August 29, 2015

Dear Vic,

Sorry if I offended you yesterday. Please tell me what I did wrong so I can fix it.

-Teddy

"Victorie Weasley," I say to Henry, my Snowy Owl. From prior experience, I've learned it's better to just apologize to Vic as soon as humanly possible. I still have no idea what I've done wrong but I really don't want to start my last year at Hogwarts with her miffed at me. Unfortunately, this is my second letter and I've still gotten no response which is not good. Not good at all.

I hear a knock at my door. "Come in!" I turn around to see Harry walking in.

"So, you have a girlfriend now?" Harry greets me.

I grin at him. "You aren't gonna give me 'the talk' again are you? The first time was awkward enough."

Harry rolls his eyes. "When did you start liking this girl? She's got… character."

"She started snogging me at the beach house at the beginning of the year and then…"

"Whose beach house?"

I shrug. "You know, I really can't remember."

Harry sighs. "Do you think James will be more or less of a menace than you?"

"Don't worry Har, I'll teach him everything I know."

"So, how come you didn't tell me about liking Sadie?"

"Oh, we just snogged a few times here and there but nothing too serious. And then she said she wanted to be official and I don't know, I guess I don't have any problems with that."

"Hmm, doesn't sound like you really like her."

"I don't really know her to be honest."

"Then maybe she shouldn't be…"

"TEDDY!" I hear Ginny yell from downstairs.

"Shit, what did I do this time?" I ask Harry.

Harry shrugs while Ginny comes charging through my door.

"Did you even open the letter Harry gave you yesterday?"

"Uh no… should I?"

"YES! Open it. I was just talking with Minerva."

"Harry already told me I got decent grades," I say while shrugging and pulling the envelope out of in drawer in my desk.

"They are better than decent, Ted. I thought you'd check them," Harry says.

As I open the envelope, I feel something bulky and hard, a badge? "This doesn't make sense, Lawrence has been captain of the quidditch team, since last year."

"Keep opening," Ginny urges.

A badge drops onto my desk. "Oh no," I groan.

Ginny is beaming as she watches me while Harry is trying to suppress a laugh.

"Head Boy?"

"HEAD BOY!" Ginny shouts, "I'm so proud of you."

Harry pats me on the back, "Congrats, son!"

I groan again. "Why aren't you happier?" Gin demands while stomping a foot and putting her hands on her hips.

"He thinks it will ruin his non-existent rebel-without-a-cause reputation," Harry explains.

"Are you talking about that stupid article Skeeter wrote about you and Vic last summer?" Ginny asks.

Harry is wearing a huge grin as he watches me squirm. I know my hair is probably turning light pink and my cheeks are probably also pink. I wrinkle my nose and get my skin and hair under control.

"We were actually just talking!" I say truthfully.

"And flirting, with your faces really close together," Harry adds.

I ignore him. "But it's true, ladies like a little danger, they like a rebel, they like…"

"Haven't you been a prefect since fifth year? I doubt you are fooling anyone," Harry quips.

Ginny laughs and adds, "Plus, most women would find being Head Boy very attractive."

I fold my arms and look at Ginny incredulously. "You married a dropout," I deadpan.

"HEY! I'm standing right here," Harry protests while Ginny guffaws.

August 30, 2015

"Wanna see a really cool dive?"

"YEA!" Al and James shout at the same time from their broomsticks.

"Alright," I yell to Lily, "Throw it up!"

Lily launches a tennis ball up in the air just like I showed her. That girl's gotta better arm than some Hufflepuff players.

I take a nose dive on my Firebolt while holding on with my left hand and catching the yellow ball with my right. I jerk the broom up a couple of feet before it smashes into the ground. And the crowd (aka James, Al, and Lily) goes wild!

"Alright guys, time for dinner!" Harry shouts from the backdoor.

I dismount and swoop up a giggling Lily in my arms and make my way to the backdoor. Before I get there, my mouth drops. I watch in horror as Al and James race into the house… on their broomsticks. Oh Merlin, please don't let me be blamed for this. Please don't let me be blamed for this.

I rush in and gently plop a still giggling Lily into a chair.

"Guys! You could have broken something," Ginny chastises. "Do I need to take your broomsticks away?"

Al and James have the good sense to look ashamed as they stare at their shoes. "No, mum."

"Sorry, mum."

"Go wash up for dinner, please," she says giving them pecks on their foreheads.

They scurry off probably feeling lucky that they got off with just a reprimand.

Harry whispers in Ginny's ear. She smiles at him and nods. They start kissing.

"EWW!" I say, being the adult that I am. "GET A ROOM!"

They separate and Harry rolls his eyes at me. "Sit down," he says.

I take a sit at the counter. "You guys aren't going to make me watch you again are you?"

"Harry told me that he was going to buy you the Nimbus 3000," Ginny starts as Harry wraps an arm around her waist. Uh oh, this can't be good but Harry is grinning so maybe not so bad?

"But I wasn't sure if it was appropriate for you." Oh no, I frown.

"I mean you did get Head Boy and straight O's," Ginny continues.

"I got straight O's?" I ask surprised.

Harry throws his hands up in the air. "Yes, you still didn't even read it?"

"Well Professor Chang already told me I got an O in DADA. And she promised she'd write me a good recommendation for a DADA professor apprenticeship at any school. That is, as long as I didn't bomb my NEWTs this year," I explain while shrugging.

"Have you decided which school you want to teach at yet?" Ginny asks excitedly.

"You could teach me!" Lily shouts from the kitchen table giving me a toothy smile.

I smile and wink at Lily before turning back to Ginny and Harry. "Well, there is this apprenticeship where you travel around to all eleven of the Wizarding schools for a year and a half. If I get into that program and do a good job, Professor Chang told me that the year after, I could run the Hogwarts dueling club and teach DADA to First and Second years. And then more years after that if I'm good enough."

"Like father like son," Harry says grinning at me.

I sigh. "I hope so, there's just so much to learn still. I need to be better at non-verbal spells. I'll be a pretty young applicant with no field experience so my skills need to be top-notch."

"Talk to Hermione. She mastered non-verbal spells pretty early," Ginny says.

"Yea, if you aren't working over the Winter Break, maybe we can all teach you some more advanced spells at the Burrow," Harry offers.

"Lessons from the Head Auror, members of Dumbledore's Army, and members of the Second Order? Are you kidding me? That'd be awesome!"

"Alright! Enough about your promising future!" Ginny states while grinning.

"Oh right!" Harry says, "So Gin here, forbid me from buying you a new Nimbus 3000." I groan and look at Ginny who is smiling. She's starting to really enjoy this whole discipline thing.

"Because," she adds, "it's not good enough for my eldest who got straight O's and was just made Head Boy." I grin as she says "eldest." No one can ever replace my real parents or my grandmother but I couldn't ask for a better set of godparents.

I roll my eyes at Gin as I process what she's saying. "Gin, are you not a former professional quidditch player? The Nimbus 3000 is the best on the market right now."

She grins wider, "On the market but I contacted Katie Bell."

No way, no freakin' way! "Katie Bell! The premiere custom broom maker for the Harpies and Puddlemere United?" No freakin' way!

"That's the one, she owed me a favor and…"

Harry pulls out a package shaped like a broomstick.

"NO FREAKIN' WAY!"

Harry laughs. "Open it!" he urges.

My hands are shaking as they hover over the package. I peel back the packaging carefully.

"Why are you going so slow?" Lily asks impatiently.

I finally rip off the rest of the packaging and grin. The handle of the broomstick is an ebony color but it gradually changes to an electric blue color until reaching the broom bristles which are fully electric blue. The handle is glossy and has that new broomstick smell to it.

"This is made with a special wood," Ginny explains, "so it's faster than the Nimbus 3000 but it doesn't sacrifice safety. It will be on the market in a couple of months but you have the first one!"

"THANK YOU, THANK YOU!" I shout while hugging my godparents.

"Thank Gin," Harry tells me while beaming at his wife, "I had nothing to do with this. If it was up to me, you'd have a lame Nimbus 3000."

I hug Gin again. "Promise me you'll stay out of trouble this year? Including the things you don't get caught for!" Ginny says.

"I promise to get into less trouble than you two did while attending Hogwarts!" I declare while grinning.

They both groan.

"I can't wait to tell…" Victorie but she's still mad at me and won't answer my letters. I miss Victorie. "…Lawrence, he's gonna freak!"

A/N: Sorry if this chapter was a bit of a dialogue overload! I first wrote it awhile ago and for some reason I still like it despite the fact that it's basically all dialogue lol.