His younger son outdid Remus himself, earning detention and a parents' letter in his first year. Remus got his first detention in third year and never got his pranks reported to his parents.
As Remus read on, he laughed. It was the same pranks as the ones Teddy did, excluding the disguises but Lyall did more of his own. At the end of the letter, Minerva also warned of having Lyall being exposed and easily yield to bad influences.
Remus chuckled, shaking his head. There was not a doubt in his mind that his two sons have been living up to his fears right under his nose; coming together to wreck havoc in school; despite being in Gryffindor and Slytherin. Even at home as toddlers, Remus thought they derived too much joy in seeing chocolate explode in their mother's face and when they grew older, he had no doubt they would make excellent pranksters together and they did.
Even as he brought the letter home for his wife's perusal, he still chuckled and smiled as she read. After which, she too dissolve into giggles and laughs.
At the end of the day, Remus resolved to only talk to his sons about it the next day, when time had diluted the amusement somehow. It would not do for him to smile or burst out laughing whilst lecturing them.
A/N: Hope you guys enjoyed this short snippet of what Teddy and Lyall are up to in Hogwarts! Thank so much to all the reviewers of last chapter!
Lupinfamily4ever: I'm so glad you got why Lyall's in Slytherin and I hope this chapter adequately shows how the brotherly love comes through despite them being in different houses. Oh thanks for sharing the direct quote! That's such a sweet quote of them by JK rowling nonetheless! Omg if you do write a thesis do let me read it ;) I know what you mean! I always thought they deserves their own book or movie! Hopefully you've enjoyed this chapter too!