A/N: I don't own Harry Potter
This is for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Assignment #6
Divination: Lines of Palmistry
Task #2 Write about someone learning something
Word count: 450
"Like this, Ginny. You hold the needles like this." Ginny stared at the long wooden sticks, each ending with a point.
"Why do I need to learn to knit?"
"Because, it's tradition. Every new mother learns to knit."
"Can't I just buy him clothes?"
"It's cheaper to knit, and if you do it right, you can enchant the clothes to grow with him. I never really got that part right though..." Ginny sighed picking up the needles and the yarn again. She had been trying to learn how to knit for the last few months, each attempt ending badly. She was starting to wonder if maybe she was just cursed or something. Ron had managed to figure it out...she had no idea why he'd wanted to learn. So far, her latest attempt at a hat had managed to grow legs and become what appeared to be a lopsided octopus. Baby James actually loved it at least.
"No, Ginny, it's knit one, purl two, remember." She nearly glared at her mum. Did she really think Ginny was making a mess of this on purpose?
"Sorry," Ginny whispered attacking the yarn again. She was supposed to be making a hat, a little blue hat, for James.
"Umm, Ginny, you're hat sprouted tentacles again," Ron commented, his mouth full of cake. Ginny wondered where he'd found cake and if there was any left. Ginny stared at her hat, now once again, an octopus.
"What the bloody hell did you do my needles?" she asked glaring at Ron.
"Language, Ginny!"
"He enchanted my needles, that's why it's not working!" she yelled throwing them at Ron. He dodged them laughing.
"Took you long enough to figure it out, but you're blaming the wrong brother," George commented walking into the room. Ginny glared at the both of them before storming out taking her hat/octopus with her.
Later that night, with a new pair of needles she'd bought herself, she picked up the yarn and started slowly trying to knit a hat.
"Hey, that one does look like a hat, I thought you were making James another octopus."
"Mum says I need to learn to make clothes for him, besides, it's been kind of fun to learn to knit. Just imagine all the things I could make," she said with a smirk. She held the hat up, it had ears woven into the sides.
"Think George will like it?' she asked. Harry sighed wondering what George had done to deserve the ear hat. Part of him had a feeling he really, really didn't want to know. Another part was glad Ginny had found a new hobby to do until she could play with the Harpies again.