Authors Note: Hey guys, this is a new story.
Summary: Katie has always had a thing for Oliver, that's why she joined the Quiddich team to begin with. But now it's her seventh year, and her last chance to get the man of her dreams. Will he fall for someone else? Will she?
I know that Oliver and Katie aren't really the same year, but for the purposes of this story, they are. Disclaimer: I own none of these people places or things, except the ones I do. And also, none of this is the same as from the actual books, except the characters of course...but like, there's no Voldemort stuff, and none of that. Okay, so i hope you enjoy! R&R!!
Chapter One
Just Friends
Once upon a time, long ago and far away, in a land of princesses, knights in shining armor, and dragons, there lived a maiden who loved a knight. This fair maidens name was Katie Bell, and the knights name was Oliver Wood. He was perfect and handsome and talented and kind and good, but he saw her only as a friend. He often visited her house, and though she doted on him and offered him trinkets and gifts, he never thought of her as more than a friend. He would always ask her advice on how to make the princesses or other maidens notice him, and though she gave him the best advice she could, Katie often asked herself how she should know how to get the love of your life to notice you.
Katie Bell crumpled up her piece of parchment and shoved it into the crackling Gryfindor fire. Katie was a writer, always had been, but recently she had not been able to put quill to parchment without writing about her and Oliver. Stop, don't go there. There is no you and Oliver, he's only a friend. A friend who is the captain of the Quiddich team, and absolutely perfect, but a friend who is not interested in you, so stop thinking that! Katie told herself firmly.
She slammed her head into a chair cushion and thought of the truth in her story. Oliver was one of her best friends, and she had always liked him, and he never noticed her. He was always asking her for advice on how to get girls to notice him, as if she would be a reliable source of information on this subject.
It wasn't even as if he needed help getting girls to notice him either. All he had to do was run his fingers through that shaggy blonde hair, or stare at them with those deep hazel eyes that you could just drown in, and they would be gone. At least anyone who had half a brain would be.
This year was Katie's last chance with Oliver. They were seventh years, and after this year he would leave and sign with some Quiddich team, and forget all about her. It would be over. She had been mooning over him for years. Ever since the second year when she had come back to Hogwarts and for the first time noticed the tall, handsome, quiet Oliver Wood with the melancholy eyes and the dishy accent. When he had made the Quiddich team Katie had convinced her two best friends, Angelina and Alicia to try out with her.
Alicia was an amazing athlete and had been thinking of trying for a spot anyway, and that compounded with the fact that her boyfriend, George Weasley, was joining the team was enough to convince her.
Angelina too had been a push over. She had liked Fred Weasley longer than Katie had liked Oliver, and was more than eager to try her hand at Quiddich.
Angelina was now dating Fred, and Alicia was still with George, but Katie had yet to get Oliver.
True, joining the team had been a huge step. A leap even. They were good friends and hung out all the time in and out of Quiddich. But he still saw her as no more than a friend.
"What's wrong girl? You don't look too good." Angelina said as Katie sat down at the table where Lee, Fred, George, Alicia and Angelina were all sitting doing homework.
"Thanks Ange, that's really nice and supportive." Katie said sarcastically. Angelina was right though. Katie was not looking her usual self. Her normally bright, happy blue eyes were somewhat bloodshot, and her straight blonde hair looked a little disheveled.
Katie had always had an understated, classic beauty, so unlike the stunning looks of Alicia, or even the attention getting appearance of Angelina. Katie was average height and slender. Angelina was at least 5'10", with dark black hair, dark skin, and and prominent nose. She also had big, round, almost black eyes. When you first looked at her, it was somewhat startling, but when you really looked, she was gorgeous. Alicia also had blonde hair, but hers had more body than Katie's. It was wavy and sometimes out of control. She had brown eyes that had been referred to as "deep pools of chocolate" when George was feeling particularly romantic.
"You know what I mean. Are you quite well? You know Katie, the NEWTs are ages and ages away, you don't need to work so hard yet!" Angelina told her, pulling up a seat for Katie to sit between herself and Lee.
"I know, it's not that." Katie sighed. She was tired, and overworked, and she was stressed about the NEWTs. Their teachers had been giving them so much work lately that Katie didn't even know what to do. That and the pressure of deciding what she wanted to do with the rest of her life was completely overwhelming. She needed a few more years at least before she could decide what she wanted to do with herself after Hogwarts. Fred and George and Lee wanted a joke shop. That was perfect for them. Angelina wanted to be an auror, and Alicia wanted to go into banking. Oliver wanted to, obviously, play Quiddich non stop for the rest of his life. Secretly, Katie wanted to be a journalist for the Daily Prophet, but she knew it would never happen, and was embarrassed to confess her dream to anyone. So she avoided the problem by telling anyone who asked that she hadn't made up her mind yet.
"Well, I'm off for detention with Filtch, the old git. Coming George?" Fred asked, sliding his chair away from the table and kissing Alicia goodbye. Lee coughed loudly into his arm as he did so and Fred scowled at him.
"Is it time already? Well I suppose I must. Farewell all, and if you figure out the answer to the potions question, be sure to fill me in." He winked and kissed Angelina. When they walked away the remaining five slid their chairs around, now that there was more room at the table, it was a much more comfortable fit.
"I just hope they don't get into any more trouble with Filtch." Sighed Angelina looking at the portrait hole after the twin's retreating backs.
"Oh, he's an old bat." Snorted Lee.
"He's had it out for them since forever." Alicia added.
"I wonder why." Katie said, her voice dripping with sarcasm.
"Me too, could it have been that time they dropped the dung bombs all over the main entrance hall?" Lee asked.
"Which time? They've done that so often I've lost count." Alicia said, chuckling.
"Maybe it was when they put the coloring potion in the food, and after breakfast everyone started glowing different colors from the inside and getting sick." Lee suggested.
"Oh, can't be that, they only did that once! Hardly reason to hold a grudge. And they just mixed in the counter potion in with the next meal." Angelina said.
"Yes, but at that point everyone was so hesitant to eat the food, and so suspicious that next time they ate their hair would fall out, that only about half the people actually took the counter potion." Katie reminded them.
"Well, yes, but that's hardly their fault is it?" Alicia asked.
"Oh, I bet it was that time when they stole Mrs. Norris and locked her up in the suit of armor." Lee declared.
"Well, they were really only trying to do a service to the school. That and buy Peeve's some time to rearrange all the drawers in Filtch's filing cabinet." Angelina said.
"I must admit, it would have been a service to the school if it had worked." Katie said, laughing a little at the memory of the twin's antics.
"We got rid of her for three days, that was quite an accomplishment." Alicia said, snorting with laughter.
"Do you remember how she howled when she found she was trapped? And how she would disrupt all the classes as the suit of armor ran through the halls away from Filtch?" Angelina reminded them.
"That was because George jinxed it to." Lee told them.
"You know, Mrs. Norris is still afraid of that suit of armor? I've seen her walk around it, eyeing it suspiciously the whole time." Katie informed them. At this point they were all laughing uproariously, disrupting some of the other occupants of the common room.
There was a companionable silence for a while as they all buckled down to ge some work done. Katie was working on a two foot long essay for professor Snape on the workings of a Wake-Up potion. The potion was supposed to wake you up at a predesigned time. If you took it the night before, then you would wake up feeling perky and wide awake right away. Pretty genius actually, but a boring essay to write. She had just finished that and started working on her transfiguration assignment when the twins came back in.
"The old git made us polish silver!" Fred declared, outraged, again disrupting the peace and quiet of the common room. Katie was startled by the noise. For the past hour or so the only sounds had been the crackling of the fire and the scratching of quills with the occasional whispered conference. As the twins entered and started talking loudly, Katie jumped a little in her seat and ended up making a large scratch across her parchment.
"Well, that must have been relatively easy-" Angela started to say consolingly.
"-Would have been too." Fred said.
"If we could've used magic! The smarmy little git made us use our 'elbow strength.'" George growled, rubbing his upper arm. Angelina, Alicia, Katie, and Lee all started to laugh quietly, and then progressively louder as the twins' identical scowls grew larger. Fred and George puffed and hugged a little as they plopped into armchairs.
"Wasn't particularly amusing to me." Fred pouted.
"Me neither." George confirmed.
"Well, I guess you had to be there." Lee said, trying to look serious but only fueling the girls giggles.
"Well, I'm off to bed, Quiddich practice tomorrow remember?" Katie said, rising and yawning a little.
"Night." Called the others who had been sitting with her as she started up the stairs.
"Does she have it bad or what?" George asked, looking after her.
"For who?" Lee asked skeptically.
"Isn't it obvious?" Fred asked hautily.
"Oh, do tell." Alicia said sarcastically.
"You mean you don't know?" George asked incredulously.
"You don't know anything either so get down off your high horse." Angelina said annoyed.
"Of course I know." George said, affronted.
"We thought everyone knew." Fred said, waving his hand to encompass the entire room and the world at large.
"Well they don't, so either shut up or get on with it." Alicia said impatiently.
"Oliver of course." George said, snorting a little so that his hair flew up out of his eyes, and then immediately fell back down.
"What? That's crazy." Angelina said derisively.
"Is not. It explains why she always wants to get up early for Quiddich, and have extra practice, and why she always goes to bed early hen Oliver isn't hanging about. I'm surprised it's taken you lot this long to figure it out." Fred said, looking smug. The girls looked like they were considering it, but Lee just looked mystified.
"Well, I suppose it would explain a few things." Angelina conceded reluctantly.
"Yes, it would, and she does. She's got it so bad." George said, smiling.
"And?" Alicia prodded.
"And what?" George asked, his smile flickering.
"And what are you going to do about it? Why did you bring it up? What's your point?" She asked, poking him in the arm after every question for emphasis.
"Hey, easy on the arm! I don't know, what do you want me to do? Out of my hands. There is nothing I can do." George said, waving his hands in the air.
"Are you kidding? The reigning champions of mischief at Hogwarts can think of nothing? The world is ending." Angelina said dramatically, placing the back of her hand to her forehead and leaning back, closing her eyes.
"Oh, we'll think of something. Of that you can be sure." Fred challenged.
"I await the day with pleasure." Angelina challenged back.
"I'm done too all, I think I'm going up to bed."
"Night Ange." Fred said as she went up the stairs, she waved her hand over her shoulder.
"Night!" Called the others.
"I think I'll go up too, seeing as I'm sure you boys want to scheme a little." Alicia said, standing as well.
"Night." The boys all chorused.
"So, how are we going to get them together?" Lee asked.
"No idea, but I do know that it's too late to think about it now, so I'm going to go get some shut eye. Katie's right, infatuation with Oliver or no, Quiddich is early tomorrow." Fred said, stretching his arms over his head.
"I know!" Lee exclaimed, yawning a little.
"Exactly, the crack of dawn." Fred said. The boys all walked up the stairs and retired for the evening, leaving a much subdued and quiet common room behind them.
Authors Note: So, what do you think? Any good? Should I continue or no?