#nonbinary teddy lupin

Just a silly thing I wrote a while ago and completely forgot about 😅 thanks @april-thelightfury115 for beta reading!

Harry & Teddy | 300 words | Gen | Fluff, (Implied) Nonbinary Teddy, Kid Fic | Read on AO3

“Uncle Harry?”

Harry looked down from the telly at Teddy. He was curled in his lap, falling asleep against his chest with his mouth barely poking out of the gigantic Hufflepuff sweater Andromeda had given him. It'd belonged to Tonks, she'd said.

“Yes, Bumblebee?” he asked softly, brushing Teddy's fringe out of his closed eyes.

“Do I have to be a boy?”

For a moment, Harry froze, his mind short-circuiting as he tried to decide what the best answer to that question was.

Teddy looked up at him, eyes slowly opening, and Harry just blurted, “You don't have to be anything you don't want to be.”

“Hmm.” Teddy sat up a bit, his frown of concentration entirely too serious for a five-year-old. “I like being a boy,” he said after a moment. “Sometimes.”

“And the rest of the time?”

“Sometimes I wanna grow my hair out,” he said, hair already changing consistency—slowly shifting into a mane.

“You want to grow your hair?”

Teddy nodded. “So I can paint my nails.”

“Oh.” Harry frowned. “Can't you paint your nails with short hair?”

“No!” Teddy giggled.

“Okay, okay.” Harry smiled. “My bad.”

“Sometimes I want to be like Victoire. She wears really pretty dresses, like—like the pink one that flowed when she spinned—”

“—Spun—”

“—and her mum always braids her hair and it looks so pretty. I want to look pretty too.” Teddy's hair turned a pale shade of blond, and Harry pet it, bringing Teddy's head to his chest and nodding along to his words.

“I can braid your hair,” he said. “I'm not sure I'll be as good at it as Fleur, but I can try.”

Teddy's smile was wide—peaceful, his eyelids already drooping and his head becoming heavier against Harry's chest.

“Okay,” he said with a yawn. “Can we do it tomorrow?”

Okay but consider this: 

Ever since Teddy was a baby they would switch their body back and forth to match their gender 

It just happens subconsciously 

Tonks and Remus Everyone being kind of confused at first but just going with it 

While Teddy was a baby everyone always used "they" because "We are not telling you our baby's genitals, you creep!" 

Once Teddy got older she would wear her hair pink, he would change his hair to blue, or they would streak it or make it green 

Teddy only using one name because "My parents gave it to me goddammit let me have that!" 

At Hogwarts Teddy gets the choice between having a small room off of the Hufflepuff common room or having a bed that magically switches dorms

Teddy chooses a magical bed because “Goddammit I am not that special”

A couple of the older students who don’t understand making fun of Teddy

But Teddy’s classmates all instantly rush to their defense

OR

Some of Teddy’s classmates making fun of them

And the older students going, “NO FREAKING WAY WE ARE NOT SEPARATING PEOPLE INTO GROUPS LIKE THAT AGAIN WE JUST HAD A WAR LIKE 10 YEARS AGO.”

Actually I like this one better

And some of the older students deciding that they need to learn about trans people and educate others on it

And asking the muggle-borns because they already know all about it

And then petitioning the headmaster/headmistress (McGonagall?) to let them go around and teach all the classes about it

And it becomes an annual thing for some of the older students to do a class about social issues to all the first years

They try to find someone who can speak with authority on each subject