The year after her brother James graduates, Teddy Potter returns to Hogwarts for her final year. With the Marauders gone, it should be a quiet, peaceful year despite the mounting tensions in the world outside of school.
The problem, naturally, lies...
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For almost two weeks after the Hogsmeade incident, owls show up at breakfast with letters for Teddy every single morning.
She vanishes most of them without opening them, still stewing in her anger and uninterested in reading James' long, rambling apologies. She vanishes Sirius' letters too, because he's doubtlessly spewing the exact same crap as James. When she recognises Remus' handwriting on one of the envelopes she hesitates, before gripping her wand hard and vanishing it as well.
Unfortunately, James has just never known when to quit.
When two days have gone by with no reply from her, owls start to show up outside of the usual morning post — they start showing up at lunch and dinner too, and then during classtimes where they peck at the classroom windows until someone relents and lets them in. James must be borrowing every owl he can get his hands on — she recognises their family owl as well as Sirius', Remus', Peter's, Lily's, Marlene's, Dorcas', and several that she doesn't think she's ever seen before.
At first, her classmates seem to find the whole thing absolutely hilarious. The news of Teddy and James' argument in Hogsmeade had spread through the school like wildfire, although very few seemed to actually understand what it was about — most of the school seemed to have the basic understanding that James had somehow threatened Otto Bagman after he had asked Teddy out, and she had gotten into a big argument with him on the streets of Hogsmeade. The ensuing avalanche of letters had initially been a source of great amusement for all of Gryffindor house, if not the entire school. However, three days in when owls begin interrupting classes and pecking insistently at the windows in the common room when people are trying to relax in the evenings, her classmates begin to get visibly annoyed.
Teddy just continues to steadfastly vanish the letters without opening them, ignoring the owls as they hop around and look at her plaintively, waiting for her to write a response for them to return. James is stubborn, but so is she.
One morning, she receives an enomous basket of Honeydukes' finest chocolate. One enormous slab of chocolate has I'M SORRY TEDDY :( written across it with messy white icing. She considers vanishing this, too, but decides against it. It's her favourite chocolate, after all. She's guessing that Remus must have had something to do with picking it out, though it's undoubtedly James' writing on the chocolate.
Lily writes to her midweek, but Teddy is in a foul mood after James' bloody owl had cannonballed into her cereal bowl and knocked her pumpkin juice all over her, so she vanishes that letter without opening it too in a fit of pique. She regrets it almost immediately, because Lily really has nothing to do with James' idiocy and honestly Teddy has quite missed her, but it's too late.
On Friday, Teddy taps her hard-boiled egg with her knife only to find that the shell has been hollowed out and filled with a letter that has been folded up several times into a very tiny square. Teddy sets that one on fire, which earns her a firm lecture from Professor McGonagall, but the letters continue to show up. She finds some in her schoolbag, in her potions cauldron, in the jug of pumpkin juice she goes to pour at dinner time. One morning she wakes up with one under her pillow. She has no idea how he's been doing it, but it's driving her insane.
