OK so those of you who were quick enough will know I'm not JKR because I had to go back and change Alicia to Angelina. I had a brain toot. I don't make money from this, because if I did some editor would have caught my glaring mistake for me!
Well where should we wander now?
Teddy 6
April 2005
"Well Ted what does a big boy like you want for his birthday?" Teddy and Uncle Harry were sitting on a park bench enjoying the first weak sun of spring. Teddy's dog, Gog, was romping with a big mastiff. They were waiting for Aunt Ginny to get done with work. After Christmas she had told everybody she was not going to play quidditch and now she wrote stuff about quidditch for the newspaper.
"Well I'd like to go see Uncle Charlie and the dragons, I want a real broom, some quidditch stuff, a television, a Nintendo (Ron had gotten one for Christmas and Teddy had been fascinated), a hippograph, a flying carpet, a box of honey dukes chocolates, Uncle George's new fireworks, a wand, a cauldron, a pigmypuff and a baby."
"Whew! Hold on there! That's quite a list! You know some of those things you can't have, right?"
"But Uncle Harry you work for the ministry why can't you tell them I'm old enough for a wand? Besides if we get a little hippograph it could live in the back garden."
"I tell you what, we can talk to your grandma about going to see Uncle Charlie, the pigmypuff and the television. If you are a good boy you MIGHT get a broom. The hippograph, flying carpet, wand, cauldron and Nintendo are a no go. Uncle George will most likely see to it you have fireworks. Aunt Ginny always buys you quidditch stuff."
Just then Teddy saw Aunt Ginny walking toward them. As the weather was turning nasty, they hurried to number 12 Grimwald place.
Teddy had a wonderful evening with his Uncle and Aunt.
Just before bedtime Aunt Ginny pulled him on to her chair for a snuggle. "Uncle Harry tells me you want a baby for your birthday."
"Uh, huh. Just like Victoire has.
"Do you understand that Dominique is her sister and that, as much as we love you, we can't give you a brother or sister, because we are not your mum and dad?"
"I understand Aunt Ginny. My mum and dad died fighting a bad guy. That scary old witch at Uncle Percy's wedding said I was a poor orphan, alone in the world."
Ginny made a mental note to apologize for hitting George at her wedding.
"I told her I was not a poor anything! I told her I wasn't either alone! I have grandma, I have you and Uncle Harry, I've got lots of people! She said I should feel lonely and sad! Why Aunt Ginny?"
"Teddy sometimes people don't understand love. When your mum and dad died there were a whole bunch of us who fell in love with you and decided right then and there to make sure you knew we loved you and were your family."
"I know that! Grandma calls it our heart family. Grandma says you and uncle Harry are the best parents that my mum and dad could have wished for me to have with them gone. So if you have a baby it would be just like a sister or brother to me. It would be my heart sister or brother."
Teddy wondered why Uncle Harry and Aunt Ginny were crying. Uncle Harry knelt down in front of them.
"Well Teddy my boy do you mind if you have to wait around three months for your heart brother?"
July 2005
Harry was looking at the pictures of Ginny on their wedding day, the Weasleys, Dumbledor's Army, his nieces and Ginny holding baby James were on his desk. Just then Ron wandered in with something behind his back.
"Hermione and I thought this would make a great addition to your collection mate."
Harry smiled as he placed a silver framed picture, of a beaming Teddy holding his heart brother and kissing his head, in a place of honor.
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No angst filled orphan Teddy for me. Sure he will have to deal with not having Remus and Tonks, but I feel like JKR made sure Teddy had the one thing Harry found later in childhood, love.
By the way. Thank you to all who have reviewed so far! I'm on people's story alerts and author alerts! This is just too cool!
I solemnly swear I'm up to no good, no wait wrong line. I solemnly swear to reply to all reviews. Grandma Beth
(BTW if I was to be buried I'd want mischief managed on my headstone. Instead when I get my travel trailer I'm having "I solemnly swear I am up to no good" painted over a map of the united states. I want to see if people get as big of a kick from that as from my van's bumper stickers!)
