#side note i read a fic once where harry says ‘u saved my life. we’re even now’

[padfootastic]

hello miss padfootastic, today I am thinking about godfather Harry who would move mountains for Teddy, when Remus never moved mountains for Harry. :(

yES!!! miss imp ur so so right for this

i don’t care how ooc it might be but i truly fully believe teddy was a traumatised harry’s salvation postwar. he kept that boy alive. physically AND mentally. harry will literally do anything for him and nothing is ever too big or too much for his godson.

i’m thinking of—harry, parenting teddy, wondering about how easy it is (it’s not, really. he’s a child bringing up another child. but take away the nappy changes and the constant crying and the keeping a living being other than yourself alive part, and it really is easy. bc he loves parenthood. loves teddy. so much) and wondering why remus never wanted this. how he could have given it up so easily. it’s honestly just really sad? like makes him hold teddy tight and never let go? primarily i think he just pities remus at that point.

i can ALSO see harry being offended, not on his behalf, but primarily on teddy’s. because this wonderful, amazing child should’ve not had his father attempt to walk out on him, shouldn’t have had to grow up an orphan but that’s what it is. i’ve only read one fic w a similar premise but i rly need more where harry is just. mad at remus postwar for his treatment of teddy lmao.

#teddy lupin #harry potter #side note i read a fic once where harry says ‘u saved my life. we’re even now’ #and teddy’s like ??? #and harry’s like ‘after the war’ #and it’s all very sweet #but that’s basically the vibe #can also imagine him being a helicopter parent tbh #his experiences shaping him into what he wished he had as a child etc etc #also really really need remus to be. Treated. like the not great guardian he is #like bro ur bestf died and his kid is left w/o anyone who cared for him #ur telling me u won’t even make one measly visit??? #not even as a benevolent stranger? #get outta here w that shit #harry should’ve been more mad and i stand by that #i GET why he wasn’t. truly. but that doesn’t satisfy my mean lil heart lol #pen’s asks