- I've seen multiple fics like this, but I've never liked how the future generation characters are portrayed in them. So, I decided to try and do the 10 Things fics with my own versions of the characters. I'll start with my personal favorite, ASP, and continue with various other characters if I get asked to.
Disclaimer: If Harry Potter belonged to me, I wouldn't be wasting my time on fanfiction. I would be writing more books about the Marauder's and founders and future generations right now.
Albus Severus Potter
1) He can't fly a broom at all; it doesn't matter that his father is the famed youngest seeker or his mother was a professional chaser.
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Albus can remember the first time his father tried to teach him to ride a broom. His mother and Uncles had wanted in on it, naturally, but his father had insisted that it was something for just father and son to do. Albus supposed it had to do with the fact that Harry had not been present when Ginny had taught James, having been dragged away on an Auror mission, and had been very bothered not to witness his oldest son's first hours on a broom. He was completely determined to be the one to teach Albus when the time came and Ginny gave him the honor.
And so, Harry gladly took on the task of teaching Albus.
He hadn't thought that it would be that hard of a task; after all, surely those Weasely and Potter genes would cause Albus to be - just like his brother - one of the most talented quiddich players to ever attend Hogwarts. Surely Albus would prove himself a born natural in the first few moments of flying.
The six year old seemed to have other plans.
Within the first ten minutes he had fallen off the broom a grand total of seven times and flown into three different bushes. Harry was absolutely relieved that he had not taken the boy up too high for his first lesson, as he had almost been tempted to at first.
Albus didn't even seem to enjoy flying at all. He whimpered whenever the wind blew and clutched onto his broom with all the strength he could muster; Harry thought he looked quite miserable indeed. But the boy refused to say so; he may have been too young to realize what he was expected to live up to, but even at that young age the boy was certain that James would tease him endlessly about it when they returned home. Therefore, he seemed determined to prove that yes, he could too fly a broom just as well as James.
Finally, after a particularly bad fall - resulting in a bloody knee and lots of tears - Harry told the boy to dismount. Albus had stared up at his father nervously, as if expecting to be punished for his failure.
Harry would have been lying if he had said he wasn't disappointed - he had, after all, expected that quiddich would be a love he could share with both his sons - but it was painfully obvious that flying was never going to be a skill his youngest son possessed.
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