#that trainride home is about to be so awkward

[pmpknsoup]

oh okay. goodbye sam

[neighbours-kid]

a few thoughts on teddy lupin

i’ve been thinking about teddy lupin all day and what he means and represents. to me he is everything that is and could’ve been. obviously he is remus and tonks because he is their son. he is a metamorphmagus like his mother and the potential of being a werewolf lies in his dna because of his father.

he is a hufflepuff just like tonks, but he is also newt scamander brought into the 21st century, bringing that adventures spirit and the hufflepuff pride back to hogwarts. he is everything of a hufflepuff cedric diggory was and more, he got to be everything cedric couldn’t because of voldemort, he proved once and for all that hufflepuffs are more than just those who weren’t brave or intelligent or cunning.

teddy is all of the marauders. he is his father, remus, the intelligent, bookish, soft guy, marked by his past. he has his wit and his snark, he has his caring heart, looks out for the little guy and is so incredibly loyal to his people. but unlike remus he did not fear or hate that he could’ve been a werewolf, he is not afraid of what people thought about him. he does not put himself down like remus, he knows who he is and that he deserves to be here.

he is james in his recklessness, in his head-over-heels love for a girl, in his trusting, comforting nature. like james he is a headboy, someone who can be trusted with that position, someone who knows when it is time to step up. like james he might’ve made a habit out of making his hair a great mess. but he is more than james. he didn’t have to grow out of being a jerk like james had to. he was never a bully, he was always the james people talked fondly of and never the james snape remembers.

he is sirius in oh so many ways. he has his charm, the ability to turn heads while walking through the great hall, his sass and his protective heart. he has sirius’ self-confidence, pride, style and swagger. but teddy was fortunate and grew up in a loving family. he is what sirius could have been, if it weren’t for his ancestry. he could be forgiving and loving towards his family. what sirius had found with the potters, teddy always had with the potters too.

he is peter in his loyalty, his support, his underlying cunningness. he was not always conspicuous, often he managed to disappear in the crowd, unnoticed by those who usually saw him. but unlike peter, his loyalty sticks. he is everything peter could have been, the friend who stayed and protected, the friend who’d rather die than betray his best friends. teddy’s loyalty and support never wavers, he never gives up on a friend. he is all of the marauders, always ready for a prank, a plan, an adventure. he would go through hell and back for his friends and family, he would go the lengths wormtail, padfoot and prongs went to support moony.

teddy is harry. his parents died fighting for a better world for him to grow up in. his parents ended what harry’s began. he is everything harry could have been, if he’d been able to grow up with sirius or remus, if he’d known from the beginning that he was a wizard, what his parents died for. teddy is the orphan that harry was, but grew up with a loving grandmother and godfather. teddy knew that remus and tonks died to make his world a better, a safer place. teddy is the child of a war and sometimes that war rages at the surface of him. the injustice of it all bubbles up in moments of anger and loneliness when teddy misses the parents he never knew. but unlike harry who never got to ask, teddy had people all around him telling him the lovestory of remus lupin and nymphadora tonks and the tales of the battle of hogwarts.

teddy is ron, the unwavering friend, always supportive, always there to help and fight at all costs, no matter what. teddy is the ron weasley that befriends harry on the first trainride to hogwarts, he is the ron weasley that sacrifices himself in a battle of human chess, the ron weasley that stands with harry through everything. but teddy is more than ron, not letting himself be jealous of standing in someone else’s shadow, teddy is the man ron strived to be but failed because he never got the recognition he thought he deserved.

he is hermione in his intelligence and knowledge, showing up to hogwarts more prepared than anyone else. he has hermione’s ability to master spells after the first try, he has her wit and her ambitious nature. he read hogwarts, a history. he is interested in the muggle world, improving his magic through that knowledge. but he is more than hermione, knowing when friendship and bravery is more important than studying. he is a natural with a memory like a hundred computers, he never spends a minute more studying than necessary. he is hermione with a photographic memory.

but then he is also the weasley twins. he is fred and george, their inventive genius lives in him. he is so much sometimes that he feels like two people at once. he cares about his family, even though he likes to make fun of them from time to time. like the twins, he is there to create happiness in the darkest of times. he jokes and pranks and surrounds even the saddest people with a bubble of peace and calm and good feelings. he is what we see the twins be in the year with umbridge. he is the caring, loving student who sits with kids younger than him, terrified of teachers or detentions, calming them down, telling them it’s not that bad, it’ll be better soon. helping them with their anxieties. he is the healer i’m sure fred and george were in their own way.

teddy is neville. he is clumsy, keeps dropping things, running into people, embarrassing himself. he is attentive but forgetful, brave but doesn’t always believe in himself. he has neville’s interest in herbology, understanding than plants hold so much more than when you first look at them. like neville, teddy’s lost his parents to bellatrix lestrange and was raised by his grandmother. but teddy has never lived in the shadow of someone. frank and alice longbottom were heroes and clumsy little neville thought he could never live up to their bravery. teddy didn’t have that, even though he grew up knowing the story of his parents and surrounded by the order of the phoenix and harry potter himself. he never had to outgrow a shadow, he could blossom freely and independently. he is what neville could’ve always been, and maybe, after the battle of hogwarts, finally has become.

teddy is also luna. her spiritful nature, her faith in the good in people, her awkwardness, her calm, her unabashed enthusiasm and her loyalty. teddy is the free spirit that is luna loovegood, but he never drives himself in the off like she did. he never intentionally indulges in the image that he is this lone weirdo. he is never loony lovegood. he is the brave, loyal, enthusiastic, passionate luna. luna who cares and fights alongside her friends. he is the luna that accompanies harry to the ministry of magic, the luna that sits with neville after the battle, the luna that wears a lion head to the gryffindor quidditch match, the luna that is a true friend.

teddy lupin is all of these people and so much more. he is the one bringing the war generation back to hogwarts. in this new, beautiful, save world, he is the voice reminding them what they had lost and fought for. but he is also the voice of hope, the voice in troubled times telling them that everything will turn out okay because that’s how we do it here at hogwarts. he is the “everything is fine as long as dumbledore is in hogwarts” feeling of the new generation. he is the sorting hat reminding the students that the best they could do in bad situations, is to stick together, as wizards, as students of hogwarts. he is the healing tears of fawkes the phoenix, the gentle guardian like hagrid, the freedom of buckbeack, the calmness of the great lake.

teddy is the one to say, hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home, and you believe him.