A Logical Fallacy - R/Hr - G
Author: shocolate
Title: A Logical Fallacy
Rating: G
Word Count: 335
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"So, Rosie Posie, you're gonna be a big sister," Ron said, fastening her dungarees and kneeling to lace up her shoes. "You're gonna have to go to Aunt Ginny's while Mummy works hard to, um…"

"Push the baby out, Daddy," Rose supplied helpfully.

"Yes," he said. "Good. So. I'll take you through the Floo and leave you with Aunt Ginny, and you can play with the cousins, while I look after Mummy."

"Is Uncle Harry gonna be here, to look after you?" she asked, hopping down from her bed.

"Yes," Ron said. "Yes, he is."

"Good."

"Yes."

"I can't play with Lily," she said. "She's too little."

"No, I know," he said. "Lily is brand new, like our new baby is gonna be. But you can play with the boys."

"Boys," Rose said scornfully, sounding so much like her mother had done for nearly twenty years that Ron had to bite his lip.

"What's wrong with boys?" he asked.

"They're loud and dirty and mean and…"

"I had loads of brothers," he interrupted.

"And?" she asked.

"Yeah, they can be loud and dirty and mean," he admitted. "But they can also be… well… they can be… helpful and, um…"

"I'm gonna have a sister," Rose said firmly. "Like Lily."

"Might be a boy," Ron said for the three hundredth time since the Mediwitch had told them it was a boy.

"Might be a girl," she countered.

"Well, the thing is," Ron said seriously. "I've got my little girl, but Mummy would quite like a little boy."

Rose frowned at him.

"Like you?" she said.

"Absolutely," Ron said encouragingly. "Mummy would love to make a Little Ron."

"No, she wouldn’t," Rose said firmly. "She said so."

"She did?" Ron asked plaintively. "When?"

"When I took Jamie's toy hipplegriff and Mummy told me to give it back and I told Mummy that he had broken my teapot," she explained.

"And?" he prompted.

"And she said that that was Ron, and that two Rons don't make it right."