A/N: This was written for UbiquitousTime's Irrational Fears Challenge. I had Harry, chewing gum, and the prompts glue, plaster, white, and sticky. So yeah. May I present to you…
The Three Reasons Why I Will Never Accept Gum.

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Not very many people knew why Harry Potter, the Boy-Who-Lived, never accepted a piece of chewing gum. One cool June evening, Harry gathered his three children around for a bedtime story and told them about the multiple reasons why he was so paranoid about gum. By the end of it, they were rolling around on the floor, laughing their heads off.

"Dad, why don't you ever accept gum from anyone?" ten-year old James Sirius Potter had asked, after he had turned down a piece of gum for the umpteenth time. James was trying to prank his father, but Harry had never taken the piece of gum and James had gotten frustrated.

"Well, I don't accept gum from you because you have that look in your eyes that you get whenever you plan a prank," Harry replied. "But as to why I never accept any from anyone…that's another story."

"Why? What happened?" eight-year-old Albus Severus asked eagerly.

"Multiple things," Harry said, waving his hand. "For example, one time Uncle George mixed some Weasley's Wizard Wheezes super-glue in it and it glued my mouth shut for five hours."

Lily snickered. "I remember one time I did the same thing to Al!" she said. "It was hilarious!"

"That was you? You said it was James!" Al yelled, crossing his arms.

"You are quite devious, my sister," James said, grinning at Lily.

"I try."

"Well, what are the other reasons Dad?" asked James eagerly.

"One time during Hogwarts rebuilding, Aunt Hermione transfigured a piece of plaster into a piece of gum and gave it to me. As soon as I bit into it, it turned back to plaster, and it was quite nasty."

James fell out of his chair laughing. Ginny smirked at Harry, laughing herself.

"And the last time," said Harry, glaring at Ginny, "your mother gave me a piece of gum that in reality was some white sticky thing and I still don't know what it was." Harry shuddered and Ginny snickered.

"And to this day, I will never accept a piece of gum," finished Harry. "Okay, story-times over. Time for bed."

James, Al, and Lily went upstairs. Harry glanced at James' piece of gum and pocketed it.

Two weeks later Ginny was darting around the kitchen screaming "Ahhhh! Get it off! Get it off!"

A mouse was crawling all over her, her piece of gum had turned into a rodent! Laughing, Harry walked over and tossed it out the window. Ginny glared at him.

"Ah, revenge is sweet," Harry said, taking her hand and smirking at her, "Now do you understand why I'm afraid of gum?"

Two seconds later bat-boogies were attacking him. Screaming and laughing he ran around the room, as Ginny clutched the counter, tears streaming down her face as she laughed.

A/N: Yeah, short little one-shot. Hope you liked it! Review please?

-Winged Quill