Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter and if I did, I wouldn't be writing fan fiction.

This is from a writing challenge called "Aboard the Love Boat" by Kyota-chan.

1) Gnomes

"Hermione, dear, what do you say we go shopping at the mall? We can go to the toy store!" Her mother said to her one day.

"I guess, mommy…"

Six-year-old Hermione was put into the backseat of her mother's Ford Angela. They drove to the mall while talking about their garden.

"We need to go to the garden store, Mommy." Hermione said, "Because we need to protect our tomatoes with a scarecrow."

"Maybe not a scarecrow, sweetie." Her mom replied as they pulled into a spot in the parking lot.

They made the short walk to the door hand and hands. There were many people at the mall that day and they passed a very tall stern woman holding the hands of one of the two kids walking with her. The other was very skinny and wore glasses so strange that Hermione knew that he must be made fun of.

She tugged on her mom's hand and said, "Mommy? That woman," she pointed at the stern woman, "her sons are so different! That one's so skinny and the other looks like he's an elephant!"

"Hermione! It's not nice to make fun of people." Her mother said while looking around to see if anyone had heard her daughter.

She steered her to the gardening store, not knowing that the family that Hermione had made fun of had also gone to the gardening store.

As they walked by a huge display of gnomes, the young boy from before came out from behind it.

"Excuse me; do you have any food with you? My cousin ate it all this morning for breakfast."

Hermione's mom just walked by and said, "Sorry, no." and muttered something about underfed children to herself as she walked over to a second display on gnomes, but Hermione reached inside her pocket and handed Harry the lollipop that she was saving for later.

"Here, I don't really need this…and you look like you need something to eat."

"Thanks. I haven't eaten since yesterday at lunch."

A/N-This will not be in order from now on…I'm going to write it in the order that they were listed on the prompt (even though it says I don't have to). If it is important (or maybe always) I will put an age indicator or year indicator to make it more clear. Please Read and Review.