Victoire/ Teddy

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To ask a person for his or her favourite colour is to ask a very simple question. Some will answer right away, others will take a couple of seconds, but generally a quick conclusion will be reached. Now, to ask Victoire Weasley for her favourite colour will probably be asking for too much. If you ever asked her at the age of eight she would have answered purple, although a week later she would have picked yellow. If you asked her when she was twelve she would have said red, but she would have answered blue by the time she was thirteen.

But if you ask her now, at the age of 15, she will remain quiet for a moment, hesitate and say that she loves them all, she will say that 'all colours have a special something.'

You may think she'd have a better answer sorted out by now, but the reason for her confusion isn't simple.

By the time Victoire Weasley was four she had already discovered her attraction towards colours, and it was none other than Teddy's metamorphic abilities, what motivated that peculiar fascination.

He can change his features as he pleases, and sometimes it is involuntary, although he learned to control it more than well. His eyes, his nose, even his mouth change responding to his own requests, but what has always fascinated Victoire most is the palette of colours his hair is able to offer. It is very intriguing, and when she was five she found herself more than once standing in front of the mirror trying to change the colour of her own hair. Of course, she never accomplished it and as she grew older she got over it, but she never got over her fascination for all colours, and now, she still cannot find just one to call her favourite.

If you ask her to be more specific, she may start talking about blue.

Conveniently enough, blue happens to be Teddy's most frequent hair colour which, by the way, matches his personality better: calm, smooth, but also strong and dedicated when the situation requires it. The first time that colour caught Victorie's attention she saw it on Teddy's hair. She was so little that she doesn't remember she spent that afternoon chasing Teddy around the Burrow to pull his hair, until he had to bite her arm to defend himself.

She also loves Red, and how could she not? She remembers seeing Teddy wearing a light shade of red more than once when he was a kid, mostly during family reunions, because Teddy always tried to blend in with them when he was little.

She loves yellow as well, for being such a refreshing colour, and whenever Teddy wears it Victorie knows he looks a couple of years younger, for some strange reason. She can't leave out her adoration towards turquoise, for being such a peculiar kind of colour. And green, she loves green, for being so peaceful.

Black, on the other hand, gives Victoire a mysterious, seductive feeling, and there is a very good reason for that. A year ago, during a school visit to Hogsmade, she was on her way in The Three Broomsticks to grab a butterbeer when her attention got caught by a tall man. Her friend Evelyn, pointed out that the man was insanely...attractive, and although she could only see one side of his face, Victoire agreed. But when he turned around, she realized that it was none other than Teddy. His hair was a bit messed, longer than usual and very black. Out of pure shock she dragged her friend out and drank that butterbeer elsewhere. She still doesn't admit that her attraction towards Black was born that same day.

And then there's pink, a colour very rare on grown up Teddy but very common when he was a kid. If pink is the colour of innocence, spontaneity and fragility, to Victoire it means one thing: embarrassment. It is one of the few colours that take over Teddy's head involuntarily. When he was little he couldn't control it. She remembers seeing his hair pink for the first time when he tripped over his shoes once in front of her whole family. His hair went insanely pink, but he learned to control it very fast, so she rarely sees it on him. But still, she's quite fond of the colour.

Just now she is looking at him from the distance. He's studying with his friends, and he must be very concentrated on his transfiguration essay because his hair is turning into a very dark shade of purple. Victoire laughs before walking away, because she knows he hasn't noticed, and he probably won't notice until one of his friends sees it and mocks him about it.

If you ask her why she knows all this, if you ask her why she connects her love for colours to Teddy's metamorphic features she will answer that she knows Teddy since she was born, so it's only natural for her to do so. If you dare to point out that it seems more like attraction or if you dare to tell her that it sounds more like love, she will tell you that you're out of your mind, that it isn't possible, that she knows too much about him to like him, or feel attracted towards him. She'll probably bite her lips, change the subject or leave, because that is Victoire's denial. But sooner or later she will enter reason and she will discover that that fascination with colours is just not normal.

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