Eleven Years Later (2009) \\ The Beginning of Forever and Always \\ WICELA
Disclaimer: I do not own the Harry Potter series nor everything that comes with it. The rights go to J.K. Rowling. The only thing I own is the holes in her stories that I filled with my fantasies.
Character disclaimer: On an incredible website I saw some couples from Harry Potter together and their kids. It was a whole new generation of names that someone made up and I liked it. I'm not that good at creating new Harry Potter characters on my own, so I used them. Please note that these aren't my characters. The credit goes to overdosed-on-awesome who posted them on Lunaii Dollmaker - The forum. So thank you!
Note: I know this is a short and crappy chapter, but I couldn't come up with more stuff. Next chapter will probably be only about Teddy, because I don't think Victoire's non-Hogwarts-life is that interesting.
The first of September begun with nerves. Teddy was completely packed. He had everything and everyone in the family made him sure of that. His father - or Harry, like he wanted to call him now he was ready for Hogwarts - would bring him, together with his gran. They'd had the most incredible party the day before to say goodbye and good luck. The only thing bothering Teddy was that Victoire wasn't present. Of course she had been quite irritating lately, but she still was his best friend. It bothered him that she - who knew how nervous he was - didn't bother to come to his party. Did she hate him? It wasn't like she had something better to do, because the party was in the afternoon and Teddy knew that Victoire didn't had something to do till October - when she and her muggle friends were reunited again.
"Nervous?" Harry asked him. Teddy laughed a bit.
"Is it that obvious?" Harry smiled at him and guided him to his car.
"I think everyone is nervous at their first day of Hogwarts. I was. Didn't know anything about it, because I'd lived with muggles." Teddy stepped into the car and fastened his seat belt.
"Yeah, but I think…I want my parents to be proud of me, you know? In the stories I heard they seemed to be the most bravest people alive. What if I'm not that brave? Or talented? What if I suck?"
"You won't suck, Teddy, you're an incredible person and you have to believe in yourself!"
"But…but what if they think I'm a freak, because of my looks?" Teddy realized suddenly his hair was blue, as always. It was this time a bit darker than normal, which revealed the negative emotions he had. His hair was always darker when he was angry, worried or sad, but when he was happy, his hair was light. He could change the color and shade, but his emotions would always take over.
"Teddy you're fine! You look fine! I personally think it's cool you can change your looks! Think about Victoire, she likes it too, doesn't she?" He nodded, but this time Harry had let him think about Victoire.
"Victoire wasn't at the party, yesterday." He said sadly.
"Perhaps she had a good reason." Harry answered with a smile.
"Like what?" Teddy asked, but he never listened to the answer. They were there. They were actually at the station. He stepped out of the car and took his luggage with him.
"You have to walk to the wall." Harry said and Teddy was shocked. Of course he knew he had to walk to the wall - Harry had told him plenty of times - but doing it, really running to a wall, was something else. He breathed in and out and walked to the wall. All over the sudden he stood at the right platform.
"TEDDY!" Yelled a familiar voice. There she was, with her dad.
"Surprise!" Her father said with a grin.
"I thought…I thought…" Teddy stuttered, but Harry, Bill and Victoire laughed.
"You didn't thought I would let you go to Hogwarts without saying goodbye? I mean, at Hogwarts you will meet some great people and forget about us, so I thought maybe you wouldn't forget us if we say goodbye this way!" Teddy laughed and hugged Victoire.
"Of course I won't forget my best friend who will attend Hogwarts in three years!"
"Two, if you don't count this one!" He smiled and gave Harry and Bill a hug too.
"Enjoy yourself at Hogwarts, say hi to Neville and don't do stupid things!" Harry said to him.
"Like you didn't do stupid things, Harry." Bill said to Harry and both men grinned.
"Bye!"
"BYE!" Teddy stepped into the train and waved to his family while the train started with the ride. While searching for an empty compartiment, Teddy discovered that almost everyone already had found a place. When he found a compartment with some boys who were probably the same age, he stepped into it.
"Euhm, hi? I'm Teddy and…euhm…the other compartments are already full. Is it alright if I join you?" There was only one boy who actually saw him and reacted.
"Sure! I'm Joel - Joel Wood." Teddy's eyes widened
"Wood? As in the son of Wood captain of Puddlemere United?" Joel grinned.
"Yes, that's me. And you? Do you have a famous last name?" Teddy shrugged.
"It's Lupin. Teddy Lupin." This time it was Joel's time to widen his eyes. The other boys became immediately silent and looked at him with surprise.
"Lupin? As in the son of Lupin the best friend of the father of Harry Potter? As in the amazing soldier who fought in the First and the Second Wizard War? As in the son of Tonks who was a metamorphmagus and died fighting along her husband, during the war? Who was also an incredible Auror?" Teddy was shocked with all the information Joel gave him. Of course he knew everything he said - and even more - but it was actually shocking to hear someone else saying this.
"Yes, that's true. That's all true." He answered and Joel sighed.
"Hey - look out! Your eyes are almost falling out of your head!" Teddy said with sarcasm, because he couldn't handle it anymore. He didn't want to talk about his parents. Joel grinned at his remark.
"FWI: my mother is Alicia Wood. So, now we're even. We know each others parents." Suddenly, all the boys were introducing themselves.
"Dayman Krum." He was the son of the famous retired seeker Victor Krum. His parents moved to England, when his father stopped with Quidditch. Daymon told them his mother always wanted to leave Bulgaria and his father liked England really much when he was there for the Triwizard Tournament and later on with Quidditch games.
"Demetrius Paparkis." His father was a muggle and his mother had been a Beauxbatons student. She'd also seen the difference between Hogwarts and Beauxbatons. He had a bunch full of family members and he was the oldest.
"Osahar Jabari." He was the last one. His parents were wizards at Hogwarts too, but Teddy didn't know them. The boys were funny and Teddy liked them immediately. His nerves were almost gone when they walked out of the train. The sight of Hagrid wiped the last of them away. There was no one who felt that safe as Hagrid. He knew what was coming. The boats, where he would get the first sight of Hogwarts. Walking in Hogwarts, where he would meet his first teacher and then - last but not least - the Sorting Ceremony. In which House would he belong?
The minute she'd said goodbye to him, Victoire missed him already.
"Come, darling. Let's go home." Her father said to her, but Victoire wasn't in the mood. She saw how parents slowly left the platform and how the younger brothers and sisters complained about how much they wanted to go to Hogwarts.
Two years, she told herself. Teddy would be in his third year and then she would go to Hogwarts. Two years, she would survive that, wouldn't she? It was because of Teddy they knew it was two years until Hogwarts, instead of the three years she normally had to wait. The war caused the problem that there weren't enough students, so Hogwarts had made a rule that said that ten year olds could go to Hogwarts too. Victoire didn't get the rule completely, but it meant for her she had to wait two years instead of three and that was enough to know. She'd been partying the whole day when she heard it.
"Victoire?" Her uncle asked.
"Coming, dad, uncle Harry!" She turned around and walked with her father and uncle to her uncle's car, as they used flooing to go to King's Cross station.
"How's work going, Harry?" Her father asked. Victoire rolled her eyes. They talked like they hadn't seen each other for a long time. Uncle Harry said something back that Victoire didn't understand. All that Ministry-talk they did, wasn't something she liked much. Instead of listening, she decided that going to sleep was a far better option.