Questions
"Dad?"
Ron looked up from his newspaper, and looked at Hugo who was standing by the kitchen table. His head just above the countertop, and he was looking more than a bit confused.
"Alright Hugo?"
Hugo didnt respond, but shuffled his feet and looked at the floor.
"What have you done?" Ron sensed trouble. Another broken vase perhaps, locked Pig in the cupboard again? What ever it was, it wasn't good.
"I was just thinking about something..."
"Oh?"
"Well... you know Uncle George and Aunt Angelina are having another baby?"
Ron gulped his tea and nearly choked. Please don't let this be going where I think it is...
"Yes?"
"Well, I just wandered how the baby got there. Did it apperate in?"
Ron chuckled, placed his coffee down and turned his chair towards Hugo. Hermione had taken Rose with her to do a spot of shopping, so there was no getting out of it.
"Well. The thing is Hugo-"
"Because, if it apperated in, does that mean it apperates out when it's ready, and how do you know when the baby's going to be here? Is there a time on Aunty Angelina, will it go ping when its done, like the microwave?"
"I dont-"
"And isnt it illegal to apperate without a license ? Won't the baby go to Azkaban?"
"No Hu-"
"And Aunty Ginny told me to ask you because she said she didn't know the answers"
Oh she did !
Ron looked at Hugo with a baffled expression. Where the hell did he get his ideas? Ron found it very hard not to crack up laughing, and tried to stay serious.
"Hugo, I dont have a clue how the microwave works, your mother wanted a few muggle items in the house so you would know more about how she works without magic"
"Oh right, so...?"
"Babies don't get in- per say, they're sort of made there, they start off there, and then they come out"
He could hear Hermione's voice in the back of his head 'Oh Ronald, such a way with words...'
"Oh" Hugo said looking surprised.
Hugo pulled back the chair opposite his father and climbed onto it. He kneeled on the seat, and leant his head on his hands, looking straight at Ron with those lovely eyes, Hermione's eyes. At that moment, Ron was looking at Hermione. Nobody saw it but Ron, but when ever Hermione was thinking and solving, she would have this look on her face, of deep determination and curiosity, and Hugo was wearing it right now.
"So, if they're made there, what are the ingredients?"
Ron looked around the room for help, anything that could get him out of this situation. Hugo was only seven, where were all of these questions coming from ? He looked at Hermione's cook books on the shelf and cast around wildly.
"Well, look at yourself for example. It's different for everyone, there are different ingredients. Look, what have you go that say, James and Albus haven't?"
Hugo grinned "My hair"
"Exactly, so for you the ingredients would be some of me, the red hair, the freckles, the extremley good looks-" Hugo laughed "- and then some from your Mum, the brown eyes, your personality, your height, because lets face it, by your age I was twice the size of you"
"Round the middle maybe" Hugo grinned
"Oi!" Ron swiped him with the newspaper, but Hugo ducked "And that's why everyone looks different"
"But what about when Aunt Angelina has her baby? How is it going to get out?"
"Ron, I'm home, I got you some of that fudge cake you like, it was on sale today-" Hermione's voice floated towards him from the front door, and Ron looked towards the hall. He looked back at Hugo.
"They use the floo network Hugo". He tapped his sons head and went to great Hermione, taking the bags off of her and giving Rosie a kiss, leaving Hugo sitting at the table with his eye-brows raised.
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Oh Ron! What ever will we do with you! Hugo is my favourite next generation character and his personality is such a mix of Ron and Hermione's.
Coming up : Hermione being interupted washing her hair in the river during the hunt, awkward Ron situations hopefully ! Have you any suggestions for 'S' as I have a few but none of them seem good enough? And I always trust the view of my beloved readers :)
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