Title: Baby Steps
Author: loonynamelass
Prompt: Swimming
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Warnings/Notes: It's like riding a bicycle- you never forget.
"Swimming?"
"Oh, Harry, the kids are so excited! Come on! It's not like you can't-" Laughter ebbed out as understanding in.
"No?" He directed his smoldering face downward. He would never be able to put his incomplete childhood behind him, would he?
"Surviving the Second Task-"
"Gillyweed."
"Sixth year, the Prefect bath-"
"I was tall, and paddled around…"
"Daddy don' know how to swim?" investigatory green eyes arrived. "I'll show him!" an unfinished grin announced. The eldest refuted, "No, I'm showin' him! It's different for guys 'cos we wear trunks!"
On second thought, redeeming his childhood wouldn't be a problem.
Second A/N: I had an alternate ending for this one, in which Ginny lets her beach towel fall to the sand/floor to drape her arm reassuringly around him, saying "Don't worry; I'll teach you" and Harry thinks to himself he figured he could a) not worry, and b) learn well as he effectively ogles her muggle bathing suit.
Oh, and if you don't know how to swim- gender has nothing to do with it. ;)