Title: Accidental Peacock
Rating: General
Word Count: 490
Warnings: None
Hermione walked into the solarium expecting to see her husband and son. What she wasn't expecting was her two-year-old sitting on the floor 'playing' with one of the beautiful white peacocks that roamed the Manor grounds.
Kneeling next to the two Hermione smiled at her son then glared a second to the peacock, who seemed offended at the glare. "Don't give me that attitude, not after the way your lot treat me when I'm walking the grounds. I know Lucius trained your family to attack me at every chance, he told me so. He's just lucky I never told Draco."
At that declaration, the peacock began honking as if he was outraged by the comment.
"Daddy peacock." Scorpius giggled out.
Hermione laughed, "No, baby, this is one of your Papa's peacocks. We should let him back out so we can find your Daddy. We have a special surprise for him today." Rubbing her lower abdomen, she went to stand only to watch the petulant peacock rise to his feet, honking with his tail feathers expanding wide, showing the true beauty of the animal, as he made his way closer to Hermione. This action forcing her to look the bloody bird in the eyes. Eyes that were the same as Draco's.
Gasping, her hand covering her mouth, she inquired, "Draco? How in the world?"
The peacock actually seemed to sigh in relief as his head tipped toward Scorpius, who was walking to the back of the bird, pulling on the tail feathers, causing a wide eyed peacock to turn on the child honking his disapproval of the child's actions.
"Draco, stop he's just a toddler." Hermione reprimanded.
The bird looked at her and huffed. She just rolled her eyes, plopping down on the floor, "I know this is bad, but he did magic, that's exciting."
'Can peacocks smirk?' she thought as she looked to her husband.
The clicking of heels and heavier footsteps echoed over the Manor floor as Hermione and the peacock looked to the door just as Lucius and Narcissa entered the room. Narcissa looked to see her daughter in law and grandson on the floor with one of the Manor's peacocks between them.
"Ms. Granger." Lucius drawled.
"Malfoy!" He was quickly corrected by Hermione, Narcissa, and the piercing honking peacock, that began biting at his ankle.
"What in the bloody—" Lucius stopped as the animal continued.
"Draco, stop!" Hermione called out as Draco continued to back his father out of the room, while 'yelling' at his father.
"Did you say Draco?" Narcissa asked.
Beaming with just a bit of pride, Hermione said, "Scorp did his first bout of accidental magic."
"Oh my, while that is exciting, we should really turn him back." Narcissa said.
"Give it a minute, Draco just found out Lucius trained the peacocks to attack me on the grounds." Hermione thought she could hold off on the baby announcement this was much more exciting.