A/N: Written for the 19,000 Prompts, 500 Words, One Week Challenge by andthearrowflies on the HPFC Forum. Prompt: 'to grandmother's house'
The Gift of a Day
It was late evening by the time Harry brought five-year-old Teddy back to Andromeda's place. Teddy had been wriggling and giggling all afternoon, but on the way home, he'd begged to be carried and had fallen asleep in Harry's arms. Now a dead weight with bright blue hair, Harry had to shift him several times so that he could use the door knocker.
'I've brought him back,' he said, when Andromeda opened the door. She smiled when she saw them.
'Tire him out, did you?'
'He tired himself out,' protested Harry, surrendering Teddy into her arms and rubbing his own aching ones. 'I took him the zoo and he couldn't stop looking at all the brightly-coloured parrots, and then they flew away, and I had to catch him ... Same time on Tuesday?'
Andromeda nodded. 'Thank you, Harry. It's ... it's hard raising him sometimes, with only me, you know ... I'm just glad he's growing up safe and happy.'
'No problem,' Harry said, thinking of another boy who'd been orphaned at a young age, but had been starved for love, not surrounded by loving relation and godfather. 'See you later.'