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"Sirius!" Harry called in front of the empty portrait. "Teddy's here!"

Sirius appeared in his frame, smiling. "Hi Teddy, hi Harry!" he said. "I was just over at Andromeda's, I saw you picking him up."

Teddy giggled happily, and his hair slowly changed color. It turned from bright blues to bubblegum pink and his face was lit with joy.

"Tonks' color!" said Sirius with his bark-like laugh.

"It means he likes you." Teddy giggled again, but even as he did, his hair turned green. "I think he's hungry," said Harry. He'd seen that color before, and from what he could tell, that's what it meant.

As Harry rushed off to feed Teddy before he started crying, he heard Sirius call after him. Oh well, he thought. He has a portrait in the living room if he really wants to talk to me. But Sirius didn't appear in the living room portrait.

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Two hours, one bottle, three diapers, and an endless amount of toys later, it was 11:00. Naptime.

"Alright, let's go," said Harry, scooping Teddy away from the toy Hippogriff he had been playing with. The Hippogriff flapped its wings and trotted back to the pile of other moving figures next to the chair. Teddy, however, did not seem happy with this idea. Harry watched in slight horror as his preciously pink hair began to deepen in color - red.

And then teddy let out as loud a scream as he could, which was quite loud, and all the figurines scurried for cover.

"It's just a nap," said Harry hurriedly, trying to calm the wailing baby. "No! No, don't do that!" For Teddy had reached for Harry's glasses now, grabbing at his face. He put Teddy onto the sofa, then went and took his wand from the table. "Silencio!" Plenty of people thought that using magic on a baby wasn't good, but Harry didn't often, so he thought it was okay.

Harry took the still wailing Teddy into his arms and started the journey upstairs to his room, where he had set up the crib. He laid the baby into the crib, and waited; Teddy didn't take long to fall asleep once he was in bed. Harry watched as the red drained from his hair, replaced with a brown not unlike Lupin's had been - his natural hair color. He stood there for a few minutes, smiling sadly and wondering what Tonks and Lupin would say if they could see this.

He eventually had to stop doing this however; he had things to do. He read through the Ministry owl in full, which gave him the exact time, place, and dates of Auror training, and the protocol for sick days. Once finished, he glanced over at Teddy, who was still asleep. Deciding this was well enough, he took out the next letter.

Dear Harry,

Happy Birthday! This is for his 14th, right? Yes. I remember 4th year rather vividly. It was the year you wouldn't stop bugging me. I thought that was every year until 7th. 4th especially, though. Which story this time? I was thinking when he first started walking…

We'd been trying to get you to walk for a while, along with Moony, Padfoot, and Wormtail. You just… didn't want to, I think. You were standing up and everything, crawling around, just not walking. The Marauders had just left; we'd been trying to teach you how to walk again. You turn to me and say "Where Foof?" I told you he'd just left, but you said "Where Foof?" again. You'd crawled over to me by now, but it was bedtime and so Mum was about to take you upstairs. I asked you to come to where I was, expecting you to crawl. But you got up, and walked over. Sirius was so disappointed he'd missed it. We immediately forgot bedtime and spent the next fifteen minutes trying to take pictures of you walking. Here's the best one we got.

Indeed, when Harry turned the envelope upside down, it was to find another picture. A baby walked back and forth between his parents, who were both cheering him on enthusiastically. James had his wand pointed at the camera, as though performing a spell to take the picture, and Lily had her arms open wide. She was wearing, yet again, the bright-green scarf Harry thought he had seen somewhere else.

Teddy chose this time to wake up, making a small fuss over where he was laying. Harry thus had to disregard the letter for the time being, and go back to caring for Teddy. As he carried a green-haired Teddy back into the kitchen, he glanced at the clock. It was 11:30. He had 30 minutes until his date with Ginny.

Once Teddy had eaten and been burped, Harry began his frantic rushing around to be ready for his date and to clean everything.

"Accio toys!" The toys flew toward Harry from all directions, bouncing off his body and landing in a pile around his feet. Teddy watched, intrigued as Harry proceeded to bend down and put the toys into a bag by hand.

Ten minutes later, Harry having cleaned as much as he could, he went back upstairs to change. He chose casual Muggle clothes; they were, after all, only going to London to walk around. He stuffed a handful of Muggle money into his pocket (he always made sure to have a decent amount), and cleaned his stood in front of a mirror, attempted to flatten his hair, and gave up within an instant.

At 12:00 sharp, Harry Apparated to Andromeda's house, holding Teddy in one hand, and his bag in the other.

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