Notes: This for the 6th June Hogwarts Online prompt 'strawberries'. My thanks go to tat1312 for the help.


Victoire is just so different (gifted, says the paediatrician), and from a young age, she feels it. She doesn't want to play with the other children, and they don't want to play with her. She's beautiful in this proud-but-unconscious kind of way; already, Bill just knows the boys will fall over her.

It's not easy being different, and one day, while Victoire is standing on the edge, he goes up to her and says, "You look like the sky's just fallen down around you."

Their way of saying, "Are you alright?"

His little girl just shakes her head. "Daddy, what do you think of strawberries?"

The fruit that everyone likes. Teddy had said that to her, Bill remembered, when he gave her the strawberry she'd looked so doubtfully at.

Bill also remembered her disgusted expression as she ate it, and though it's a lie, he says, "Don't worry, Vic. I don't like them, either."

After that day, he never eats a strawberry again.