Chapter Title: Papa is an Idiot.
Timeframe: Easter Holidays of 2011
Characters Involved: Teddy Lupin and Harry Potter (Ginny Weasley, Luna Lovegood, Daphne Greengrass, Hermione Granger, Ginny Weasley, Seamus Finnegan, and Lisa Turpin mentioned)
Point of View: Teddy, third person limited.
Notes: Rushed this little bunny in between airport breaks and paper writing. I hope you'll enjoy it. Also, if you have questions regarding this 'verse, don't hesitate to PM me!
Disclaimer: Harry Potter and all its contents is owned by JK Rowling.

Teddy knew his Papa was a bit dim, he was a Gryffindor, it was expected (Hermione Granger, not withstanding). But he never thought he'd be a complete idiot.

Life just threw him a lemon.

(Somehow, he doesn't know how to make lemonade from this.)

Papa was getting married.

And not to Miss Daphy.

This was unexpected.

"Wait, wait," Teddy tells Harry Potter, his hands clenching the dark gold tablecloth (it was a compromise, he wasn't going to live in a Gryffindor themed house). "What do you mean you're getting married to Aunt Gin?"

Teddy doesn't know how to handle this. He was a Ravenclaw for Merlin's sake, they aren't the best examples of emotional durability! (Take Aunt Luna for example, that woman is just whack).

"What about Miss Daphy?" He followed up, because no, dammit. His plan of getting Miss Daphy to be his mum will not be ruined by one of his papa's stupid ideas.

"Ted," Harry says, as if he was disappointed by Teddy's words.

Serves you right, old man. Teddy thinks, because he does. He is an idiot and Aunt Gin isn't that right for him.

She doesn't make Papa wake during Sundays to make the special Sunday breakfast pancakes or watch Doctor Who on the telly Papa installed in the sitting room because of a simple snide comment or call him little Kavik and understand all his quirks and nightmares and tendencies to branch out.

Aunt Gin is awesome, okay. She's the star chaser for the Holyhead Harpies, MVP for the past three seasons, billed as the best female Quidditch player in the past decade and has a mean left hook that Uncle Ron always complains about.

But she doesn't understand the sentiment of Harry Potter.

She never has.

She was a good distraction for papa, yes, but that's all she is.

She can't hold his attention for more than a minute if he has a case.

And she nags.

Miss Daphy isn't like that.

She leaves people be, and if she needs something to change, she creates circumstances to pull it off. (But more than often, she simply asks, but that is neither here nor there).

Also, she never treated Teddy like a child. (Unlike all the other grown women in his life).

"Why?" Teddy asks, his voice not betraying the whirlwind of thoughts, but his hair does, it's shifting between straight to curly to unruly to fizzy.

To the untrained eye, it might as well be the wind blowing.

(But Harry Potter raised him since Nana Andy died, and before that he was the man-who-conquered. He notices a lot of things, but not all things).

He sees Harry lean back in his chair, his hand adjusting the frame of his glasses (Raybans now, Miss Daphy got it for him three Christmases ago). He's confident, 'in his zone' Aunt Hermione calls it, it's like he's in Mungo's or in the air, like nothing could do him wrong.

"I love her," Harry simply tells Teddy. It was truth, unadulterated and unblemished.

Teddy disbelieves it for a second.

But then he realises, this is Harry Potter he's talking to. If he asks him if he loves the guy who made his entire life hell, he'd probably say yes too.

So, Teddy rephrased the given statement, "You in love with her?"

Simple, succinct, and enough to make Harry squirm for a moment before in seat. Teddy felt proud, it was confirmation enough.

"Yes," Harry tells him, but Teddy can't be bothered to believe the explanation coming after.

Hesitation is equal to confirmation, Miss Daphy used to tell him when ever she caught a pesky little canine stealing her pastries. (She knew everything, but she didn't push it down his throat like the word of god. It's what made her likeable).

"-understands me." was the only bit of phrase Teddy caught.

Harry somehow misses this.

Teddy feels thankful for small mercies.

"But she's not the only one that does," Teddy says.

"But she's the only one that should," Harry tells him.

Teddy's eyes widen, and it feels like a ton of bricks hit him in the head.

His papa is truly a colossal idiot.

It's a wonder on how he became the youngest chief of a medical department at St. Mungos or even lived long enough to be the Man-who-Conquered.

Then again, Papa had Miss Daphy at Mungo's and Aunt Hermione at Hogwarts so its not much of a surprise really.

But still.

Harry Potter is an idiot.

This makes Teddy Lupin want to laugh.

(But he doesn't, this isn't the time nor place for that sort of behaviour).

So, he settles for something less. "Papa, you're an idiot."

Harry smirks, giving him a conspiratorial gleam. "That is why I'm getting married."

"I don't think you should realize that until after the ceremony," Teddy says.

"Nope, no ceremony. "

"What!? So you're just gonna read the Banns and off you go?" Teddy asks, concerned. Harry Potter does not do traditional, nor does he simply follow the rules. The Reading of the Banns is one of the most traditional aspects of wizarding marriage, hell, it is the wizarding marriage.

It combines not only the assets or the lives of the couple in question, but also their magic and soul.

There is a reason Wizarding society does not have a legal procedure for divorce nor annulment.

It simply won't happen.

Magic has a way of making sure of it.

Now, Harry Potter would be entering it two feet in.

Teddy feels light-headed, not only will his papa not marry his surrogate mother but do a traditional marriage.

This is not good. (And absolutely distracting, he has a thirteen inch essay on the History of the Fidelus Charm for DADA and he's being bothered on how to save his father's life).

"Nope." Harry replies.

"Nope, what?" Teddy says distractedly, he was off to his mind palace again. Trying to find a clue on how to change his papa's mind on the Banns thingy. It simply won't do. (Also, its a one time thing. If you don't like the other person you did it with, sorry, but you're stuck with them forever. See: Uncle Seamus and Aunt Lisa).

"Nope on the Banns, little Kavik."

"Then how the hell will you get married?" Teddy is a bit confused now, because Harry said there will be no ceremony so that meant a simple reading, but then he says no to that as well, so how in Merlin's name?

"Muggle Courthouse."

"Oh."

And it was like the skies opened in all its glory. Muggle weddings have no sway whatsoever in the Wizarding World; it's a mere statement.

There will be no financial tie ups, no magical bondings, and best of all, no outright recognition on Wizengamot court.

Teddy takes back whatever he said about his papa being a colossal idiot. (He still thinks Harry is an idiot, just not a colossal one anymore).

"Why?"

"As you said, I'm an idiot, little Kavik."

There's that moniker and somehow, this wasn't his papa comforting him.

He smiles.

Teddy Lupin still thinks his papa, Harry Potter is an idiot, but now, he could write the DADA essay without wanting to rip the entire library to shreds.

Thank Merlin his father has smart women to keep him grounded.

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