A Teddy in Colour
5. Quill

One day, Victorie gives him an odd looking quill. He tries writing in it – and he can't read it back because it's all in French.

He wonders if it's a prank – she is a Weasley after all – before realising that if he ever wants to marry her, he should probably know how to communicate with her mother's side of the family.

Her mother probably has the best English. And her aunt Gabrielle isn't so bad either. But their parents…and all those cousin aunts…

And though a part of his brain tells him it's really too early to think about marriage, he obligingly tries to learn French.

Though it's quite strange to have a quill teaching you.

And he wonders why Victorie gave it to him.

Maybe she's thinking about the future too.

Or maybe it's a way to sneak in notes under teacher's noses.

Though they're a year apart so they don't really have to worry about that.