Rainbow

Characters: Hedwig, Harry & Neville

Summary: Hedwig loves rainbows.

Rating: K

Warnings: None

It had rained for days, and Hedwig had not gone out to fly that whole time. She was lucky to have a human who knew that she didn't like to fly in the rain, so he only asked her to deliver a letter when it was very important. On those rainy days her Harry made sure to keep live mice for her, even though she couldn't exactly hunt them.

After the rain however, when the sun first came out from behind the clouds, she loved to fly. That was because of the rainbows. She knew that humans thought you could never get close to a rainbow, let alone touch one. But she, like most animals magical or not, knew that you could not only get close to rainbows you could touch them. So after the rain Hedwig would watch for the rainbow, sometimes more than one, to form and fly out after it. She loved to loop around, dive through and even just glide along the rainbow.

Every time she flew home she'd have a gift from the rainbow to give her human Harry. Sometimes a flower, other times small rare gems, even an orange mouse once. Because the mouse was still alive and unhurt when she gave it to Harry he kept it until it grew old and died. She knew that his favorite gift was the magical blue rose she brought back from a rainbow. Harry put it in water so it would stay nice as long as possible. The next morning however there was a small rose bush in the vase. When Harry gave a clipping to Neville, who was teaching at Hogwarts, he said he'd never seen anything like it. Neville planted the cutting at the base of Ravenclaw tower, and in about a month the Tower was covered in trailing blue roses.

Hedwig knew she would always love to fly rainbows, and she would always bring her Harry gifts from them. She did wonder if he would ever find the magic in all of her gifts, not just that one rose. Maybe if she were to bring him another rose, of a different color. Maybe green...

A.N.: I'm so sorry that this took so long to get out. I was hit with a major case of writers block on this chapter. Then to top that off I had an idea for this chapter, but it just would not write.

I have to say this chapter didn't turn out anything like I thought when I started it. (After getting past the writer's block.) Not that I really had any plan for this chapter other than Hedwig flying around rainbows.

I have heard others say that a chapter just wrote it's self , but never had one do that to me. Until now, this chapter had my fingers flying over the keyboard before I really knew what I was typing. That gave me more than a few typos, but I think I've found and fixed them all. If you find any mistakes I apologize but they are all mine, after all from start (the story it's self and this note) to finish this took less than an hour to write, and any mistakes left (after being beta'd) are my own.

I look forward to any reviews. As always I do ask that any reviews are kept civil. I don't mind criticisms, just be nice about them. Remember that if you feel the need to be a flaming butt-head you will be ignored and the flames used to toast marshmallows.

Next Time: Dancing, Harry & Ron.