Hey everyone. This story was written for both Divination: Methods of Divination assignment, and Angel's Event: The Pumpkin Patch on Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. For Divination: Methods of Divination I chose Task 4 which was to write about someone breaking a bone. For Angel's Event: The Pumpkin Patch my prompt was A9: (dialogue) "You're kidding.". I hope you all enjoy Just Like Him. Word Count is 551.
"You shouldn't do that," Lily Luna pointed out as her older brother James Sirius started to climb up the trunk of the tallest tree in the yard. He'd been threatening to do this all summer. "You could get hurt."
"I won't either," James snapped at Lily hazel eyes rolling about how much of a mom Lily was being. "I'm going to climb to the top of this tree and it's going to be fun. There's nothing you can do to stop me."
"I'm telling Mummy."
She ran off towards the house to go to their mother what her oldest son was doing. James on the other hand began his ascent into the tree the rough bark scraping up his hands. But that didn't matter this was the most fun he'd had in ages. Besides of course playing Quidditch.
"What are you doing?" Albus called up to him.
"Climbing the tree like I said I was going to do when we got home from Hogwarts," James shouted down to his brother not breaking his concentration away from his task of climbing.
"I'm coming up too," Albus called beginning his own ascent into the tree.
Both boys were partway up the tree when their mother's voice came flying towards as shrill if not shriller than Grandma Molly's. "What do the two of you think you're doing up there," Ginny screamed up at her sons. "Get here down here now."
"Come on, Mum," sighed James. "You're no fun." He put his hand down thinking it was near the tree but he felt nothing under his hand as the other hand slipped away from the tree.
Down. Down. Down. He flew praying that the fall wouldn't kill him out right. Maybe his sister and mother had been right about climbing the tree. Maybe he should have done it to begin with. It felt like he'd been falling for hours when he made impact with the ground.
Crack!
James let out a shrill scream of pain and his arm now hung from very odd angle. His mother rushed over to him and picked him up trying hard not touch his arm.
"We have to get to you to St. Mungos," she told James. "I think you've got a broken arm, young man." She sighed as she carried him to fireplace. She was going to Floo him to St. Mungos. "Albus stay here with Lily and tell your father where we are when he gets home in a few minutes."
"Okay, Mum," Albus told her feet now firmly on the ground.
It didn't take long for James to be seen once they reached St. Mungos and true to Ginny's words James did have a broken arm. They gave James this horrible tasting potion and said that he had to stay at St. Mungos tonight as Harry raced into the room the other children following after him.
"You're kidding?" Harry asked. "Right?"
James shook his head. "No," he sighed. "I've got a stupid broken arm."
"At least you have bones in your arm. I can you about a time when I had all the bones removed from my arm. It was both funny and horrible at the same time." Harry chuckled to himself as he thought about how his oldest was turning out to be just like him.
I hope you all enjoyed Just Like Him.
