The Cursed Child remimagined

Chapter 8

Victorie Weasley and Devan Finnigan are together.

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Remus was sad to be leaving Hogwarts for Christmas, mostly because he didn't want to leave Scorpius. Things had been weird between the two since the whole Rose thing, but Remus thought they just needed a little more time to sort it all out. Currently he was stood outside The Burrow, having just arrived. James and Teddy were holding hands trying to keep warm. Roxanne and Rose were having a lengthy discussion about god knows what. Dominique and Fred were asking Louis about how his first year at Hogwarts had been. Louis had been sorted into Slytherin, which had been a great surprise to everyone.Though it was good because it meant that Remus got to have his cousin in his house. The group stood there freezing waiting for someone to open the door.

Then the door swung open, revealing Molly Weasley. She looked the same as ever, though a few grey streaks littered her ginger hair. "Come in dears,you must be shivering." She said kindly. Remus stepped into the warm home. Lily came running over to him and hugged him tightly around the waist. Then she ran to James, who picked her up and squeezed her affectionately. Remus saw Victorie and Devan already in the kitchen. They'd both left Hogwarts two years ago and were planning on moving to Wales together. Victorie was going to work at the Welsh Green Sanctuary, and Devan was going to write his book 'Muggle Things and How To Use Them'. This was giving a lot to talk about with Mr Weasley, meaning the two were deep in conversation. On the other side of the room Victorie and Charlie were rather animatedly discussing the best way to care for a Hungarian Horntail. Remus looked around the home, all the sadness he had about leaving Hogwarts was gone.

It was later on in the day now, more people had arrived. Percy had come back from America for Christmas, bringing his wife, Molly and Lucy with him. Molly and Lucy were the cousins Remus saw the least, seeing as they went to Illvermorny. He was worried it might be awkward, but they seemed it to fit in just fine. He turned to find someone to talk to, and saw Dominique sitting alone. Bill had just left her to speak to Percy. He hadn't really spoken to Dominique much at school, with her being the year above, but they always tend to get along really well. They talked mostly about school, Dominique kept going back to Dai Flint-Wood who kept teasing her during Slytherin and Gryffindor games. Remus saw the look on her face, and realised its the same one he wore when talking about Scorpius. He smiled to himself, thinking that the two girls would make a cute couple. For the first time since they'd arrived, he'd started thinking about Scorpius,he wondered what he was doing right now. Remus knew that Scorpius was going home as well. He also knew that he was extremely excited to be spending it with Andromeda for the first time. He hadn't stopped going on about how cool she was. Narcissa and Andromeda hadn't spoken since the war, until last year. The two sisters had now nearly mended their relationship. He wondered why Teddy wasn't with them. However looking over to where James seemed to have fallen asleep in Teddy's arms, who was looking down at James clearly in love, he could see the reason.

"Hey." Someone said making Remus look up, only to realise it was his Dad talking to him. "Hi Dad." He replied, genuinely happy to see him. "Is school getting better?" Remus nodded, but then remembered the weirdness between him and Scorpius. There is uh there is something." He added quietly. "What is it?" Harry asked slightly concerned. "Oh no it's just something happened between me and Scorpius." He said blushing. "I take it you don't want to talk about it." He shook his head feeling embarrassed. "Alright darling, is everything else okay?" "Yeah, thank you Dad." Remus said truly meaning it. Harry smiled at his son, before going to talk to James who had just woken up. Mrs Weasley had put on a Christmas song, and she'd started to make dinner getting Ginny and Bill to help her. She probably would've gotten Fleur to help her as well, but she was too busy making Christmas jumpers. Her and Molly and begun to make them together, strengthening the relationship between them. He could hear Mrs Weasley ordering the other two around, it seemed their methods weren't up to standards. Honestly Remus wan't surprised, his mum never cooked at home. He'd seen her burn water! His dad was the favoured chef with good reason.

The family sat down to enjoy dinner, the table had been magically enlarged to fit them all in. Remus was squashed in between James and Hugo. Hugo was talking across the table to Lily and Charlie, who was sharing stories about Romania, obviously fascinating the two nine year olds. James however was holding hands with Teddy under the table and asking the twins about Illvermorny, which sounded no where near as good as Hogwarts. "So boys, when did this start?" Percy asked, talking to James and Teddy. James looked panicked the way he always did when someone asked about their relationship. He was always scared of not being accepted. Remus was thankful when Teddy placed a reassuring arm around James and took over for him. "It's been almost six months, hasn't it love?" Teddy said, looking at James who nodded in confirmation. Percy smiled at the two, as if giving approval, before looking affectionately at Audrey. She laughed kindly at him. "So how is Hogwarts then?" She asked in her thick Southern drawl. Quickly she was bombarded with tales of their Hogwarts adventures, including a very detail explanation on how they carried out their best prank of the year told by Fred and Teddy and James, looking a bit more comfortable, jumped in to correct them at certain points.

They had now retired to the living room, and where reminiscing about past Christmases. Harry was telling them a story form about ten years ago, when Remus was helping Molly make Christmas pudding and had managed to accidentally magic all the mixture onto Percy's head. Everyone laughed at the memory, while Remus turned red, he'd totally forgotten about that. They continued sharing embarrassing stories, until it was time for the kids to go to bed. Remus was sharing a room with Roxanne,Dominique, Rose and Louis. The five had gotten into their pyjamas and were sat on top of the sleeping bags. "So Remus how's is school going for you? I haven't seen you around much." Rose asked. "I've been hanging out with Scorpius." "Oh yeah Draco Malfoy's son." Roxanne said, remembering seeing the two boys in the corridor together. "Um about that, I'm sorry I misjudged him in first year, you guys can come hang out with me, Dai and Alice if you want." Rose said looking sheepish. Dominique perked up at the mention of Dai. "I'd forgotten about that, I think he has too. But we can definitely spend more time together when we go back." Remus said, reassuring Rose. She smiled at him gratefully. "Guys!" Hermione called. "Lights out." They soon all fell asleep.