@quidditchleaguenet september event: wizarding families - ravenclaw team - the lupins
i fully believe that before tonks and remus left for the final battle, they wrote letters to teddy.
they knew there was a possibility they weren’t going to make it out, and they wanted him to know how much they loved him and that they would always be there if he needed them.
i think that harry gave teddy the letters when he was fifteen when he was going through so many changes that he felt like he couldn’t keep up.
harry waited to give them to him because he wanted teddy to understand everything they were telling him; he would have been too young to understand before that time of his life.
teddy never told anyone what they wrote in his letters to him, but after he read them at fifteen, they were always in his bedside table’s drawer.
he would read remus’s when he felt alone and afraid: it made him feel like there was still good in the world and that hope was the best thing to hold onto.
and he would read tonks’s when he needed confidence and reassurance: it made him feel like he could do anything, and that he would always be loved no matter what he decided to do.
their words shaped him through his adult years, and he lived by them daily.
when teddy was not using his metamorphmagus abilities, he looked strikingly like his father.
whenever he missed his parents, he would change his appearance into them sometimes and stare into the mirror.
he would smile at himself through it so it felt like his parents were smiling back at him.
he asked harry about the resurrection stone a lot as a child, and harry always told him he didn’t need the stone to feel his parent’s presence.
it took him years to figure that out, until he read their letters.
he was never alone, not really. his parents were a part of him, and they always would be.
