Title: Summer Roses
Rating: G
Word count: 3,995
Characters: Neville Longbottom, Augusta Longbottom, OFC
Summary: "Surprising things can happen to any one who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place.

Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow."
Warnings: OC point of view
Notes: Originally written for hp_summergen, but didn't make it in time. Sigh. Title, summary, and a great deal of inspiration all come from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. shiiki, I tried to fit in your request for pre-Hogwarts education, but as I've no clue how the British school system works, that didn't quite pan out. I took a bit of liberty with the prompt. :) And much love to attilatehbun and queenb23more for looking it over, correcting my horrendous comma use/abuse, and assuring me that it didn't suck.

( Summer Roses )