For owluvr's Character Diversity Challenge
Character: James Sirius Potter
Prompt: Snitch
Word Count: 236
James Sirius Potter was a cute baby. He was the exact mix of his parents- auburn hair, hazel eyes smattered with green, and his smile seemed to light up the whole room.
Out of their circle of friends, including Neville and Hannah, Luna and Rolf, Ron and Hermione – Ginny and Harry were the first to have a baby. It had only been five years since the war had ended, and even thought the dust was far from settling, things were much, much better now.
When James was a year old, he got into everything, magically sealed or not. His parents marvelled at how much trouble he got himself into, and the extraordinary amounts of magical incidents that seemed to happen around him.
He eventually found something in his fathers' desk drawer, the topmost one – a shiny golden ball, and when James wrapped his chubby fingers around the ball, feather-like wings unwrapped themselves from around the ball and started flapping, gently. The toddler stared, mesmerized, his chubby fingers trying to grasp the little ball that was floating around his head, tantalizingly out of reach.
What was he supposed to do? He had to get that ball. And for the first time of his life, he pushed himself up onto his baby feet, and took a single, shaky step, capturing the little balll tightly.
James Sirius Potter had just caught the snitch for the first time.
