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Written for Clever Ink Slingers' Holiday Spirit: Halloween Boot Camp Challenge! Wish me luck as this will be my first time writing for a boot camp!
Prompt Used: Pumpkin
Pairing: No Pairings
A/N: These drabbles/oneshots will be on the short side as I'm doing NaNoWriMo and I also want to keep on posting a new chapters when I can.
So Small yet So Big
"I do not understand," a four year old Teddy said as he sat on the kitchen table swinging his legs, "How can something that small turn into something as big as a pumpkin?"
"Because it will grow," Harry replied as he showed Teddy the pumpkin seeds he had purchased at the local garden centre earlier that day while Teddy was at school, "We plant them and water them and help them to grow. By the time Halloween comes along in a few months time we should have our own home grown pumpkins to carve."
"But we will not be able to carve the pumpkins," Teddy said shaking his head in disbelief, "It will be impossible."
"No it is not, I saw my aunt do it with my cousin one year for Halloween, it really works," Harry said as he kept back the bit about him doing all the hard work, "I am an old hand in the garden pup, trust me."
"I do trust you Uncle Harry," Teddy replied unsurely, "But I think you are going insane in your old age if you think that a pumpkin big enough for carving and to put a candle inside it will come out of that seed."
"Do you now?" Harry asked with a raised eyebrow, "And where do you think we will find a pumpkin big enough to become our Halloween Jack-O-Lantern?"
"Why at Uncle Neville's home of course!" Teddy said as if it was the most obvious thing in the whole wide world, "He always has lots of stuff like this in his garden and house and green house. We could just get one off of Uncle Neville."
"We could," Harry said unsurely as he nodded his head, "You have a point Teddy and depending on how things go with our Pumpkin growing we will get one from Uncle Neville."
"But a Pumpkin will not come out of that little tiny seed!" Teddy said again with a dramatic sigh causing Harry to chuckle, "It would be fun to see if we could grow a pumpkin Teddy, plus I thought you enjoyed helping me out in the garden, you have helped me to grow plants before."
"I do enjoy working in the garden with you Uncle Harry," Teddy said with a nod of his head, "But all of those plants we gree where already grown or came from something big and round, a blub right Uncle Harry?, while you are saying that a pumpkin will come out of that tinie tiny seed?"
"How about we grow it so you can find out?" Harry suggested realising he would not be able to win, "Then if we manage to grow our very own pumpkin we can make it into a Jack-O-Lantern for this Halloween."
"Okay, I will do it with you Uncle Harry," Teddy replied causing Harry to smile happily, "If only to prove to you that something so big like a pumpkin can't come out of something so small like that seed."
Harry gave Teddy a secretive smile; his Godson would have a big surprise come Halloween.
Until the next prompt...