#thesevendays

THE SEVEN DAYS

Chapter 7

Victoire seemed happy for the last six days but this morning, she couldn’t hide her feelings. She knew, sooner or later Edward would be back to his routine. There’s no reason for Edward to stay any longer here, his case had finished. And in Hogwarts, they hardly to meet because the bunch of homeworks she got and different class hour lessened their chance to meet in corridor or Hogwarts’ surrounding. The breakfast, lunch or dinner weren’t the good choice tho, Edward was rare to have a meal outside his dorm. He joined only a few of classes held which Victoire claimed herself that he never even seen Edward.

Now, she was sketching a raven symbol on a parchment in her bedroom. The wind blew through her window’s bedroom and she put down her quill on the table. She let out a deep sigh and saw herself in the mirror beside the table. And after all these days, why does she feel everything’s changed so fast? Her mind, her attitude, her words and part of herself aren’t like the way it was. Does it how love—work? Why this love is different with the love she has been sharing to her family all this time? How many types of love in this world, actually? All she know if love is a beautiful thing. Could love destroy someone’s life too? There were too many questions in her head right now.

Next to the Victoire’s bedroom, Edward leaned himself on the window and sat on it. He stared at the blue sea some feets away from him. He should have been in home this hour, but he changed the plan and postponed his departure to give the sweet and brave blonde girl he met for these past days a special farewell. There’s a chance he wouldn’t continue his study until the N.E.W.T and went to the place he had desired to do his research plan. He was afraid today would be the very last day for him to see her, hear her voice and touch her blonde hair directly. He knew not all farewells are the end of a chapter in life, because some of them were the beginning of a worth journey. More challenging adventure. Maybe you never had an experience to feel if a love could so this eager in these six days, but you can ask both of Edward or Victoire.

“Vic?”someone’s knocking her door, sounded like a woman.

“Yes, mommy!”Victoire quickly jumped out of her bed and opened the door, seeing her mom stood up in front of the door and Dominique was on her lap.

 “What are you doing in your room? Get a walk with your sister, I need to see a couple of my friends who’s on their way to here.”Fleur handed Dominique to Victoire and she nodded and Fleur left them.

 “So, what we gonna do Dom? I have no mood to go outside, stay all the time in my bedroom isn’t a bad idea. It’s been cleaned, you can play here.”she put her sister on her bed and then opened the window, looked at sky and took a deep breath.”I forgot she can’t reply me, Merlin…”

Victoire burned her head under the pillow while Dominique was busy with her toys. She had no mood for doing anything, even to go down to the ground floor. She’s been thinking about Edward’s leaving day that could happen in anytime. She didn’t know it’s too much or not because until this time, Edward didn’t even talk to her. With or without her, Edward would be doing fine. A seeker was a very wanted position, had a lot of fans—especially girls, and she didn’t know anything about it. Edward could have been in relationship, secret and closed. Who knows? Why she had to interverne? How if when Edward said that he loved her it’s only a mistake? Or only an urgent words to say at that time? How if everything they had been doing together for almost a week was nothing for him? But why she really wanted to save Edward from the excecution? Why? Why?...

“Vic!”another voice in front of her window and she walked to the door slowly.

“Dad?”she opened the door and you would have no idea how fast her heart was beating at the time she saw how charismatic and handsome, Edward Remus Lupin, a seeker of Hufflepuff’s Quidditch Team was standing in front of her with a very cute dimple on his cheek, his hair was combed very neatly and Victoire lost her breath away..

“Vic?”Edward asked her.

“Yay Edward! What’s up?”Victoire answered him nervously, rubbed her hands for nothing and smiled.”Yap, what’s wrong?”

“Are you OK, sweet?”Edward let out a little laugh.

“I am, wolf. Do I look sick?”asked Victoire.

“You’re not. You look beautiful, indeed.”Edward replied with a smile and Victoire only gave her best smile.

“So, why did you knock my door?”

“I want…”Edward stopped talking for a moment.”I want to talk.”

Victoire gasped. She had a bad feeling about what Edward’s going to talk to her.

“Or you have something to do inside?”Edward added, seeing Victoire’s react.

“Em, no. There’s only Dominique play inside. If there’s something you want to talk with me, just talk here. I can’t leave her alone.”

“Well, okay.”Edward exhaled and looked very seriously at Victoire’s face whose tears on the tip of her blue eyes.”I’ll leave tonight, sweet. I don’t know how to say this, I know I don’t deserve anything from a girl like you. With or without me, you’ll be doing fine, I’m sure. My—I mean our—if you don’t mind I use ‘our’, our six days are the best things ever happened to me. You know Vic? I’m covered by loneliness since I was a baby. When I got a position as a seeker, famous or yeah whatever they call me, it doesn’t make me feel any better. I keep hiding under the ground floor, behind the gloomy Hufflepuff common room, and never touched the Great Hall. I used to be alone, everywhere. I’ve been living with my aunt, yes. She raises me up until today, but she, honestly can’t remove the loneliness lingers on my soul. I rarely feel happy. I’m too scared when I’m not wearing my quidditch uniform. I’m scared if people know who I am and my ability. Victoire…

He couldn’t help when he realized that the girl standing in front of her was crying, tears by tears fell down upon her blossom cheek, but she kept listening.

“No no no.. don’t cry, sweet. I can’t see you crying like this.”Edward took out a handkerchief from his pocket and removed her tears. Victoire started sobbing but she didn’t even speak out a word.

“I didn’t mean to make you crying, Vic. I really am sorry.”Edward said, hesitately.

“Teddy..”finally the girl answered in the middle of her sobbing.”You have to know how grateful I am right now because I met you, six days ago. I would have no idea how if I rejected to meet you at that day. Maybe I would be the foolish girl ever existed, wouldn’t I?”she chuckled, wiped her tears.

Now Edward fell into a silence.

“I actually haven’t planned yet what I’m going to say to you while I know you’ll be leaving. I’m not good at words, to be honest. But what I’ve got learned from school is you have to keep your friends—or whoever you think that helps you to live your life in a better perspective and don’t let them go too further or worse you can’t reach them again. And that’s what I’ve supposed to do with you. Well, I have a best friend named Ariana Moon, and I always try to keep her close with me because she understands me, very very well if I have to say. You and Ariana are different, but, I have a same job to do with you two. I have to keep you close in my life because even though your role and her are not same, but without you.. perhaps my world will never turn this colorful like what I feel.”

“You don’t need to feel that you didn’t deserve or else, because a help is kind of my way to keep you close. So, whenever you want to back to me, just back. I’ll be here waiting for you.”she said innocently, and Edward just realized that girl was younger than him, she didn’t understand what Edward had understood.

“Merlin, why you’re too sweet.”Edward replied with a little laugh.

“I hope that nickname will be fit in me after ten years we would separate, Teddy.”she answered.

“Of course, it will do. I’m gonna make my self sure that I only give that nickname to you, Victoire Weasley.”Edward smiled and he didn’t know why, but he felt much much better than before. It just like he’s been sured and he no need to worry about anything.

“We’ve talked so serious, Teddy.”Victoire chuckled.”I’m fifteen, you remember? There’s a lot of things I should learn about while now you probably understand. Including what love means. I still doubt about it, I mean I don’t know what exactly it is. Since the day I met you, I assumed that love has more than one shape.”

“Our heart is just like a deep ocean with some parts in every corner. And our love is just like that, fill that ocean like a water. I just got something…”Victoire walked to the balcony and Edward quickly followed her.”That we can love more than one people. I thought I would only share this feeling to my family. But, I know now that I can give it to you, too. But love, never promised to only share a joy. It sometimes turn into a pain, hurt, tear or else to test that the energy will be always be there no matter what kind and how hard catastrophe it had. Is it right, Teddy?”

“People often define love as something that will always be good thing, consist of happiness or something like that. But I know the fact isn’t. Love is just a main important thing to build everything. People do something because they want to, or because they like to, or because they love to. Love is important in our life. It depends on how people give it means. Right, Edward?”Victoire smiled.

“Yeah.”Edward couldn’t talk more but stared at two blue eyes in front him right now. He started missing all the moments they had been together for these six days. He couldn’t even imagine how to live without her in a very long enough time. But it’s for the goodness of their life after this. He should be “someone” or “something” to deserve a girl as special as Victoire.

“I promise, Vic. I’ll be back.”Edward tried to reach her arm.

“Ehem..”Victoire cleared her throat.”Promise is a big thing and it correspondens with our trust on someone. And for me, if a person gives me a promise, and she or he can’t fulfill it, they can lost my trust forever. So, in avoiding something like that happen, I just wanna say that you have to always remember me, until a time that we can’t even say when it will be. I don’t want make your promise as your heavy duty, so your duty will be easier by not thinking it as a promise. If you can fulfill it, I would be the happiest girl ever existed in the world, but if you can’t, I would be doing fine. Because years are so long and everything can happen in that period of time.”Victoire smiled.”I just thought about the realistic thing that’s going to happen. I’m not a foreseen seeker, but a woman is a visioner creature. She can think about something that might happen some years from now.”

“You have to be free when you’re out there, Ted. Okay?”she smiled, the wind blew her falling blonde hair.

Edward let out a very deep sigh, but he had sured about something. One day, if someone asked him about Victoire by asking “after all this time”, he’ll answer “always”.

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THE SEVEN DAYS

Chapter 6

Since this dawn, Fleur seemed busy with her kettle and bowl in the kitchen. She should prepare an early breakfast for his husband and also Edward because both of them had to go to the Ministry of Magic to attend the hearing. Eventhough he’s an innocent right now, but a law is a law. 

“Has Edward woken up, darl?”Bill Weasley sat on the chair in the dining room, sipping his hot black coffee and talked to her wife, who didn’t notice him at first.

”Fleur?”

Fleur just got back from the bathroom and quickly dried her hand before answering her husband’s question.”Oh yes, he’s in his room for packing and preparing. I’ve told him to go down for breakfast first.”she answered while walking approached and sat on the chair next to Bill.

“He’s a good boy.”Bill said shortly.”I knew him since he’s a baby. Lupin told me about his birthdate and remember when I hurriedly left our house and forgot to leave you a note? That day—when you really really upset, didn’t want to talk two weeks after our marriage...it’s because I have to go to St. Mungo to see his baby. I have no idea he will lost his parents in the battle.”

“I see him is a strong boy, I believe him to take care of Victoire if one day he want to go up for a more serious relationship with her. Don’t you think the same?”Fleur sipped her tea, looking at two shoes were slowly coming from the upstairs.”Edward is here.”

Fleur got up from her seat and took two plates of scrambled eggs before Edward stepped into the dining room. Bill enjoyed his coffee and serious in reading the newspaper, seeing some re-position news in the Ministry’s Departments and some currently Quidditch news.

“Morning aunt Fleur and uncle Bill.”Edward walked into the room and sat on the chair opposite Bill and tried to act politely.”I don’t know what I have to say—“

“You have to know what you’ll say, Ted.”Bill folded up the newspaper and he stared at the boy sat in front of him.”You must explain everything, the details and every acts you saw in that night the girl being murdered. After that you’ll be free as much as before.”

“I know, I’ve prepared it last night. I mean, I don’t know what to say and how to reply your kindness in helping me out of this case. Uncle Percy and also Victoire...I don’t know but feel I don’t deserve it.”answered Edward in a lower voice. Fleur didn’t reply but kept preparing their breakfast. 

“Don’t think about it right now, just focus on the hearing. Uncle Percy will be the leader of this and help you.”answered Bill and he saw her wife came closer and put two plates of a tasty breakfast in front of them and left them to climb the staircase.

“Oh, aunt, you’ll wake Victoire?”asked Edward worriedly.

“No, dear. I need to take somethin’ before you leave.”Fleur smiled.

“You really care about my daughter, don’t you?”Bill took a spoon of scramble eggs and coughed slowly.

“I...i-i-i...m yes...you know..”he answered nervously, losing his courage to see Bill face to face. He hadn’t ready yet to be questioned by his future law-father.

“You shouldn’t afraid of me, boy. Who bites?”asked Bill laughed then started to explain.”For your informations as your first time to go to the Ministry of Magic. I tell you, there are lots of people coming and having business there. No children or it’s very seldom to see them around.”

“Is it okay if I give you a story telling? You won’t lose your appetite, will you? Having two girls make me a great story teller especially on bedtime, recently.”Bill chuckled, stirring his coffee clockwise after pouring a block of sugar into it.

“No, of course uncle. I’d be pleased to listen.”answered Edward quickly.

“Alright, then. Maybe you’ve read there are some Departments under the Ministry of Magic. I’m going to work in The Department of Magical Creatures, like my brother Charlie in a month from now. But I won’t explain all of departments because it’ll take much time so I only explain the Department you’ll go now. It’s Department of Magical Law Enforcement. It’s where Percy Weasley works and where you’ll be proceed on your hearing. You gonna meet Wizengamots, ever heard about it?”

“Oh, yes. My aunt told me once. They’re like judger?”Edward replied doubtedly.

“Closely but yeah different. Wizengamots are the highest wizarding court of law in the entire Great Britain. They made up of ... fifty members or more and you’ll see their head under their red or black hat with “W” symbol on it. They do their job along the hearing in the headquarter belongs to Department of Magical Law Enforcement or held a gathering on the Ministry’s dungeon. They’re needed because it’s a rare thing to see a defendant bring their spokeperson during the session. But a defendant is allowed to bring a witness.”

“People underage, 17 years—except uncle Harry at that time, is having less access to come around in the Ministry of Magic, due to that place saves a lot of information about people and also wizarding world. Ah for how we get there..”Bill took floo powder from his pocket and gave it to Edward.”We’ll use our fireplace. There some ways we can take, first a telephone booth in London and also a network toilet connects directly to the fireplaces in the Atrium. Ever knew?”

Edward shook his head.

“That’s no matter because after you graduated, you’ll get through a real journey of your life and knowing many things. Too many, sometimes.”answered Bill then sipped the last sip of his coffee.”You need to be encouraged before hearing? Like having a conversation with my daughter?”

Edward laughed without a voice. Bill enjoyed his breakfast but then he threw some words to the boy in front of him.

“I need to have some words with you after the hearing, boy. For your futurehold.”

Then Bill left him in a silence.

“Wolf! Come here!”after finishing his breakfast and ascended the wooden staricase, he saw the door leading to the balcony opened and a girl calling at him.

He walked slowly there because since last night they didn’t talk much, after apparating they went straight to sleep. He hadn’t said thanks or else, even asked about her condition and the story about her brave decision to save him. She would have no idea how lucky he felt right now, finding her in his life after a long time he never felt grateful like this. Everytime he looked at her eyes, he didn’t know but somehow he got an idea if she would have a part in his future. A bright future, to be exact. For almost seventeen years what he felt was pain and loneliness—but now he knew that he had a hope, to change. To live as a werewolf being isn’t bad as he ever thought before, he inwardly said.

“You awoke?”asked Edward, seeing Victoire sat on a little chair in the balcony with her blue bronze sweater and he walked closer to her.

“I’m waiting for the sunrise, Ted. As always.”she answered.”Come here, sit down!”

“Victoire I know—“before telling out, Victoire put her point finger on his lips made he could do nothing but fell silent because the girl took his breath away and she only gave him a sweet smile and picking up something from her pocket. A black box.

“You don’t need to say anything to me because now you have to focus, senior.”Victoire chuckled and pushed the box right to Edward’s hand on the table.”Bring it with you, it’s from your aunt.”

“Aunt Amanda?”asked Edward confused, but quickly grabbed it.

“Ted let’s go! Time is up!”Bill’s voice was echoing from the inside and Victoire laughed. Edward seemed lame in that time and he only waved at her, fastened his step to go to fireplace where Bill Weasley had waited him. He took a handful of floo powder, along with Bill they dissapeared after the emerald fire appeared.

-- He jumped out of the fireplace with black marmer on its wall and followed Bill who already walked out. He cleaned up himself quickly and looked over his shoulder. Uncle Bill was right, he said. There are lots of people here appeared from the emerald fire in those fireplaces at left and right side of the Atrium. They were wearing black jacket or witch hat, grey or brown robe, moon-spectacles or big glasses, tanned man or skinny man, white-haired woman or black-haired woman and all types of people were talking each other, bonding in a business of magic conversation and seemed busy.

“Come in, Ted!”Bill commanded to follow him inside the lift looked very traditional—no machine was found but he could feel a sensation when it worked vertically and moved to the next place. Department of Magical Law Enforcement’s Headquarter.

“Here we go,”they walked out of the lift.”I need to see Percy so you go to that room...”he pointed a room in the corner of this corridor.”...alone. Okay? Be brave. Loyal on the truth, boy.”

Bill left him and he walked straight to the room with the black box on his hand. He suddenly missed her aunt so much. For almost a week, he hadn’t seen her to visit and now he handed a box which adressed to him and given by her own aunt without—any notices. While seeing no one was in the room, he opened the box exactly at the opened door and saw a piece of moving potograph was there. It must’ve been never changed from it was taken in 1996, when he was still a baby on his mother’s lap, Nymphadora Tonks. Beside the greatest woman he ever knew in her life, stood the greatest man ever he ever saw, which was his father, Remus Lupin. Why did his aunt give this to him to be brought along the hearing? Couldn’t it make him suddenly feel sad and broken? Like slapped him right on his face that he had never felt a true affair from a pair of parents? He couldn’t help and gripped the photograph very strong, trying to get rid of an anger he could feel right now and avoided any damages he might cause until he found something behind it. A handwriting, little and probably undecected if he didn’t turn the part.

One day, you’ll be a great wizard, my little boy.

With your special ability and skill, you’re capable of keeping something worth from people around you. You’ll get their trust.

Mom and Dad always love you, Teddy.

Words could be very strong to encourage and motivate someone, raising much energy and spirit in a second like what he felt right now. These words might be found in anywhere, but the sender made it different and powerful enough.

“There he is,”someone suddenly came from behind and knocked on his shoulder.”Go in, Edward. The hearing will be begun momentarily.”then he recognized it was Percy Weasley, looked little bit different with black hat on his red hair and brought some thick parchment files on his hand and walked pass him straight to his high chair. He quickly put the photograph back to the box, went inside and seeing the room was surrounded by long chair formed in a circle following the shape of the room. It would be the place where the Wizengamots were watching and voting for him.

“They’ll be here in 3 minutes. Prepare your self, I suggest.”Percy talked from far, he saw a single chair was in front of him and thought it would be where he would sit during the session. Then he walked and sat on it, muttering under a silence until the room was full enough. Bill Weasley sat behind him and the hearing started.

“I hereby—Percy Ignatius Weasley as the leader of this hearing ask to a defendant who’s in this case already being innocent named Edward Remus Lupin, seventeen years old which in a week ago reported by Miss Jeniffer Bones due to her murdered daughter found in the Forbidden Forest with you. Would you explain what actually happened on that 25th of July and the day before it happened?”

At the first, he answered nothing. Until one of the Wizengamots stared at him, giving a ferocious look.

“Would you explain, Edward Remus Lupin?”

“I’ve been threatened to confess a lie and hide the truth. Before it happened, I was being followed by two men in the day I ought off to my hometown by Hogwarts Express. I have no idea about who they were until they kidnapped me and I knew it was my friend—rival exactly—Jonathan Avery and his uncle. I don’t know what he’s doing and the reason why he kidnapped me until in that night, I saw Clara Bones, she’s in the same term as us murdered by I don’t know—but she’s killed by Avada-ing. I got mental that time and I couldn’t help, then my self turned to a werewolf being and unconsciously hurt her by bitting on her neck, I realized it in the next morning. I really lost my control—and I can’t explain it why I wasn’t aware while doing it because I don’t understand enough about my ability until right now.”

Percy was busy writing something and handed some parchments from the his assistant, sat behind him.

“And in the morning, I saw Ministry of Magic were coming right before I wanted to tell everything but he forced me to confess that I murdered her. He told him that he would kill my aunt if I didn’t do that. I’m afraid, somehow. She’s the only family I have.”Edward explain fluently.”He’s under a pressure of defeating me, sir. We’ve been like an enemy to each other in a bad way. But to be honest, I never even think to push him over or hurt him because I have no interest in it. Until he told me that I made a big mistake when my House and friends won the housecup in Hogwarts. He’s simply jealous. It sounds odd and silly reason, but it is, sir.”

“You didn’t see how the girl killed?”

“I see a jet of green light appeared that night. But I didn’t see it clear enough because I was being tied and very weak. I’m not sure if Jonathan did it, because we’re still working on the Unforgivable Curse in the Charms subject. It’s me who bites her neck, but it’s after she died.”Edward answered and in a quick, he turned her head to Bill who gave him a nod and told him to keep focus.

“The motif is only based on personal problem? Having a revenge?”asked one of the Wizengamots while Percy keep busy writing on his parchment.

“As far as I can assume, yes.”answered Edward.

Then a murmuring suddenly could be heard from those Wizengamots, who might think if this child case sounded ludicrous and shouldn’t be happened, furthermore between two students of the famous magical school like Hogwarts. 

“We had voted last night when Percy told everything and met already Jonathan Avery. All your words is trusted due to his result after being veritaserum-ed. We’ll look further before making a final decision for him. ”said one of the Wizengamots.”We agree if you’re free of charge.”

“Edward Remus Lupin, the only son of Remus Lupin, I hereby—as the head of Department of Magical Law Enforcement state you’re an innocent from now on in a murdering case of Miss Jeniffer Bones’s child and free of any charges.”Percy knocked the hammer three times on the table and Edward, freed.

-- Without his expectation, his aunt Amanda Tonks was actually there since the hearing begun. She wore a black dress and a black fedora, so he couldn’t notice her around. After everything finished, they went back to the Cottage and suprised when saw some people were there, like welcoming him home. He couldn’t hold his smile when Victoire gave him a crown, probably made by herself and put it on his head.

“Welcome, King of Quidditch Seeker!”she smiled at him, made his heart beated faster.

The Cottage was decorated into a little awesome place for a party. Ribbons and lamps hang in every corner of the house and you could find cocktails, cookies, beverages, and in a word, a feast. There were Weasleys family, include Percy and his family (who had a child, Molly Weasley Jr.), George and Angeline Johnson (who had two children, Fred Weasley Jr. And Roxanne Weasley), Ron and Hermione (who had two children, Rose Weasley and Hugo Weasley), Ginny and Harry Potter (who had three children, they were James Sirius Potter, Albus Severus Potter and Lily Luna Potter), Charlie with his fiance, Amanda Tonks and her husband, some Percy’s relations in Ministry of Magic and also Bill Weasley’s little family who arranged this little party only in five hours. It was for celebrating not only Edward on his case, but also for everything good happened to their family during this summer break.

There was a music from the radio and people were murmuring in talking about different topics. In the dining room, kitchen, guest room and also balcony. And before taking their dinner, they released some golden lanterns to the air together in the beach after the sun went down in the west. And for made the night looked more glamorous, they were Periculum-ing the sky and turned it red for some minutes.

The lamps were shimmering gold in the outside. As what Bill Weasley told Edward this morning to talk, he walked approach him who looked very enjoyed talking with his first daughter in the balcony and burst in a laughter.

“Daddy is staring at you, Ted.”Victoire saw his dad stood up behind them after hearing his steps from groundfloor.

“Uncle..”Edward startled and quickly got up from his seat, turned his body to see the man.

“Let’s walk outside, boy.”Bill winked at Victoire and let Edward walked pass him.”Men business, sweetheart. Don’t guess too much.”

The evening had already came. The sea water reflected the sky color so it was so dark and also cold. Bill and Edward had walked along the coast in a silence because Edward wasn’t brave enough to start a conversation. He only threw a simple question about Ministry and Bill only answered it shortly.

“I’m waiting for the right time comes, actually.”Bill suddenly stopped when they hadn’t reached the Cottage back after walking.”But you don’t have much time, do you?”

“If it’s needed, I can postpone my departure, uncle.”Edward replied, clearing his throat.

“Ted, I know you love my daughter.”Bill suddenly spoke and Edward could do nothing but held his breath for some moments.”And I know my daughter loves you too. She never looked so excited and happy like now. Sacrificing herself for only saving you. I’m happy seeing my daughter happy. That’s what a father job to do.”

Bill turned his sight to Edward.

“Did she know you’re able to—“

“Turn into a werewolf?”Edward cut his words politely.”Yes, she knew it. I’ve told her and .. showed her.”

“And what did she say?”Bill replied.

“At the first time, she looked scared of me. But then she only laughed.”Edward simply answered, let the wind blowing through his hair.

“She accepts you, then.”answered Bill.”Ted, long time ago before both of you born here, I was bitten by a werewolf. He’s Fenrir Greyback, right at my face. See this scar?”he pointed at a line marked on his cheek.”Everyone was so afraid that I would be becoming a part of their colony, werewolves. But Fenrir didn’t bite me in a full moon night or in other words, he didn’t bite me when he’s in werewolf body. But some opinions said I’ll have some habit like a werewolf. I might not be the same after it.”

“If your father didn’t tell me about that, I would never know if I had a werewolf blood in my body. But he told me, everything. Every worst thing that probably happen in my life next day after I recovered from the Hospital, include maybe Fleur won’t accept my proposal. But she did it, eventhough she knew I might be very dangerous at anytime, she didn’t change her mind. She keeps loving me until today.”

“Well, I never changed being a werewolf though. But sometimes I roar at random time or want to be lonely in a middle of forest in the full moon. Fleur knows that and she never mad of it or protest me, lessing her love for me, she never. She looks at me like how we meet for the first time.”

“Do you know why I tell you all this story? Not for drifting you off to a tight sleep, but to remind you. Victoire has a love like what Fleur has for me, Ted. She will only give it to particular people—or maybe only few in the world. She’s kind but very selective in sorting who has to be loved. Now, you’re the one. She didn’t change her mind to keep close with you even when she knew that you’re a metamorphagus and can hurt her at anytime, did she? It means she’ll be loving you unconditionally, boy. You probably feel that you won’t deserve it, like what I thought nineteen years ago, but remember this.”

“A true love only comes once. We don’t know which is it, but when you feel it right, both of you can accept each other even for your flaws, don’t let her go to find another one. Anoher one who’s better than you. Don’t even tell her that, because you gonna regret it.”Bill let a heavy sigh.”When the time comes, I’ll retire of my job in making her happy everyday and it’ll be your job to do it for the rest of her life. Don’t dissapoint her, even once. I know it’s still some years from now, but after this you gonna dissapear, won’t you?”

Edward smiled.

“I wish I could record what you’re saying tonight, uncle. I don’t know how to say but your daughter is a precious one, if I must say. From the beginning, I know I won’t be able to let her go after knowing her this far.”Edward answered.”I’m gonna looking for a future, uncle. I’ve planned and told my aunt which is you know it too, that after graduated from Hogwarts, I’ll probably make my own place to build a magical institution for werewolves and animagus community. And it’ll take much time in my life. But I promise to save those half-werewolves out there and give them a life what they have to deserve. I mean until this time, many people still scared of their existence while they never meant to harm anyone. So to realize it all, I need to be away from my family and friends for two or three years to do researches but I promise to come back after having a proper self for your daughter, Victoire.”

Bill looked satistified.“What a great plan, son. I hope you’ll succeed to make it real.”answered Bill.”Living as a werewolf being isn’t bad though, Ted. Only if you can control it. And love, as the strongest power against anything, can help you.”

“This is a quality topic, isn’t it? I’m giving a marriage advice to a seven years old boy.”Bill and Edward laughed together.

”But I’m not joking on this. I’m serious.Very very serious, Edward Remus Lupin.”