Raising wizarding kids is always hard. Controlling accidental youthful magic, giving them a standard Muggle education, deciding whether to send them to Hogwarts or abroad... all the hard parts were compounded by being Harry Potter. The hardest choice for Harry was one most of the public didn’t know about: who should have his Invisibility Cloak.
Teddy wasn’t Harry’s son, but he was as good as. Teddy spent weekdays with Andromeda, and weekends with Harry and Ginny. When Teddy’s eleventh birthday was approaching, Harry thought about giving him the cloak. Teddy seemed responsible enough, with a bit of a trouble-making side, just like his father. Thinking about Remus convinced Harry not to give Teddy the cloak. The cloak seemed to have been more James/Sirius’s type of mischief than Remus’s, so Harry presented Teddy instead with an owl and the Marauder’s Map, something Harry was sure Remus would have at least mostly approved of.
James Sirius took after both his namesakes: incredibly charming with little to no regard for any rules or regulations. He would grin broadly at Molly and Ginny as he relinquished handfuls of stolen candies, and make puppy dog eyes when he had to go to bed before a Quidditch game was over. Harry thought for a while that he would give James the cloak. He was, after all, the next Potter boy, and the only one with “James” in his name, as Harry and his father had both had. But on the night before James’s birthday, Harry changed his mind. There was something about James that made Harry feel wrong about giving him the cloak. James would find his own way to cause mischief, like his grandfather had before him.
It was down to Albus and Lily. Lily would, if the legend was true, be the first girl to own the cloak in several generations. She was whip sharp and fierce, just like her mother. At only seven years old, she was beating James at chess and Albus at 1 on 1 Quidditch. Albus was quieter and more solitary than both of his siblings. Unlike James, who had black messy hair and millions of freckles, and Lily, who had red hair and Harry’s dark skin, Albus looked like a mini-Harry, and he seemed to act like one too. He cooked breakfast, sat quietly reading, got good marks in the Muggle school he attended, and controlled his magic better than either of his siblings. On the night of his eleventh birthday, Harry went into Albus’s room to tuck him into bed, and presented him with a brown paper package. Albus opened it curiously, having already opened all of his presents after dinner. “It’s a cloak?” “Try it on.” Albus wrapped himself in the cloak and Harry smiled at his reaction to his sudden invisibility. “It’s an invisibility cloak!” “This cloak has been in our family for hundreds of years. I want you to have it.” “But you don’t want me to cause trouble.” “Of course I want you to cause trouble!” Harry said, looking affronted, “What else is an invisibility cloak for? Just don’t tell Mum.” Albus smiled. “Got it. Good night, Dad.” “Good night, Albus.”
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