The Gift From Death

Chapter 11: Teddy's Outburst and discussions

5th, August, 1998...

After everyone had something to eat for lunch Harry and Ginny decided to sit on the living room floor with Teddy while he crawled around the room to burn the energy he had after lunch. Soon everyone else was sitting on the sofas and seats in the living room watching Teddy play with his stuffed wolf while crawling backwards and forwards between his floor-mates.

"Teddy," Harry said, "What's your wolf's name?" he asked the little boy not expecting an answer.

Therefore he was quite shocked when Teddy looked at him and said quite clearly, "Wolf," then Teddy looked back down at the stuffed toy and said "Moon." with a jerk of the head that looked suspiciously like a nod.

Everyone just sat there shocked at the words that Teddy had said.

"So your wolf's name is 'Moon'." Harry asked then looked at Andy, "Did you know he could say those words?" he asked her as Teddy started crawling over to where Draco was sitting.

"No. I didn't." she replied, frowning. "Which is odd."

"He must have picked them up somewhere." Lily said. "You were the same way Harry, you would just randomly say words that you heard us saying." she explained.

Molly nodded, "Fred, George, Ron and Ginny did that too. Though I think that was the older three's fault because some of the words weren't ones me and Arthur used a lot." she said as Arthur nodded.

"Like how Ron picked up swear words." Arthur frowned.

"Oop's." Bill and Charlie said.

"That was them." Percy chuckled, "I can remember Ginny picked up a few too."

"She was just smart enough not to use them in front of you." Bill added to his parent's.

"Fred and George had the habit of copying Percy." Charlie commented.

"It was annoying." Percy sighed.

"Probably why we did it then." Fred shrugged.

"Don't forget Teddy could have put the variation on Moony. He must have heard either me or Prongs using it." Sirius added making everyone nod.

"Teddy?" Draco asked with a thoughtful look on his face, "Who's that?" he said pointing at Sirius.

Teddy looked over and said, "Unca Pa'foot." making most people chuckle.

"That's what it's been then." Dora said, "Teddy who's this?" she added pointing to James.

"Unca Pr-on'." replied as though he'd been saying it forever, making everyone smile.

"I know let's see how many people he can name." Ginny suggested making everyone nod.

"Hey Teddy? Who's this?" Harry asked pointing at Minerva.

"Auny Min-nie." he replied smiling making the adults chuckle again, Minerva just smiled at him.

"Who's this Teddy?" Draco asked pointing at Fred and George who grinned at the little boy.

"Unca F-re-d. Unca G'or-g-e." Teddy said slowly, then he added, very carefully, "Tr-oub-le."

"See he's only 6 months old and he already knows you two are trouble." Molly said looking at the twins who smiled back innocently as everyone else chuckled, "Teddy who am I?" she asked.