Challenge: Fire the Canon's Character of the Week Drabble Competition, on HPFC.
Characters: Rolanda Hooch, OC (Johannah Selwyn-Hooch, Linda James)
Prompt: Yellow
Word count: 180
"You can be anything you want," Rolanda cooed, cuddling the little baby girl to her chest. Her daughter, the babies' mother, peered at her, her amusement apparent.
"Anything, huh? That's not what you and dad told me."
The gray haired forty-something woman, tilted her head, tickling the baby under the chin, refusing to meet her daughters midnight blue gaze. "We did so."
"No," she said, "I distinctly remember you telling me that if I was a Badger, you'd never forgive me."
"That was just a joke," Rolanda insisted, but she still wasn't meeting her daughters gaze. Johannah decided that she was lying.
"What's wrong with Hufflepuff, mum? Don't you like kindness?"
"There's nothing wrong with kindness," she protested, looking up and coming face to face with a bright yellow dress.
"What do you think? Will Ned like it?"
"He'll hate it. It's yellow, Johannah!"
Her daughter grinned evilly. "So that's the problem with Hufflepuff. Yellow."
"Shut up," Rolanda snapped, blushing brightly at being found out. "I just don't like being cheerful all the time."
"Liar, liar, pants on fire."
"Honestly!"