#teddy lupin
Lily Luna: Siblings are weird.
Lily Luna: I mean, I’d give my brothers a kidney, but they aren’t borrowing my phone charger.
[Teddy’s seventh birthday party is being held at an arcade]
Narcissa, holding up a minion plushie: I won this ugly yellow toddler. It is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen.
Okay but imagine Draco Malfoy meeting Nymphadora Tonks exactly once when he was 5 and she was 12. With the dark lord and Bellatrix gone, Narcissa wanted to see her sister. So she arranged a meeting in a park with her sister without telling Lucius. They arrive and Nymphadora takes little Draco to sit by the lake so their mothers could talk. Draco is really shy and doesn’t want to be there but then Nymphadora changes her hair and eyes to match his and he’s intrigued. So she starts telling him about Hogwarts and changing her features showing him all the different colors she can do. She can hear her mother and her aunt’s rising voices as they start to argue so she keeps Draco entertained so he doesn’t have to hear the argument. Then Narcissa grabs Draco and leaves, claiming it was a mistake trying to speak with her sister. Nobody ever talked about that day, it was as if it had never occurred.
Years later, Draco Malfoy is walking down Diagon Alley and he runs into the Potters and his Aunt. They were getting things for Teddy’s first year. The minute they see bump into each other is tense. Draco is mortified, he hadn’t seen his aunt since that day at the park. Andromeda held his eye contact with grace only breaking it to glance at his arm. Shame filled him when he remembered her husband and daughter were killed by death eaters. In their stare down they didn’t notice Teddy approach them. Teddy held his grandmothers arm and looked up at Draco and without warning changed his hair and eyes to match Draco. Draco went still as he looked Teddy because in that moment he remembered being five and meeting his only cousin for the first and only time. It was too overwhelming so he fled spluttering apologies to everyone, hoping Andromeda understood what he was really apologizing for. He never mentioned this day to anyone, not even his mother, but he thought about it often.
*Remus and Tonks losing Teddy in a crowded place*
“What does your son look like?”
“Good question”
