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Teddy Lupin
and the Forest Guard
a First Year at Hogwarts Fic
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Table of contents
Chapter One: The Great Pre-Hogwarts Orphan Tour
[Live Journal Entries with commentary: Part 1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3]
Summary: Teddy Lupin, eleven years old, is preparing to go to Hogwarts, to everyone's general celebration.

Chapter Two: Too Many Wands
[Live Journal Entries with commentary: Part 1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3]
Summary: The process of getting a wand is more complicated than it ought to be.

Chapter Three: A Mission to Save the World
[Live Journal Entries with commentary: Part 1 ; Part 2]
Summary: Teddy boards the Hogwarts Express, sitting with his older friend, Frankie Apcarne, who inducts him into the secret society called "The Forest Guard."

Chapter Four: The Smallest Year
[Live Journal Entries with commentary: Part 1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3]
Summary: Teddy discovers a sad truth of war, when it turns out that very few students his year made it to Hogwarts... and the fewest of all made it to Gryffindor.

Chapter Five: Teacher's Pet
[Live Journal Entries with commentary: Part 1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3]
Summary: Teddy starts his classes, and makes friends across House lines.

Chapter Six: The Kappa in Classroom Eleven
[Live Journal Entries with commentary: Part 1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3]
Summary: The Forest Guard, on a leisurely Saturday, discovers a kappa loose in the castle, and decides that they must expel it!

Chapter Seven: The Willow Wand
[Live Journal Entries with commentary: Part 1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3]
Summary: Teddy gets his first detention, which is spent in the shadow of the Whomping Willow, and later realizes his grades are suffering because of his weak wand. After Flitwick lectures him, he gives in and tries his mother's wand. It works... quite adequately.

Chapter Eight: Uncle Harry
[Live Journal Entries with commentary: Part 1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3]
Summary: Harry Potter comes back to Hogwarts, both to teach and to steal some time with his godson.

Chapter Nine: The Mapmakers' Mark
[Live Journal Entries with commentary: Part 1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3]
Summary: Teddy discovers that his father's wand is able to make the Marauder's Map do new tricks, including finding items the Marauders lost during their time at Hogwarts, which Teddy immediately sets out to find again.

Chapter Ten: Reparo
[Live Journal Entries with commentary: Part 1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3]
Summary: Teddy and the Guard go into the Forest, where Frankie shows Teddy what makes him suspicious.

Chapter Eleven: Missing Pieces
[Live Journal Entries with commentary: Part 1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3]
Summary: Teddy goes home for the holidays, and enlists his godfather's help with the Marauder's Map.

Chapter Twelve: Family Tree
[Live Journal Entries with commentary: Part 1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3]
Summary: Teddy and Harry, with an unexpected source of help, continue to work on the Map, and Teddy visits one of his mother's friends.

Chapter Thirteen: Revelo Lupinis
[Live Journal Entries with commentary: Part 1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3]
Summary: Teddy is distracted from worries about his friend Frankie when Harry sends him word that things are better with the Map than they thought--new magic opens to him, and he finds a piece of his father's life that had been lost for years.

Chapter Fourteen: The Forest Guard
[Live Journal Entries with commentary: Part 1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3]
Summary: Frankie tells Teddy his rather... odd... theories on souls, the Forbidden Forest, and strange glades, and Teddy agrees to help him search the Forest, mainly in the hope of putting him off long enough to forget about it.

Chapter Fifteen: Love Stories
[Live Journal Entries with commentary: Part 1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3]
Summary: Teddy discovers a gift his father left for him, and through it, sees the past.

Chapter Sixteen: Loyalty
[Live Journal Entries with commentary: Part 1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3]
Summary: Frankie's obsession with the past puts a strain on his friendship with Teddy, who does his best to help.

Chapter Seventeen: Noble and Most Ancient
[Live Journal Entries with commentary: Part 1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3]
Summary: On Teddy's birthday, he gets a package from his grandmother, with her entire history of the Black family.

Chapter Eighteen: The Charmer
[Live Journal Entries with commentary: Part 1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3]
Summary: Honoria starts a school paper, and writes an article ridiculing Frankie's obsession... and implying that Teddy told her he thinks it's crazy.

Chapter Nineteen: The Shadow in the Smoke
[Live Journal Entries with commentary: Part 1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3]
Summary: Teddy follows Frankie into danger, and is pushed toward a border that it's not time for him to cross.

Chapter Twenty: The Last Paw Print
[Live Journal Entries with commentary: Part 1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3]
Summary: Teddy recovers from his ordeal, and finishes up the school year, finishing up his unfinished business, and getting ready for the summer.