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Published: 2013-04-12 20:09:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 41225; Favourites: 615; Downloads: 0
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I'm sorry for uploading something sad today, but I had this idea a few days ago and just had to draw it. I don't even know if my bubbly drawing style is suitable for a drawing like this, and I had to change the style for Ted's body a bit to get it right, but I still like it a lot and hope you enjoy it too.I thought that maybe Teddy Tonks found the Mirror of Erised one night and found himself - unknowingly - just in the same place as Harry had been so many years before. I can imagine that the sadness of his loss simply overwhelms him and makes his hair go the same mousy brown his mother's showed while she was heartbroken.
But I'm also sure that Teddy can not be let down for long, and eventually the pride of what his parents did for the wizarding world and the love and care of his friends get him all turquoise again.
Edit: to the person who posted this to tumblr [link] - THANKS! I can't believe it got such an incredible amount of notes (and they are still counting up like crazy!). This really means a lot to me.
Edit 2: I fixed Remus' face a bit - put up his eyes a little higher so he looks more mature, and not like he's happily smiling down at his devastated son. My intention was for both of them to look happy, just like Teddy would like them to be. After all, it's his heart's wish that the mirror shows.
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why?! beautiful painting Β but agufkihog!! T_T
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Hey, I did a cosplay shoot based in this drawing and I thought you might like to see it! I don't know if you have a tumblr but it's here:Β actualteddylupin.tumblr.com/poβ¦
Thanks so much for the inspiration and the heart-wrenching art!
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Wow this is amazing, thank you so, so much!!! 
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I bet he would be sad... But he had so many adult role models growing up, and friends, I'm sure he would be happy. Great pic!
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I think one of the major differences I would see between these two was that Harry had literally NEVER seen his parents before he came across this (he got the photo book at the end of that book.) He had never known anyone who had known his parents when he found the mirror except a handful of people and even then, it's not like they gave him a huge account of what they had been like. Plus it was, of course, his entire family he saw and not just his parents in the mirror. ^-^
Teddy would have grown up knowing his parents faces, knowing their personality and their heroic deeds.
This is still a positively heart breaking but also heartwarming picture because he could see himself actually being with his parents. Getting his hair ruffled by his dad as his mom makes her hair match his or something when they're bored.
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Thank you for sharing your thoughts!
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Lol. Sorry. In hindsight, that actually seemed kind of rude. x.x
Still a super good picture.
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Rude? Why? I didn't perceive it as that, no worries
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Awesome. It was just, it's one of those kind of comments that doesn't NEED to be said, which is why I said I felt it was kind of rude. ^-^
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haha no, I love hearing other people's opinions on Harry Potter stuffs
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Well awesome. I'm always happy to talk about Harry Potter!!
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Heartbreaking, and your lovely and cheerful style makes it more so. Γ§___Γ§ But really well drawn. Thanks for sharing!!
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Really good. Sad, but good. The watercolors look great too!
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Β Β Β Β Β nuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! Teddyyyy! I loved Remus.... so why did he (and tonks) need to DIEEE! nuuuuuuu!
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Nope. Lupin and Tonks didn't die. i'm still in denial. They're both alive and Teddy still has parents. they're a happy family.
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Teddy.....
My heart broke when Lupin and Tonks died.....
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Holy crap I hope you have read this:
"NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO.
But also YES.
Because for me this is a pretty important part of the final battle. A lot of folks accused JKR of just wanting to kill people off, and Lupin and Tonks were one of the major βsinsβ in that category. But for me, one of the major themes of her books is vicious cycle of violence, and another is the ways ordinary people can break that cycle. Itβs important that we know that Harry doesnβt stop all the pain, that heβs not the last war orphan. Just like the first War, parents and adults have to make choices, choices with consequences.
Like James and Lily, Lupin and Tonks didnβt risk their lives to defeat Voldemort. They gave their lives for each other, because no one person should bear the weight of the sacrifice. They gave their lives for their son, who deserved a better world. They gave their lives for love, not for victory.
I think itβs important to see the ways Voldemortβs evil creates these cycles, children taken from their parents and parents taken from their children, again and again. I think itβs an important sobering note in the victoryβyes, this time Voldemort is really dead, but thereβs another baby this time, another infant who will never know his beautiful, wonderful parents because of Voldemort and his message of hate and violence. Another child who will grow up wondering where he came from, what his parents were like, what would be different if they were alive.
But itβs also beautiful that Teddy will have such a different experience. And his experience will not be different because Voldemort is βreally gone.β His experience will be different because his grandmother will tell him about his brilliant mom. Because Harry will tell him about his wonderful dad. Because Harry will help him deal with his pain and loss, be a sympathetic ear who understands what itβs like to grow up without your parents. Because the Weasleys will welcome him as another grandchild, and heβll grow up with Victoire to throw dirt at, and James as a little brother. His experience wonβt be different because Harry won a war, it will be different because of love.
Thatβs the whole story of Harry Potter. Sometimes we have to fight for whatβs right, but what really makes life worth living and what really changes the world isnβt magic or power or moral superiority. Itβs love." -padfootstolemycrumpet
(^for the lazies)
tumblr link: [link]
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ISN'T IT? I had to share!
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Was about to post this too. Great bit of thought on it.
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this is an instant favourite! well executed!
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wow haha, interesting to see where my stuff pops up! 
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Teddy, I hope you know that they died fighting to save the world for you so you could have the chance to grow up. /ugly sobbing
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Better question: why did my brain do this to ME? I had to draw it! D:
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New Deviant ID by the way
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This actually made me cry - it is so simple and beautiful and full of emotions - amazing
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aww don't cry! 
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This made me cry the first time I saw it on Pinterest. I'm so glad I found it here, so I could pin it and give you proper credit!
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It's on pinterest now too? O.o Would you mind linking me to it please? I only know that it was posted to tumblr.
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Here's the pin I first saw: [link]
And I pinned it to my Fan Art: Harry Potter board: [link]
(Sorry, I'm posting from my iPad, and can't remember the HTML for a proper link.)
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Thanks a lot! ^-^ it is a proper link, DA does that automatically when you paste a link into a comment.
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OMG I've seen this in so many places and I never knew who was the artist. Suddenly I found it and WOA OMG, I LOVE IT REALLY, YOU'RE AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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