Challenge: Fire the Cannon's Character of the Week Drabble Competition, on HPFC
Characters: Rolanda Hooch, OC (Graham Selwyn)
Prompts: Rolanda Hooch, romantic relationship
Word count: 194
A/N: I've just edited this, because it was suggested that it was too drabble-y. I know there's still no plot, but this also answers a question asked in one of the sequels.
Rolanda Hooch never intended to fall in love, but she did.
It was an accident that she did, too. When her beautiful Silver Arrow, the best broom of that period, was shot out of the sky by some muggle weapons during their silly war, she didn't expect that being shipped off to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries would end up being a good thing. But when Graham Selwyn, six years ahead of her in Ravenclaw at Hogwarts, introduced himself as her Healer, she was instantly intrigued. They ended up eating together, going out for drinks and flights when she was released from his care.
She never expected to be married, either, but he proposed, after two years of dating. She was thrilled. The two were very much in love.
When they were married in mid-spring, they wrote their own vows. His started with, "When I first saw you," and was long winded and sweet.
Hers started with, "I never guessed that love at first sight was possible."
Perhaps she had always known that he would die first, but it came as a surprise nonetheless, when she gazed upon his blood-soaked self.