Teddy 11, Victorie 9
Teddy Lupin who had this year turned 11 awoke from his sudden sleep. It was cold, but not so cold that he had to put more cloths on over his pyjamas. He looked at the time, 06:00 in the morning. Seriously? Teddy grunted as he put his feet on the ground and turned on the little ligth by his bed. The curtains by the window had not been drawn from the nigth before, and the pink and orange ligth from the sun that was coming up behind the feild's made an entrace into teddys room. Teddy who's turquoise hair went everywhere stood up from his bed and opend the door to the livingroom. Sounds where coming from the kitchen. His grandmother was always an early bird, according to Grandma molly she had begun her days even earlier after her husband, his grandfather had died. She was now doing the diches from the day before and jumped when she saw Teddy fully awake.
" Oh god Teddy, you nealy gave me a heart attack. " She said trying to calm herself down. Teddy took a seat by the dinner table.
" Couldn't sleep." He just said quitely as she picked up her wand and started on breakfast.
"Well i understand that, excited about today? You get to see all youre cousins." She smiled as she handed him a few eggs and some toast. Teddy looked up at her. He didn't know if he should tell her, but chose to anyway.
" I dreamt about them again." He said as he watched his Grandma's eyes meet his.
" The same one?" She asked quitely and sat down across from him with her usual floral mug with tea. He just nodded. Since his parents had died the year he was born under the battle of Hogwarts, he'd never really met them. But he had a vauge memory of their faces. It could have been from an photo he had seen, but the angle was a bit odd. They where looking down at him smiling.
Andromeda just nodded, but changed the subject quickly. She never really liked to talk about her late daugther.
" Harry sent a letter, they will all be at the burrow aorund 05:00pm but Grandma Molly will be there all day so you could come aournd whenever you want to." Teddy just nodded. He was going to spend the rest of the summer holiday with the Potter/ Wealey family. Andromeda was going to spend some time with her sister Narcissa, who she had started to have contact with after the war. The tone between the two sisters had improved since Narcissa had apologised to Andromeda for beeing so cruel to her.
" When do you have to leave? I guess i will go by floo powder?" Teddy asked as he ate the last remaning of his breafast.
" Around 01:00pm, I will send you off first before i leave. Harry said he will take you to diagonally for school supplyes. You've packed everything? The list from school too?"
Teddy just nodded, but smiled thinking about his godfather. He had become a part of the Potter/ Wealey family even tough they where not related in any way, they yelled at him every time he brougth it up.
" Family is not just by blood." His godfather had stated and everyone had agreed with him. It was nice, Teddy tougth to himself and ate the last bit of toast so fast that he forgt how to chew.
Precisely at 12.30pm Teddy had brough all his stuff downstais, put on his jacket and kissed his grandmother goodbye for the year before taking a hand full of floo powder.
" Remeber to write to me weekly, i wanna know how you settle down, and say hi to headmistess mcgonagall from me." Teddy laughed and said yes multiple times before she let go of him so he could step into the fireplace. He trew the powder and yelled
" The burrow." And after a few seconds his grandmother was gone, and he stepped into the lit up livingroom of the burrow pulling his gigantic school trunk out from all the asches.
" Teddy darling." a chubby little ginger haired ( most of it was now grey ) elderly woman came out from one of the doors and threw her arms around him.
" Hi grandma Molly, everything fine?" He smiled as the woman kissed his cheek and had a good look at him.
" You've gotten so big. Arthur, Teddy is here. Come help with his luggage." She shouted out of the nearst window. Teddy could see his Gradfather loking out from the shead in the yard,
before enterig the house also giving him a big hug.
" Youre getting taller boy, I bet you'll be even taller than all youre uncles." He smiled as he took Teddys luggage and guided him up to Uncle Ron's old room. After having so many grandkids they had to rebuild th burrow a bit, all the kids where spread out in the origial Weasley kids rooms. Teddy had to share Uncle ron's old room with James, Albus, Fred and Louis.
It was tigth but never a problem. The four guys looked so up to Teddy since he was quite a few years older, well all the kids did. The only one close to his age vas Victorie who was two years younger and had turned 9 this year.
She and Teddy had been really good buds ever since she was born, so she had sulked a few times that Teddy got to go to Hogwarts without her. Uncle Bill had to calmly explain to his daugther that she would be able to join Teddy in two years.
After the clock had turned 03:00 more of his family had started to arrive. Percy and his family, George and aunt Angelina, who's children ran up to Teddy and hugged him multiple times. At 04.00 uncle Ron and aunt Hermione came. Uncle Ron said like everyone else that Teddy was getting taller and taller by each passing month. Aunt Hermoine asked him abaout what classes he he was most exited for, she really liked charms in her first year.
Then a few minutes later a voice yelled from the fireplace.
" Teddy!" A blond haired girl threw herself at Teddy so he could't breathe for a few minutes.
" Hi Victorie..." He said with a horse voice as he kept trying to get air down his lungs.
" Let the poor man go Victorie." Said her dad Bill Wealey who appered in front of them. " Everything ok Teddy?" He said smiling down at him. Teddy nodded as Victorie let him go. She looked happy as she always did when she was close to him.
" Did you get my letter? I got to fly on dads broom the other day, it was unbeliveble." Teddy smiled as he remebred the photo she had sent with the letter, witch showed her on a broom who flew at the higth of her father's head.
The clock turned 05:00 and the fireplace burned up in green flames. The Potter kids came running out and James who had just turned five proudly showed off his first missing tooth. Harry came rigth over to Teddy and gave him a hug.
" When did you arrive?" Aunt Ginny said as she kissed Teddy on the cheecks.
" A few hours ago, I was the first to arrive." He responded before an angry Grandma Molly asked for help to prepare for dinner outside. They had to sit there because there was no way they all would fit inside. Teddy took his seat next to Harry on his left and Victorie on his rigth. After dinner and rigth about when dessert was put on the table Harry turned to him.
" I tink we'll go to Diagonally tomorrow. Would that be nice? We can also find you a birthday present?"
Teddy looked up at him confused.
" It's not my birthday? And I though you buying me the books I needed for school was suppose to be my present?"
Harry Chuckled.
" That's from all youre other uncles and aunts. They all wanted to help. "
Teddy looked up suprised at his family. They all where now paying attention to their conversation.
" But..." He said confused and they all pushed it over that he desverved the best and its the least they could do. Aunt Hermione even said she would give him a recomended reading list so he could buy some more if he wanted to. Teddy could not feel anything other than happiness at the moment. He felt like he was going to explode.
The day after Teddy had been overjoyed . Diagonalley was amazing and he had dragged Harry from one shop to another to look at the weirdest stuff. He had amlost forgot about school before Harry had to drag him over to Madam Malkins. After they had gotten most of his school supplies it was time for the wand. Teddy got a 10 cm long wand made of cypress, and contained a unicorn hair core. Harry smiled.
" I think youre dad had a similar one to that." He smiles as they went out in the sunligth. " So now the only thing left is youre brithday present. Just wait here." Harry disapeard for a few minutes, and then appeard with... an owl. A white snow owl. Teddy just stood there in total shock.
" You got me him?" He said after a while and petted the young owl's head, which it appeard to like. " Yepp, you always said you wanted one didn't you?" Teddy's hair turned yellow and he smiled up at his godfather.
" Thanks."
Aries, was they name he had chosen to give to the owl. When they returend home evey one of his little cousins wanted to pet it, but the owl seemed botherd by all the attention so he brougth it upstairs. But Aires seemed to like Victorie. Every time she came in he would hoot and show off and waited to be petted. Teddy tried to spend as mutch time with her and the other kids as possible. Because he had to remind them that he would not be back for a few months at leat once a day for the entire week.
A week went by very fast, and even though they all wanted to take him to platform 9 and 3 quarters on the first of september, his Grandmother had to remind them thay they would draw too mutch attention to themselves. So Harry and Victorie where the ones who where allowed to go. Harry showed him how to get a good run with the trolley before he let Teddy through and follwed after with Victorie. As they leaped his siutcase onto the magnificent train Victorie started crying and hugged Teddy.
" Promise you'll write to me?" She shobbed into his jumper that was now getting wet.
" Every week." He said as he hugged her and Harry one last time before jumping on the train. He looked out the window and saw them one last time before the train speeded up and they dissapeard.