Tale As Old As 1996

Chapter 5| Memories and Nightmares

"Sirius dies this year in the ministry, Moody dies in battle, Dumbledore dies by the hand of Snape who did it on the order of Dumbledore, and Snape is killed by Voldemort," Teddy said

Snape just nodded and then left his face emotionless as usual.

Dumbledore seemed unfazed by the news, he looked at the clock and said "Well look at the time. I will have to leave for Hogwarts now" he said and left as well.

Moody just said "At least I died in battle" and left with McGonagall wanting to give everyone privacy.

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"So it's all true then?" Mrs. Weasley asked tearfully and Teddy just nodded.

After the introductions were finished, everyone except the Weasley's, Sirius, Remus, Tonks, Harry, and Hermione had left, wanting to give the families some privacy. Everyone who remained spent the rest of the night together discussing the future and how it was like. While a few of them still had questions regarding the war, and the deaths they were told of, no one asked those questions. Instead, they got to know the next generation better. The only clue an onlooker would have that the people inside the cozy living room had received bad news would be Harry cuddled into Sirus's side, or George discreetly making sure he is touching his twin constantly in some way. If anyone noticed Teddy never taking his eyes off of his parents, it wasn't mentioned.

The conversation had started off with simple questions such as, "Does Wood's kid go to Hogwarts?" from Ron which was answered by James with, "She's our captain" this was followed by questions being shot at the future Gryffindor's Quidditch players by the current player's. After telling them that yes, she does make us get up at 5 am to practice even when it's raining, and yes, she is every bit as terrifying as her dad. The Quidditch questions died down.

As the night continued on, so did the chaos.

"So there's this song on an app called Tiktok," James said standing up excitedly on the couch. Al caught the look on James's face when he mentioned Tiktok and internally groaned knowing what James was about to say

"An app is basically something on smartphones that I told you all about. The thing that lets you interact with people or play games" James explained "TikTok is an app where people lip-sync to songs or dance etc. There was a really popular song about Rox on there"

Fred II realized what James was talking about and before James could go on he took over James's spotlight and said "It goes like. Roxanne, Roxanne, all she wanna do is party all night" Roxanne shook her head and facepalmed herself at her cousin's idiocy.

"God damn, Roxanne, never gonna love me but it's all right" James sang, not being bothered by the fact that he was interrupted by Fred II.

Fred opened his mouth to sing the next verse but he cut-off by Teddy

"Ok, ok, I am pretty sure they don't want to hear the rest of the song" Teddy intervened quickly before James got to the next verse. If Mrs. Weasley was anything like the grandmother he had back home, he knew that the Howler incident his Uncle Ron went through would be considered tame when she figured out how frequently everyone in the next generation cursed.

"Thank you Ted," Roxanne said gratefully not wanting a repeat of the Christmas Incident TM

Everyone laughs at their antics. It kept on going like this for the rest of the night. However, after 2 am Mrs. Weasley demanded everyone to go to bed while muttering under her breath about how irresponsible it is for kids to stay up this late. She showed the newcomers the bedrooms they would be staying in. After making sure that all of her children, (including Hermione and Harry), and grandchildren were tucked in, she herself went to bed. Before doing so, she made sure to warn her charge's to not try anything.