There were very few times Oliver Wood took glee into doing exactly what people asked him not to do. He held the last rock, and looked at the last remaining 11 girls.
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Hermione noted that for some of the girls Oliver had transformed the rock into personal items, like for Alicia Spinnet, he had transformed it into a quaffle. But then again she wasn't so sure if it was really for Alicia or if it was for him, to finally touch a quaffle again after 3 long hours of this, she thought almost laughingly.
Then for this other girl Geranium, he had given a pretty unorginal geranium. Hermione wasn't sure if the girl looked about ready to cry or throw herself at him. For the model he had given her a mirror.
That had made Hermione laugh really hard. In a way Hermione swore he might have done it for her because he gave her a wink as the girl walked away.
Since Hermione did sort of accidentally ask him if he read Play Wizard. Then she had to explain about finding Ron's secret magazine and seeing the girl in there wearing a mesh top and nothing else, preening herself in the mirror. Hermione noted that all ten girls held their breath waiting for the Oliver Wood to show the last object and showoff his own wizarding prowess. This show really was something else.
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Oliver gave a bit of a quirked grin that made many of the girls swoon, before transforming the rock into a … BOOK. Not just any book though, but HOGWARTS A HISTORY.
Hermione stared at the object, book, whatever in disbelief. Girls around her started to cry while asking who the last girl was, some she was sure were jsut acting it up for the cameras... But everyone figured out pretty quickly who it was for when Oliver stared at Hermione with a way too innocent smile.
Oliver watched gleefully as Hermione Granger stormed down to him. Her eyes flashed fury. But to him it looked way too adorable to scare him at all. Oh yes this was definitely one of those times that Oliver was very happy to do exactly people had begged him not to do.
"You. You, you." Hermione sputtered at a loss for words.
Oliver just kept his angelic smile on, as if he had no idea what she was talking about.
She gave one last glare before snatching the book and walking as dignified as she could to the other side where the saved contestants were.
As soon as the cameras stopped rolling, all the ten girls about to be kicked off all started to cry, feeling the effects of rejection.
"Oh please." Hermione muttered. The last time she'd seen girls cry this hard for something pointless was when Viktor Krum had taken her to the Yule ball. Or maybe it was even when Roger Davies had told the press he was gay and proud to be so. Hermione recalled some girls in the produce market near her start to weep. Why was it always Quiditch players that caused girls to become blubbery messes? Even Ginny, since Harry was a quiditch player once upon a time. Hermione thought.
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It was later that evening when Oliver had been given the east wing of the castle, while the ten girls had been all situated in the west wing.
He wondered if Hermione was still pissed at him. He had tried to talk to her before the stupid staff of the Ultimate Bachelor began to separate him from the contestants.
But she had looked at him, hmphed and walked away reading Hogwarts a History.
That made Oliver smile. She hadn't changed that much in the past years. He remembered in his 7th year that rumor had it that she'd read the book at least four times already. And since she constantly had a copy with her and read it every chance she got, Oliver didn't doubt the rumor.