Untitled.
Words: 564
Couple: Hermione Granger and Oliver Wood.
Books: Harry Potter
Disclaimer: All recognized characters belong to J.K. Rowling
AU OoTP
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He arrives at Grimmuld Place, covered in mud and soaked through from the rain. His Puddlemore United uniform had seen better days.
He moves through the dark hallway, careful of the umbrella stand and ensuring he doesn't bump into the bookshelf. There are voices, softly making there way down the hall, hitting his ears in short bursts and snippets. Oliver holds back on joining the meeting, trudging through to the kitchen instead.
Molly Weasley greets him with the same broad smile as always, chastising him for the mud that drops off his shoes whenever he moves. She makes comments about 'those quidditch boys' and how their obsession is going to drive them into constant illness if they kept going this way.
Oliver never has the heart to argue with her, Mrs. Weasley always having everyone's best interests at heart. Even the drifters like him, floating in an out of the Order headquarters once every few weeks over the summer, only staying long enough to eat, shower and report any news he had to any of the senior members there.
Until sitting down at the kitchen table to find Hermione Granger frantically scratching quill against parchment, he had yet to run into any of the younger ones hiding around the large house. Remus had told him that Molly was putting them to work, making the old place fit to be lived in. And he supposed that having been given a short reprieve; it would only be natural for Hermione Granger to study.
Oliver scans the books that surround the wizard stopping on one that was most definitely not a textbook, and reached across the table for it. The spine was cracked, and the corners of the paperback's cover were worn. Carefully pursuing the pages, he takes in the dog-eared pages and smiles at how well read the book looked.
"'On a very hot evening, at the beginning of July, a young man left his little room at the top of a house in Carpenter Lane,'" Hermione says, and when Oliver looks up at her he finds her eyes have not left the parchment in front of her.
"I guess you've read it a lot then?"
"It's one of my favourites."
Pursing his lips and flipping back to the start, he finds those exact words printed on the page. Oliver continues, taking in the words on the pages before him, only stopping to thank Mrs. Weasley for the soup she placed before him.
Even after Molly leaves the kitchen, the pair stay exactly where they were. The only noises in the room the sound of her quill, and his spoon hitting the bowl as he finished.
"Are you joining us today, Mr. Wood?"
Two eyes move towards the doorway and find Severus Snape, black cloak billowing behind him as he moves to allow Sirius Black to move into the room.
"Lighten up Snape, the boy's been hard at work."
"One begs to differ."
Oliver hears Hermione stifle a laugh, turning to meet his eyes with a smirk. Rolling his eyes he stands, tucking the small book in the crook of his elbow as he takes his empty bowl to the sink.
"I want it back, void of mud," Hermione requests, nodding to the book in his possession.
"I'll try my best," he promises, sending her a wink before departing the kitchen behind his former potions professor.
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I've been working on this puppy for a while, but it's still not finished. Basically, Oliver/Hermione throughout Order of the Phoenix. Each chapter will kind of mention an event from the book – I don't write based on the movies. It's a pain – and it follows through a lot of it's major plot points. Really slow-burn, and some chapters barely qualify as a chapter, so along the line there'll be some that have two "chapters" in one due to the length.
I don't have a title yet, but I dunno. I like Untitled for some reason (#aesthetic)
All mistakes are mine.
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