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At the end of this chapter will be a list of the weasley grandkids, it will be in birth order and include the parents.
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Chapter 36
Making New Friends, and Running Into Old Ones
"But Daddy, I lke staying with mummy. I don't wanna go to a skoooolllll." Teddy whined as Harry buttoned his spring jacket.
Harry smiled with a roll of his eyes.
"You have to go to school. It is good for you, and you aren't even going today, we are only going to enroll you for September and take the tour for first grade." he replied as he ruffled the fluffy purple hair.
"Well, I think mummy is way smarter then any old teacher. She can teach me way more better." the stubborn six year old muttered as Ginny walked into the room.
She smiled brilliantly, before leaning down and lifting her not so much a baby anymore, into her arms.
"Well I will miss being with you everyday all day too Teddy Bear, but you will like having new friends." she said kissing his nose.
He scrunched his face and crossed his arms.
"I got friends. You, Vic, and Lorcan and Lysander, and Lucy and Molly too, oh and Daddy, and uncle Ron and uncle George, and Charlie, and I guess Dom." he said as if that said everything.
"Teddy, absolutely non of those kids are even your age, Vic is the closest and she isn't even five till next month! And Lorcan and Lysander just turned four and how often do Miss Luna and Mr Rolf get to bring them by? It will be good to get to know the kids that will probably be your year mates at Hogwarts." Harry replied before taking the six year old's hand and pulled him to the fire.
He threw the dust in and waited for the flames to settle down a little.
"Dumledore Academy." he said clearly as he felt one nervous hand grip his and another grab his robes. Teddy hated traveling by floo. He always had, well at least ever since getting lost in the network a few years ago.
As they stepped out into the bright hall Harry used his wand to clean off their robes while they waited for Ginny to arrive. It had been a few months since Harry had been at the academy, since he had already started his training with Kingsley. He had forgotten how much he liked it here. He smiled down at his son who was looking around the pristine white and gold hall in amazement.
"Daddy this place is too big." he said quietly as Harry pulled him forward.
"It won't take you long to get used to it sport, besides I am pretty sure that it isn't a tenth of the size of Hogwarts." he replied as he smiled back at his wife who was following along quietly, allowing the little boy to take in his surroundings.
They walked through the halls to a pair of brightly colored double doors that seemed to lead to a cooridor. Harry pushed the door open and was practically assailed with the sounds of giggling, screaming and laughter. A huge banner hung across the hall that read FIRST GRADE. The walls of the hallway were speckled with posters and pictures drawn by current students. There was a large group of people at the end of the hall all accompanying children that looked to be around Teddy's age. Harry smiled happily at the newest head of the school, she was speaking with some of the little kids gathered around her. It had come as a surprise when Hannah Abbott had applied for the position, telling them she wanted to teach and work with children, just, not Hogwarts aged children.
Harry was very pleased with Hermione's choice for headmistress of the primary school. They had both thought it important that the head be compassionate and friendly, and they knew none better than Hannah, she was with out a doubt one of the sweetest people they knew. They also had decided that the head needed to be able to do magic in case of an emergency.
He saw Teddy quickly take Ginny's hand in his open one as they walked closer to the group. Teddy was surprisingly shy, granted he had only really been around his cousins, he didn't know many other kids his age. And as they tried to keep their lives as private as possible he hadn't been around many other people that weren't close enough to be considered family.
Harry and Ginny couldn't help but blush slightly when the parents around them noticed who they were and Harry got several outright stares and well meaning pats on the back. Teddy looked mildly confused at all the attention his parents were getting but stayed quiet, trying not to attract attention.
As the croud settled down and the steady stream of parents and children arriving slowed to a stop Hannah began her announcements.
"Well first I would like to welcome you all to our school. I am personally going to show you around today and I am excited to get to know those of you I don't already know. The first thing to know, is that each age group is seperated into halls through out the school, and they all have different teachers for their age groups. Each year the children will get more freedoms like switching classes and subjects, but first grade is pretty basic. You will have one teacher for the day, the only exception being when the children start showing signs of accidental magic on a regular basis. I know of three of our 6 year olds that will begin control classes from day one." she said, grinning directly at Teddy, who instantly turned his hair from the vibrant purple to basic blonde to avoid the attention.
She didn't speak much longer and soon began to show the parents and soon to be stundents around the first grade cooridor. They also all got to see which classroom their kids would be in and meet their soon to be teachers.
Harry was certain that Teddy would have perked up and become more talkative as the saturday afternoon wore on. However, by the end Harry had resorted to carrying the youngster around to the different stations in the class. He was releived to see he wasn't the only one, as there were several parents with a nervous little boy or little girl on their hip. He was just showing Teddy the art sation when he heard a familiar voice call his name.
"Oi, Harry!" he turned holding Teddy tightly as he did so.
He couldn't stop the grin when he saw none other than Oliver Wood, holding the hand of a little brown haired boy walking towards him.
"Oliver? Wow, its been ages." he said as he walked forward and held out his hand.
"Yeah, you know with Quidditch and everything, I haven't kept up like I should have. Who is this handsom young man?" he said nodding towards Teddy.
"This is Theodore Remus Potter Lupin, or better known as Teddy." Harry said grinning at the scowl the little boy had given him for using his full name.
"Potter Lupin? As is Proffessor Lupin?" Oliver replied.
Harry nodded.
"The very same, we adopted Teddy here when he was one, I am his godfather." he said with a huge grin.
Teddy shook his own head before laying on Harry's shoulder.
"He's my daddy, I have two." he said clearly before turning his face from the stranger.
Oliver smiled briliantly at the pair of them.
"I bet he is a good one too. Has he taught you to fly as good as him yet?" he said gently.
Teddy lifted his head and nodded excitedly.
"Him and mummy, I gots a new little firebolt for my birthday and I can go really fast, and spin, and I like to throw the quaffle, but I can't ever catch the snitch it is too hard." he rambled at the older man glancing every once in a while at the little boy by his side.
"My daddy plays quidditch! For puddlemore United, he's the best keeper in the world. I like to be keeper too." he said shuffling his feet.
"Mummy is going to play quidditch this year too! For the Harpies, why she picked the girls team I don't know, I told her not to, but I guess she likes them." Teddy replied squirming to be sat down.
"Ah Ted, that was suppost to be a secret there bud." Harry said shaking his head at the once again purple headed boy.
Teddy shrugged.
"Oh yeah, mummy sectretly playes for them, itsa surprise for the other teams." he added.
Oliver laughed as Harry dropped his head into his open hand.
"I'm Ollie wanna go see the books with me?" Ollie said holding out his hand.
Harry felt his hand and part of his heart empty as Teddy pulled his hand loose and ran off to the other side of the room with his new friend.
"Don't worry Harry, I won't tell your secret." Oliver said slapping Harry on the back.
"Oliver, you are the captain of your team, who is there for you to tell?" Harry said bitterly, hoping Gwenog wasn't going to be too mad.
"Well look at it this way, we don't play them till fouth week this season so we would've found out and developed a game plan anyway. But I won't tell the team, so it doesn't get out through the league."
"Thanks. So you have a son? Do I know the Mum?" Harry said with a grin. Oliver nodded and blushed slightly.
"I believe you just might, you know Alicia Spinnet, well now Alicia Wood. We started dating her 5th year, and she didn't do her NEWT year, instead she got picked up by the Pride of Portree, and we got married about a year later, Ollie was born about 6 months later. She didn't have the longest quidditch career." he answered with a rougish grin.
Harry nodded as he chuckled.
"Well it looks like the boys are getting along well, and it appears that the girls found each other on their own." Harry said nodding to Ginny and unmistakably Alicia, who was holding a brunette little girl around the age of three and appeared to be expecting another in a very short time.
"Working on a bigger family?" Harry joked.
"Yeah, I guess. This is the last one though, and it came as a surprise." Oliver muttered as they walked over to their wives.
The list and birth order of the Weasley Potter clan
ages as of this chapter!
Teddy Lupin (6) -HP and GWP
Victoire Weasley (almost 5) -BW and FdW
Molly & Lucy Weasley (4)- PW and Audrey Weasley
Dominique Weasley(almost 3) -BW and FDW
Roxanne Weasley (2 1/2)- GW and Angelina (johnson) Weasley
Lois Weasley (almost 1) -BW and FDW
Fred Weasley (will be born in 12 months) -GW and AW
James Potter (will be born in 14 months)- HP and GWP
Rose Weasley (will be born in roughly 2 years)- RW and HGW
Albus Potter (same as Rose only 5 moths apart)- HP and GWP
Hugo Weasley (Will be born in 4 ish years)- RW and HGW
Lily Potter (same as Hugo, only 1 month apart) -HP and GWP