Chapter Fifteen
A/N: I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING THAT HAS TO DO WITH EITHER GLEE OR HARRY POTTER!
Teddy sat down once more and looked at the group of people who were sitting in his living room.
"Alright," he sighed. "Now, one thing that you should know about me is that my entire family is magical."
"Really?" Brittney gasped with joy. "Are there really unicorns?"
"Yeah," Teddy nodded and looked confused at her awed expression. "They don't like boys though. Never knew why."
"Off subject much?" Santana asked with a smirk and watched as Teddy blushed all the way to his hair.
"Another thing you should know," Teddy said, trying to calm down his flush, "is that this isn't how I look normally."
"What do you mean?" Finn asked and everyone gasped as Teddy turned his hair bright blue and grew a few inches as well.
"How the hell did you do that?" Puck exclaimed.
"I'm a Metamorphmagus," Teddy explained. "I can change my appearance at will."
Then, as if to prove it, Teddy scrunched up his face and turned himself into an exact copy of Blaine.
"Whoa!" the real Blaine exclaimed.
"Pretty cool huh?" Teddy asked as he reverted to his original state. "My mum was one as well."
"So she isn't in law enforcement?" Quinn asked with an eyebrow raised.
"No," Teddy shook his head, "she was. She was an Auror—a magical police man/solider."
"What about your dad?" Burt asked and Teddy jumped. The adults had been too quiet for his liking.
"Teacher," Teddy said, thinking fondly of his father—or at least the father Harry had told him about, "well for a year at least."
"Why'd he leave?" Blaine's brother asked. Teddy rubbed the back of his neck, unsure how to phrase the next statement. He didn't want to have everyone running for the hills just yet.
"He had a secret that if it got out, he would have lost his job—the first well paying job he'd had in a while," Teddy said, "according to Harry at least."
"Who's Harry?" Carol asked.
"My godfather," Teddy said and Carol gasped in realization. Teddy figured she would understand first. Adults usually did before kids.
"Oh yeah!" Blaine exclaimed. "You mentioned having a god brother."
"James," Teddy grinned. "Prankster extraordinaire. Just like his grandfather James, my father's best friend."
"Would this be the same James Potter who ran afoul of a mob boss?" Rachel asked. Teddy chuckled.
"It wasn't a mob boss," Teddy said. "It was a Dark Lord out to kill my godfather."
Epic silence filled the room, causing Teddy to chuckle.
"I take it you want the story?" he asked.
"YEAH!" the entire Glee club exclaimed as one. Teddy noted that this had to be the first time they ever completely agreed on something.
"Alright," Teddy chuckled and then pulled a leg up under him. "It was the seventies and throughout the magical world of Britain, there was a foul wizard named Voldemort."
"What kind of a name is that?" Finn asked.
"It's not really his name," Teddy explained, thanking Merlin for Harry telling him all of this history the summer before Fifth Year. "His real name was Tom Marvalo Riddle."
"Well what did Riddle do that was so bad?" Rachel asked. Teddy thought for a moment, trying to think of a way to explain this without going into too much detail.
"He wanted all of the magical children born to non magical people and those who didn't agree with him dead," Teddy said and inwardly winced at the bluntness of that statement.
"Oh!" Rachel gasped.
"Somewhat like a Magical Hitler?" one of the men Rachel was sitting by asked. Teddy nodded, thankful for the government class he was currently taking.
"Now, Riddle was also a hypocrite," Teddy said (fighting hard not to add "like you Finn" as that was too cruel for words), "as he was a Half-Blood. Muggle father, Witch Mother. But the father abandoned him and his mother before Riddle was born."
"That's horrible!" Brittney gasped.
"Yes it was," Teddy agreed. "But I'm pretty sure the guy was twisted due to all the inbreeding on his mother's side of the family."
"The inbreeding?" Tina asked cautiously.
"Oh yes," Teddy nodded. "It's common in most pure-blooded families. All purebloods are inter-related anyway. Some are just more crazy than others—like my Grandmother's family."
"What about it?" a man who had to be Tina's father as she was sitting right next to him asked.
"My Grandmother was a Black," Teddy said. "Well, at least she was before she met my grandfather and got disowned for marrying him. One of only three members of her family to be disowned, I might add."
"What?"
"I thought people only did that in the Middle Ages?" Artie asked.
"The Wizarding World is a combination of the Middle Ages and the current century," Teddy said with a chuckle. "We have a democratic government but we use quills and ink."
"Keep going on with the story!" Sam urged. "You people keep getting him off track."
"Well sorry for wanting more information!" Rachel rolled her eyes at the blond boy. Teddy chuckled again.
"Well, Riddle started to gather followers who didn't mind killing at will," Teddy said. "But there were people who stood up to him. There was a group called The Order of the Phoenix."
"Phoenixes are real?" Brittney asked in shock. Teddy was defiantly getting her together with Luna at some point.
"Yes," Teddy nodded. "Brittney, I'll just let you borrow my copy of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. I brought it with me."
What? He wanted to have something to read when the Muggle work began to bore him.
"Can you get it now?" Brittney asked, and she looked like a little kid at Christmas.
"Sure, if no one minds that is?"
"Of course not Joh—Teddy," Rachel said with a smile. Teddy got up and kicked open his bag. There, at the way bottom, was all his magical stuff—like his wand. He brought it to school with him, but he also kept it at the bottom on weekends in case something like this happened.
"One book," Teddy said with a flourish, handing it to Brittney. "Now, where was I?"
"Riddle," Burt told him, "and the Order."
"Ah," Teddy said and thanked Burt. "The Order of the Phoenix was led by one Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and a bunch of other titles that would take too long to explain."
"That's a long name," Finn remarked.
"Is he your headmaster?" Brittney asked. Teddy shook his head.
"No. He was my godfather's but Dumbledore was killed in the spring of 1997. Well, it was more like assisted suicide as he was already going to die anyway. My headmistress is Professor Minerva McGonagall, former Transfiguration professor and former Head of Gryffindor House."
"Continue with the story Spring Load!"
"Oh yeah," Teddy chuckled. "Well, my father joined the Order with his friends James Potter and Sirius Black. There was another friend, but he was a filthy little rat, so we won't waste our breath on him."
"What did he do?" Mike asked.
"You'll find out later," Teddy assured the boy. "Now, James had a wife who also joined the Order. This was his Hogwarts sweetheart, Lily Potter nee Evans."
"See? It works."
"Only in the Wizarding World, and only because I think there's no divorce there," Teddy told Rachel. "Now the Potters had a young son named Harry, born on the last day of July. Unfortunately, there was a prophecy about the young boy. It stated that he would be the one to defeat the Dark Lord."
"Whoa!" every one of the Gleeks gasped.
"What happened to the Potters?" Blaine's brother asked.
"They went into hiding," Teddy said. "Using a charm which would have made them invisible to all but those who they trusted one hundred and ten percent. Sirius was their secret keeper, but he felt himself too obvious a choice so they switched to the rat."
"Why?" Quinn asked. "If he was so bad as you claim, why not just use your father?"
"There was a spy in the Order," Teddy said. Merlin, how had Harry known all of this? Had his father told him? "Due to my father's secret—which only Sirius, James and the rat, oh and all professors and staff at Hogwarts knew about—regrettably he was thought to be the spy."
"That's awful!" Rachel exclaimed. "He was their friend!"
"They were at war Rachel," Teddy said gently. "In a world where people can change their appearance at will, control the minds of others and even force them to tell the truth with only a potion, they were right to be wary."
"So what happened?"
"The rat betrayed them," Teddy said. "Riddle found their house on October 31st, 1981. Both parents died to protect their son but somehow Riddle failed to kill Harry. He was defeated—at least for that portion of time."
Rachel shuddered. "So, you mean he came back?"
"Oh, he's gone now," Teddy assured her. "Harry got rid of him once and for all the summer of 1998, but to the costs of many lives."
"Hey, why do you always talk about your godfather?" Puck asked. "Your parents sound like cool guys."
Teddy rubbed the back of his neck and looked down. He dreaded talking about this, because in his hope of hopes he wished his parents were still alive. Maybe they were like Riddle the fourteen years after his first attack on Harry.
"They were two of the casualties in the Battle of Hogwarts in the summer of 1998," Teddy said to his legs, not wanting the look of pity. "I was two days old."
He heard gasps and knew what looks would be sent his way. They were the same looks he got when he would go to Diagon Ally.
"Okay," Finn clapped his hands, "weren't we finding out why Jo—Ted left this wonderful world of magic for our boring one?"
"Finn, you're alright sometimes," Teddy said with a grin. That faded fast though. "I wasn't the most popular kid at Hogwarts. In fact, I had zero friends."
"Why?" Quinn asked. "You're a nice guy and you're always decent—even to those who chuck slushies at your face."
Teddy chuckled. "In First Year, I couldn't exactly control my powers yet. You remember that night I got drunk?"
"Barely," Puck said, ignoring the looks they all got from the adults.
"Multiply that by ten."
Puck's eyes grew wide. "Whoa, that must have been crazy!"
"Yeah, the other kids knew who I was because of my father's part in the war. There's a memorial to them in the entrance hall dedicated to all of the victims of the Second Wizarding War."
"That must have been awkward," Rachel said with a smile. "Everyone knowing who you are."
"More like hell," Teddy frowned. "I was already sorted into Hufflepuff, which is open season if anyone wants to bully you, but I was different from my powers."
Everyone was awkward silent. No one could really picture Teddy getting bullied more than he was at McKinley.
"So that equaled having no friends for two years," Teddy said, "until Victorie came to Hogwarts. Of course, it was difficult, as she was two years younger and in Gryffindor."
"You mean you didn't have any other friends?" Tina asked in shock. She'd been there, until Glee.
"Oh, I had my friend Olive Wood but she was in Ravenclaw," Teddy shrugged. "So I put up with the bulling until the end of Fifth Year. It was after OWL's—Ordinary Wizarding Levels—and I was sitting on top of the Astronomy tower. Victorie found me, words were exchanged and we started dating."
"Just like that?" Artie asked. "Lucky bastard."
"We were best friends in infancy," Teddy shrugged. "She almost knows what I'm thinking. Plus her mum's part Veela so she's scary when she's mad."
"A what?" Tina's mother asked.
"Veela, also known as the most beautiful woman in the world," Teddy said. "But when mad they turn into fire breathing birds."
"Oh."
All the guys winced, hoping they weren't too obvious with their crush on Mrs. Weasley.
"Of course, I had to see her in secret," Teddy said. "As her dad is scary and the school has about one tenth of its population as the cousins or siblings of Victorie."
"How many are there?" Kurt asked. Teddy took a breath before responding.
"Victorie, Dominique, Louis, Fred II, Roxanne, Molly II, Lucy, James, Albus, Lily, Rose and Hugo," he told them. "The first three are the children of Bill and Fleur Weasley, the next two are the children of George and Angelina Weasley, the two after that are the children of Percy and Audrey Weasley, the three following those are my god siblings and the last two are the children of Ron Weasley and Hermione Weasley-Granger."
"My god!"
"Yeah, Charlie still hasn't found a girl," Teddy shrugged.
"Wait, so your godfather has five brothers-in-law?" Mercedes asked in shock.
"How'd you figure that out?" Teddy asked, a confused look on his face.
"You didn't mention Harry having any siblings," Sam shrugged. "Easy enough to figure out."
Teddy was impressed—and a little frightened at the same time. Intelligence frightened him—that's why Molly II creaped him out a tad.
"Sixth year was hell," Teddy shrugged, "and two months into Seventh Year, I'd decided I had enough. I'm a legal adult in the Wizarding World, so I left."
"Why here though?" Carol asked. "Why not somewhere exciting?"
Teddy smiled "Because it'd be the last place anyone would look for a seventeen-year-old wizard, even one in Glee club."
"Will you invite Harry to Nationals?" Finn asked.
"I don't know," Teddy shrugged. "Maybe, but he's never heard me sing and I don't want to fight with him about going back again."
"Wait," Santana held her hands up, "you mean you like Lima? It's the middle of no where!"
"But it's the place where I found friends who didn't know anything about me but still liked me," Teddy pointed out. "That trumps magic any day of the week."