A/N - February 4
Prompt: Wings
Characters: Justin Finch-Fletchley, Beauxbatons student
Rating: K
Takes place during GoF
The horse snuffled and pushed its head further into Justin's hand. Justin rubbed the velvety skin around the horse's nose with a smile.
"Zey are manifique, no?" a voice said to his left. Justin turned to see one of the Beauxbatons students walking towards him.
"They are," he agreed.
"Zey are Abraxan, ze largest of ze winged 'orses." The girl leaned her forearms against the fence that enclosed the horses, just as one partially spread its wings and shook them slightly.
"Beautiful," Justin whispered.
"Zey must like you. Zey do not normally let strangers pet zem." Justin smiled and patted the horse once more before it ambled off toward the feeding trough.
"My mother raises horses," he explained. "I've been around them my entire life."
"What kind?" the girl asked. He chuckled.
"Before today, I would have said the finest horses in all of Britain." She looked at him in confusion. "I'm Muggle-born, so they're just regular horses."
"Ah," she said in understanding. One of the Abraxan spread its wings again, more fully this time.
"I've been here four years now and I'm still amazed by something nearly every day." The girl gave him a smile before turning back to the paddock. They both stood in companionable silence, watching the magnificent creatures in front of them.