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Alright, I don't write this anymore. I wrote a hole book about Teddy Lupin about 2 years ago. Hope you enjoy.

~ Chapter One ~

Returning to Hogwarts

Teddy Lupin was awakened by the ruckus from the outside of the seating compartment. He must have been dreaming about the attractive muggle women on motorcycles. In case you were wondering, muggles, according to wizards, are non-magic folk who weren’t aware of the existence of wizards.

He sighed, looked out the window, and saw a reflection of a rebellious eighteen year-old wizard boy with gingery brown stubble, matching his shorter messy brown shaggy hairstyle. He looked out at the horizon from the moving train, overlooking vast dense forests, and a great view of a far mountain. Looking out at the horizon made him think of his father, Remus Lupin, who used to like to look out at the horizon when he was a student. He had inherited his father’s thinner physique, and his mother’s ability to change the way he looked according to his emotions. Teddy, just as his mother, was a metamorphmagus, another magical humanoid race, which could change their appearance at will, and sometimes changed according to emotion. He didn’t know how but if he got better with being able to change his appearance, he could change into an animal.

At least his godfather, Harry Potter, would tell him he was like his father. When he was just born, Teddy’s parents were murdered at the hands of dark wizards, known as Death Eaters, which were servants of Voldemort, one of the most evil wizards to ever exist. Thankfully, Harry Potter was able to defeat Voldemort, restoring peace to the wizard and muggle worlds. Teddy understood that his father Remus died for the better of the Wizarding world, but he had started to question that. He wondered why his parents would have gone to war, if they had a son who was just born, with the risk of leaving him orphaned. Ever since, Teddy had lived with his Gran, Andromeda.

Teddy saw Hogwarts as a second home, as he had gone there almost eight years. In his Third Year, Teddy had been suffering an emotional breakdown, and had stopped trying in school. He had found it difficult to cope with his parents’ death, and ended up being held back, having to repeat his Third Year. This is when he met Abe and Jamal, who were his best friends. Thanks to Professor Longbottom, head of Gryffindor house, he was able to complete his Third Year with flying colours.

“Blimey, Ted! Last year at Hogwarts!” his friend Jamal Thomas, son of auror Dean Thomas, slammed open the compartment door of the train, and appeared unannounced. He was a really muscular boy, who looked like he was in his twenties, when he was really sixteen. He had stubble, as Teddy did, but his was darker, and more noticeable. He wore thick black glasses, and had a large black Mohawk. “Listen, have you seen Abe anywhere? We need to plan our huge prank for the end of the year feast. I already bought the end of the year package from Weasley’s Wizarding Wheezes.”

Teddy, Jamal, and all of the students on the train were on their way to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, an enchanted school in which teenagers with the ability to conjure magic attend, and take classes involving magic, like Potions, where students learn to brew useful elixirs, droughts, and poisons, or Defence against the Dark Arts, where it is learned to repel dark wizards. The classes Teddy was most looking forward to were Defence against the Dark Arts, and Charms.

Hogwarts School was sorted into four houses, Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin, which were usually sorted by the students’ personalities, sorted by a talking rag of a hat known as the Sorting Hat, which determined the traits of their personalities. Teddy and his friends all happened to be placed in Gryffindor, because of their bravery and courage. He and his friends seemed to get along with the sorting hat, as it was in on most of their pranks. The sorting hat usually sang a cheesy song about the four different houses, before sorting. However, they never heard the Sorting Hat song, since Abe was always wolfing down his food really loud, being the glutton that he is.

Jamal wore a blue Pigmy Puff, a small round puff ball called Mr. T, named after the famous TV star from the 80’s, on his left shoulder, like a parrot on a cliché pirate captain. Jamal had made it so Mr. T. had a blue Mohawk, matching Jamal’s, on the top of his head.

“Damn! I think I missed the trolley when I was asleep. Let me just go grab some liquorice wands and chocolate frogs,” Teddy stood up, opened the compartment door, and headed into the narrow, crowded corridor of the Hogwarts Express, causing Jamal to sit there alone, with Mr. T. on his shoulder. “If I were able to use magic outside of school, I could just use accio candy, and it’ll just be there,” Teddy thought. Wizards under the age of seventeen were unable to use magic outside of school. If they did, the Ministry of Magic would expel them from Hogwarts, their wand would be destroyed, and they would stand trial against the Wizengamot. Teddy shivered thinking of this. If he was tempted to use magic for any purpose, he would lose his power.

“Ted!” Ted turned around, to see a beautiful blonde Gryffindor girl around his age, with fine features. Her most noticeable feature at first look was her fluorescent blue eyes, blue as the lake outside Hogwarts. It was his girlfriend, Victoire Weasley. He hadn’t seen her since June, since they had lived so far apart. She had lived in Shell Cottage, in Scotland, which was really far from his Grand’s, in London. Even by broom, it would be a lot of time to get from his house to hers. They had mailed each other using owl post, but in this case Raven/Owl post, since Teddy had a pet Raven, Moony, which he had used for mailing, and other purposes. Victoire was supposed to be in her sixth year, but she had skipped her Second Year, and ended up in the same year as Teddy, since she was exceptionally gifted in Divination, History of Magic, and Astronomy.

“Victoire!” Teddy could tell Victoire was glowing. As she walked across the corridor, her long blonde mane swayed, smacking the person behind her in the face.

“Your hair’s silky, eh?” Teddy realised the person standing behind Victoire was Abe Froman, an exchange student from Toronto, Canada. He had lived in London for his entire school year, so he could attend Hogwarts.

“Hey, Abe. Long time no see,” Teddy joked. They were practically neighbours, since Abe lived in the next neighbourhood. Abe was a shorter, bulkier boy, who did well in Transfiguration and Care of magical Creatures, but not much else. He was the biggest prankster of the group, and had had an occasional one-liner.

“Oh, hey Abe,” Victoire had a mild French accent, since her mother, Fleur, was of French descent. Her mom was also part Veela, which were an attractive race of pretty much humans, but with a few differences. This meant Victoire was an eighth Veela.

Victoire hurriedly walked up to Teddy, and wrapped her arms around him, uncaring that they were in the middle of an empty hallway where people could probably see them if they were to look out their compartment window, or were to leave their compartment. With her in his arms, he gazed into her deep, blue eyes and thought of the last time he saw her. It was late June, and the last day of school and they had snogged on the train on the way back to King’s Cross station, where the train was accessed. There was a hidden platform in King’s Cross, platform 9 ¾ which could only be accessed by Wizards. Wizards and witches would run their trolley into what looked like an empty wall between platforms 9 and 10, but to wizards it said 9 ¾ on a sign above. They would take trolleys filled with their possessions, and run through the wall, and end up on the platform where the train was accessed.

Slowly, still gazing into Victoire’s eyes, Teddy leaned in, and kissed her passionately, leaving Abe gagging in the background. As he kissed her, because of his passion, he realised that his hair started turning a bright shade of red, like a rose, which some would consider a sign of passion. “Bloody hell, get a room!” Abe exclaimed. This was an example of his occasional one-liners. Teddy couldn’t help but laugh. They started to hear voices and laughs from the compartments. It was obvious that other students had heard Abe’s derogatory comment.

“I love you, just as much as I love Abe’s unnecessary comments,” Victoire whispered in Teddy’s ear, as they had still been embracing. Teddy could tell everyone in the compartments was staring at them, thanks to Abe. As he let go of her, he noticed his hair turn back to its original shade. For a second, Teddy’s hair turned red, as Victoire had pecked him on the lips.

“What in the name of Merlin’s beard took you so long?” Teddy had forgotten that he had left Jamal alone, as Teddy, Abe, and Victoire sat in the seats of the compartment. Teddy and Victoire sat beside each other, across from Jamal and Abe.

“Teddy and Victoire were snogging violently,” snorted Abe. “And don’t think I didn’t see your hair turn red, Teddy!”

“Well, N.E.W.T.S. are coming up…” After Abe stopped having a laughing fit, Victoire changed the subject. Victoire did exceptionally well in school, and had obtained eight O.W.L.S, which were fifth year examinations. O.W.L.S. stood for Ordinary Wizarding Levels, and N.E.W.T.S. standing for Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests. Jamal cursed, since he wasn’t fond of Wizard exams.

“If we want a succeeding job, we need to think of these now, and not just procrastinate.” Teddy unwillingly agreed with Victoire. If he would have acted like Jamal about N.E.W.T.S., Victoire would give him a dirty look. Victoire’s dirty looks were unattractive.

The four spent about half an hour discussing their N.E.W.T.S. They each learned that they were all taking Defence against the Dark Arts, Charms, Transfiguration, and Care of Magical Creatures together. Teddy had also revealed that he was planning on being an auror and that they all wanted to have a Ministry of Magic position, besides Victoire, who wanted to be a Professor at Hogwarts.

Victoire took out a new issue of the daily prophet from a compartment in the table between the seats, as Abe went through the joke kit from Weasley’s Wizarding Wheezes. Jamal’s pigmy puff, Mr. T was jumping around on the table between benches. “INFERNO IN KNOCKTURN ALLEY” Victoire read the headline, and started to read the article:

Earlier last night, a massive fire broke out in Bogin and Burke’s, a popular Wizarding shop in Knokturn alley, causing great damage to surrounding buildings. Borgin and Burke’s was unfortunately burned down, leaving no merchandise in the store. The only thing saved was a bizarre shrunken head. “I have many strange visitors, but minutes before the building caught fire, a strange hooded middle-aged man appeared at ‘me shop. He seemed to be strong with ‘em charms, since he wielded two wands at the same time, one in either pocket. I was unsure what he took, but I know he took something. I tried to catch the hooligan, but he escaped with whatever he took, and ‘me shop set fire,” Says Borgin. It is assumed that dark wizards stole something from the store, and then burned it down to clear all evidence, but it is still unknown what he took. “There is a large possibility that former Death Eaters are attempting to carry on He who must not be named’s legacy,” says head of Auror Office, Harry Potter.”

All of a sudden, Teddy heard a gag, and then a splatter. He looked over, and saw Abe was vomiting across the table, all over the daily prophet Victoire was holding. “What in the name of Merlin’s left saggy- Abe! Why would you eat the puking pestils?” On the other side of the table, Abe was wolfing down the tasty looking, but disgusting, puking pestils.

“Oh, that’s what they were,” Abe finally realised that it wasn’t just regular candy. Teddy knew he should have gotten candy from the trolley. As a fly flew by, Mr. T stuck out his lengthy orange tongue, and snatched it into his mouth. Victoie was enraged, as she whipped the dirty Daily Prophet at Abe.

“Death Eaters are gone, aren’t they? Didn’t they all die…?” Jamal wondered.

“No, Death Eaters are not gone. Most of them are in Azkaban prison, some are dead, and others are reformed, but ever since, the reformed ones are usually mistrusted.” Teddy corrected him. Death Eaters were followers of Voldemort during the first Wizarding war, where Voldemort was killed by a young Harry Potter’s survival against the killing curse, and the second Wizarding war, where it all ended.

“Oh, sorry, I’m not great at history of magic,” Jamal replied.

The students heard a whistle, and felt the train come to a halt. Teddy looked out the window, and saw that they had arrived at Hogsmeade station, in Hogsmeade village, located right outside of Hogwarts.

“You boys get your robes on. I, as head girl, need to make sure everyone has leaves the train safely,”

“Are you sure you don’t want to stay when we get our robes on?” Abe joked. This time, everyone laughed, except for Victoire. This time she was annoyed. Victoire stood up, slammed the compartment door open, and stormed out of the compartment, leaving without saying goodbye.

The three put on their black Gryffindor robes, which were crested with a red badge lion in the middle of a gold lining. Jamal grabbed Mr. T from the table, and put him in his pocket, Abe grabbed the cage where his barn owl Binky, named after a comical bully from a children’s show Abe grew up with, known as Arthur. As this happened, Teddy grabbed the cage with his Raven, Moony, and the three left the compartment. As they left the train, they were unaware of the long, terrible year that they would have at Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

After meeting up with Victoire at the small train station, the four of them started walking over towards the enchanted carriage, which seemed to be pulled by nothing. “Hey, look,” Abe pointed his chunky finger at a group of fourth year girls, who were giggling. ‘They seem to be checking me out,” Abe said, when he obviously knew they were checking Teddy out.

“Whatever,” Teddy mumbled, as they stepped onto the black carriage. As the carriage moved on its own, seemingly pulled by invisible horses, Teddy wondered why it did so. “When I was in the prefect’s carriage, I heard that we have a new Defence against the Dark Arts teacher, Professor Pierce,” Victoire foretold.

“Whatever happened to Professor O’Demus?” they pondered as they wondered what happened to their former Defence against the Dark Arts teacher.

“Not sure. I just know that Professor Pierce is pretty young… she’s about 20, and this is her first year teaching. She attended Beauxbatons School before teaching.”

“Oh, it’s a she,” Abe had started to get ideas, while Teddy did silently. “Hope it’s some hottie,” Teddy thought, making sure Victoire didn’t find out.

“It’s a she… Mallory Pierce,” Victoire said, as the carriage came to a halt, just outside of a large majestic castle, in which muggles just saw as a ruin. The castle was tiled with beige bricks, and was bigger than any building Teddy had ever seen. Teddy could see the Gryffindor tower clearly, where he would be residing, at the bottom right corner.

At the gate of the school, the four of them stepped out of the immense black carriage, led by Teddy. As they proceeded through the gate, they were stopped by a tall, skinny woman, who wore royal blue robes. The robes flowed, like waves in the ocean, and her long white hair was tied back in a gold broach. She looked like she was in her very early twenties, despite her silvery brown hair. “Names please?” but Teddy wasn’t listening. Instead, he was fixated on her mysterious violet eyes.

“I’m Victoire Weasley, and this is Jamal Thomas, Teddy Lupin, and Abe Froman,” scowled Victoire. “I’m going to kill you, Teddy,” Victoire half-jokingly whispered in Teddy’s ear. Abe snickered.

“It’s nice to meet you. I’m Professor Pierce,” she handed them their luggage, and the foursome headed through the gates to Hogwarts.

Teddy looked back, to see that she was using two wands to seal off the Hogwarts gate with some unknown magic, after everyone had passed. Teddy wondered how someone who’s first year of teaching could already use two wands at a time, and use unknown magic, as they headed through the wooden double doors.