THC

House: Ravenclaw

Class: Head of House

Category: Drabble

Prompt(s) chosen: [Action] ripping up your/someone's homework

Word count: 659

Notes: This may be slightly off canon since I know they had ways to fix mistakes I just don't remember how

An Easy Fix

Percy doesn't know what time it is, but he knows he should have gone to sleep a long time ago. He can hear Oliver snoring on the other side of the room. It used to feel a little lonely with only the two of them sharing when other years had several people to a dorm, but now he enjoys the pseudo privacy. He also knows that Oliver is a heavy sleeper and doesn't mind when Percy stays up late.

It's not like Percy means to stay up as late as he does. He just can't sleep when there's a pile of work on his desk. Most of it isn't due anytime soon, seeing as they're longer assignments, but Percy was never one to wait until the last minute. Well, usually that would be the case. This one assignment had slipped his mind due to everything going on. Most of the professors had been a little lenient since several students had been petrified, but of course, Snape was not one of them. If it had been any other assignment, Percy would have just explained to the professor his mistake and taken the loss of points. He'd rather do that than turn in something extremely rushed.

It wasn't even that long of an assignment, but Percy needed it to be perfect. He was almost done, but his eyes were starting to blur. The lack of sleep was definitely getting to him now, but he wouldn't have the energy to wake up early and finish it. That never turned out well for anyone, even morning people, which Percy wasn't. Unfortunately, his brain worked better at night, maybe because it was when everything was fully quiet. No one really made that much noise in the castle this late, but even at home, his busy house was only silent once dusk hit.

Shredded up pieces of parchment littered the floor around Percy. He would have been done hours ago if he hadn't continued to make mistakes. Sure, he could have fixed them and handed in a scratched up piece of parchment, but Percy would never do that.

His hand moved before his brain could catch up, and a line of ink stretched over the parchment. He screamed in frustration before tearing the parchment in front of him. It added to the mess on the floor, and he reached for some more parchment to start over. At this rate he wouldn't finish before class in a couple of hours.

"Perce, what are you doing?" Oliver asked groggily as he walked over to where Percy was sitting.

"Homework," he said before going back to writing down his answers. "Have to finish it."

Oliver bent down to pick up some of the ripped parchment, "Looks like you did finish a while ago."

"No, those are all bad," Percy shook his head and tried to wave Oliver away, "Go back to sleep."

Oliver walked back over to his side of the room but returned with his wand. He muttered a spell, and all the parchment at Percy's feet mended itself back together. Oliver began to sort through it until he found a fixable one and said another spell. The line across the parchment that Percy just destroyed had disappeared and left his almost completed homework.

"I'll stay up with you until you finish it," Oliver said as he sat down on Percy's bed beside the desk.

In his exhaustion, Percy had forgotten simple spells that he learned as a first-year that would have easily gotten rid of the mistakes.

"Thanks, Ollie."

It didn't take much longer for Percy to finish the last few sentences and safely put the homework away. He changed into his pajamas and crawled into his bed where Oliver had already fallen asleep. He didn't feel the need to wake Oliver up and send him to his own bed, so Percy just accepted it. After all, he'd still be up if it wasn't for Oliver.