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Merry Christmas Everybody

The elevator was packed and Teddy Lupin was finding it difficult to breathe with the amount of people pressed into the cramped space. He closed his amber eyes and counted to ten before opening them as the elevator doors opened onto and hallway with lopsided posters of Quidditch teams. Several people got out and Teddy considered joining them as he knew his 'Aunt' Ginny was in about an article and interview but decided to drop in later.

The elevator doors closed and it began to descend even deeper, the crowd slowly spilling out. Finally, at level two, Teddy was able to breathe properly as he stepped out and began to hurry down the tinsel-decorated hall to the Auror department. He slipped and headed straight for the trainee's room, which was also in the festive season, and his desk where he dumped his bag and pulled and a pale yellow file before heading into the Head Auror's office.

His godfather sat behind his desk, reading over a file and drinking a cup of coffee though he looked up immediately when the door opened, his green eyes training on his face before relaxing when he recognised who it was. Even after all these years he could still get a little jumpy, especially when tired.

'Morning,' Harry Potter said as his godson entered the room, closing the door behind him. He placed the file at the edge of Harry's desk and smiled at him.

'Coffee already?' he asked teasingly and Harry grumbled.

'You'd be into it already if you spent half the night chasing after Edmund Druden.' Teddy winced knowing how lazy and how cruel the man could be. He rarely did any work and he never wrote up his reports accurately. Teddy knew how terribly boring reports could be from his godfather's complaints but also knew how necessary they were.

'You should just fire him already,' Teddy said and Harry nodded.

'He has another twenty-four hours to get the report in or else he is out,' he said wearily before sitting up straighter and looking up at his godson.

'What have you got today?'

'Richin is having us out in a mock field assignment in the afternoon to see how many of us can apply theory to prac. Also, one lecture this morning and then I'm free for an hour before lunch so I thought I'd duck down and see Gin before she left.'

'Ah, have fun with the field work. The first one will either be lots of fun or lots of frustration,' Harry warned him as he got up to pull out another file from the cabinet behind his desk. Teddy glanced around the office, noting the Christmas decorations and shook his head slightly as he noticed the childishly decorated chairs and realised his god-sister must have attacked his office.

On Harry's desk sat several silver-edged frames which held photos of Ginny, Ron and Hermione, Teddy as well as the three munchkins, James, Al and Lily though Al and James were now at Hogwarts Teddy still called them munchkins.

'What time does your lecture end?' Harry asked, snapping Teddy out of his thoughts as he returned to his desk.

'Around eleven-thirty if we stick to schedule,' Teddy said grinning and Harry smiled understandingly.

'How about lunch at twelve then?' he asked and Teddy nodded before hesitating.

'Will Ron and Hermione be there? And Ginny?' he asked but before his question could be answered the door was opened behind them a someone entered talking loudly.

'… and apparently they've realised that the appeal will be scheduled for next week on Tuesday though how they've figured that out I don't know as the appeal is only a rumour to them so how they caught wind I have no idea,' Ron Weasley entered barely looking up from the document in his hands and Harry shook his head.

'Someone must have let slip then,' he sighed as Ron handed him the sheaf of parchment. 'And yes ro and Mie will be there, I'm not sure about Gin though, she may be too busy,' Harry directed at Teddy and he nodded.

'What's this?' Ron asked glancing between the two.

'Ted's joining us for lunch,' Harry said as he scanned the document. Ron grinned which caused Ted to start to have second thoughts.

'Lunch with the Golden Trio, that should be interesting,' he said, 'Should I be prepared for someone pissed off Vampire to barge in or a mother screaming about her son's latest arrest or perhaps several demented hippogriffs to come flying into the cafeteria?'

'Oi we are not that – flying hippogriffs?' Ron interrupted his own rant and Teddy grinned before shrugging.

'You never know with you three,' he said cheekily and Harry smiled.

'We are not that bad,' Ron began to rant and Teddy glanced at his watch before cursing.

'Shoot, the lecture's about to begin. I'll see you at lunch,' he flashed a grin at them before racing out of the office. He hurried back to the trainee's room and wondered what it was he had just gotten himself into.

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