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oodlyenough:

oodlyenough:

i always forget and am re-surprised by how much of hp fandom thinks immediately after the battle of hogwarts, harry and ginny and their teenage PTSD decided to raise newborn teddy lupin together, good god

nevermind i’m still on this, i just

harry potter has been living in a tent for a year and ginny weasley has been leading a secret rebellion at hunger games hogwarts and they are, like, 17, do not saddle these poor children with a newborn that isn’t even theirs

let them live

harry has to nap for the next sixteen months and ginny has to go become a lesbian icon playing for the harpies

let andromeda the adult with childrearing experience raise her only living family member omg

I re-read the epilogue last night, and I’m not sure why people would even argue about this, because it’s canon that Teddy does not live with the Potters.

“Oh, it would be lovely if they got married!” whispered Lily ecstatically. “Teddy would really be part of the family then!”

“He already comes round for dinner about four times a week,” said Harry. “Why don’t we just invite him to live with us and have done with it?”

“Yeah!” said James enthusiastically. “I don’t mind sharing with Al – Teddy could have my room!”

“No,” said Harry firmly, “you and Al will share a room only when I want the house demolished.”

From this exchange, we see that:

1. Teddy, at 19, does not currently live with the Potters.
2. Lily does not consider Teddy to “really” be part of the family, so they cannot have been raised in the same household as siblings.
3. There is an established pattern of Teddy visiting the Potters for meals multiple times a week.
4. Harry says “invite him to live with us”, not “invite him to move back in with us”.
5. There is no bedroom in the Potter house set aside for Teddy, and James and Albus have never shared a room up to this point.

So no, Teddy does not and never has lived full time with the Potters. That being the case, it may be assumed that he was raised by his grandmother.