Summary: All Percy does is study and Oliver is just as badly obsessed with Quiddich as Percy is with school. Some people don't think that's a good thing and decide to do something about it.
Disclaimer: Still not mine. Only the so called plot is all my work.
Warnings: Terrible, terrible, terrible slashy things coming ahead (although the first three parts are totally gay-free)! Typos and some random and scary misspelling! Some language.
Timeline and stuff: Takes place behind the scenes of 'The Prisoner Of Azkaban' book if I didn't count it all wrong (it is Percys and Olivers last year at Hogwards, right?). And let's all imagine that Percy and Penelope only dated for a while and then broke up.
A/N: Oh-my-god. stares at the screen with a very, VERY puzzled expression I've got seven reviews? This isn't real... And not a single flame? I'm just so happy I think I'm going to jump up and down and grin all day. Well, or maybe I could write some more? That's a bit better idea, eh?
I'm very sorry about my spelling and grammar, I'm a bit of a perfectionist, so I bet it hurts me more than you. I'll check the 1. chapter when I get the time (or some of my friends get... hehe, friend-slave-labour!)
But before the story, I want to answer you lovelies who reviewed:
slyfiresnake – Damn it, I noticed that too when I read the text again... damn. I hope I'll do a bit better job from now on. At least I'll try!
themightyducks – Oh, YOU! I love your stories and I WILL keep on reading them. Just update soon! And thanks for that wonderful review. It made me feel very happy! I was afraid that people wouldn't understand a word of this or something... I do understand people who don't like slash, after all, I've never understood the people who pair Ron and Harry but still think some of the stories are rather good. But anyway, thanks for the review, I'll come and read your's texts soon!
Renn – Thanks! Well, I'll try to keep on writing and not make you guys wait for ages!
takky – I, too, think I mean "which". I've had great difficulties with the words "which" and "with" so don't get all puzzled if I write something very odd when it comes to those two words-from-hell. Thanks anyway. I like to hear that you liked this.
Queenblood - Oh, yes, thanks for that info! I had totally forgotten Percy being a Head Boy... I'll add something about that when I get the time to correct the first chapter! And thank you very much for liking my story!
Krazy-Katy – Uuups! Damn! I totally mixed Alicia and Angelina! But thanks for making me notice that! I really, really have to correct that one! Thanks!
Angelica – Well, now I am updating, I hope it didn't take too long! Thanks for the review!
Well, on with the story now!
Part III: Business Of Love Gone Wrong
In the following weeks The Love Squad didn't make much progress in their great mission. Ginny and Angelina did their 'spying' but didn't get anything very important out of their victims. It seemed that Percy, indeed, preferred brunettes, as he told Ginny so when she asked him about that. All Angelina found out was that Oliver, just as they had thought, liked only those who understood his undying love for Quiddich.
Fred and George helped Hermione to make a list of people they should try to pair the boys with. Hermione had so far gotten only girls on her list even tough the twins had suggested many boys, too. For example, they were sure that Percy and Draco Malfoy would make a very scary but also very working couple ('I mean, Draco has ambitions, like Percy, together they might end up as the next two Dark Lords and take over the whole world or something!', Fred exclaimed).
Oliver and Percy kept on their obsession filled lives and seemed quite happy as they were - on their own and doing what they loved. When Hermione once pointed this out when the Squad was sitting together in the library having an 'informal meeting', Ginny told her and the others about Percy and his habit of reading sweet romance novels. And then George and Angelina told them about Wood and his poems about love (he had once asked Angelina to tell what she thought about some of them). These new pieces of information convinced Hermione and also the rest of the Love Squad got a hell of a lot more motivation - these boys needed their help, even if they hadn't noticed it yet!
So, with this strengthened amount of motivation the Squad started working and before Christmas they had organized blind-dates for Percy with one Gryffindor fifth year girl and two Ravenclaw-girls, the other one called Cho Chang who also got to another blind-date-by-the-Love-Squad, with Wood. Woody seemed to be quite difficult to get to go on the dates so the Squad only got him on two dates after the one with Cho.
Any of the arranged dates didn't turn out to become a total catastrophe but there certainly wasn't any successes, meaning falling in love-happenings, either. When the Christmas holidays drew nearer the Squad had gotten a feeling that something just wasn't right, that they hadn't noticed something, because they really had done just about everything to find the boys the love they obviously needed, and still they hadn't gotten anything done. Thus they decided to leave the poor boys alone for the vacations and, after some well-earned rest, try again.
Of the Squad only Hermione was planning to stay in the Hogwards Castle through the holidays and so she got the important task of observing as both Percy and Oliver were also going to stay as school. After all, they both had their NEWTS coming and they had to start reading and at Christmas the library was bound to be empty of noisy hangarounds. Of course Percy had started reading for the NEWTS right after they had finished their OWLS but that didn't stop him from worrying about it and studying like mad (meaning even more than he usually did, if that's possible).
(A/N: I don't remember if Sirius had 'visited' Hogwards (in the Prisoner of Azkaban-book) before or after the Christmas Holidays, and I'm too lazy to get up and travel upstairs to my room to check it from the book, so let's think he did it before Christmas, okay?)
Part IV: A Curious Event And Hermiones Shoking Discovery
It was finally time for Hogwards School of Witchcraft And Wizardry to settle down and become almost empty for the Christmas holidays. Under the fear for a dangerous murder on the run, most of the students had decided to travel home for the vacation as the said killer had been sighted a few times near Hogwards and once even inside the school.
Only one Hufflepuff student, a few girls from Ravenclaw, two Slytherins and Hermione, Ron, Harry, Oliver and Percy from Gryffindor house had decided to spend the Christmas under such danger. So the said group of students said their good byes to their class mates when the first day of holidays started.
e next day Hermione, Percy, Oliver and the only Huffelpuff, Cedric Diggory, were sitting at the deserted library. More precisely, only Hermione and Cedric were sitting, both writing equally long essays, as Percy searched through the Potions section trying to find the right ingredient for the Polyjuice Potion and Oliver was strolling between the shelves looking for something interesting. And something interesting he did find.
When he got to the Miscue Books section and randomly picked up a rather new book that had a colorful title on its yellow cover that said Magic For Every Party. A quick glance to the presentation told him that the book had all kinds of funny spells, charms and potions starting with the Moodbreakers Breaker cheering-spell and The Let's Dance Spell that made everyone dance better than they normally could and ending to the Secret Crush Revealer charm that sounded quite odd for Oliver because he had never heard of such charm. It did seem to be a quite useful one, it was pretty funny that nobody hadn't used it at any of the parties he had been in. He leaned on to the huge book-shelve behind him and started reading the book from the middle. When he got through the Kiss Calculator Charm, Multicolored Guests Potion, Happy Singers Spell and Hugger's Drink Potion he finally got to the Secret Crush Revealer charm. He started reading a bit more interested:
"104. The Secret Crush Revealer
The Secret Crush Revealer is great fun for parties that include lots of single people. It was developed of the Summoning Charm ("Accio") that is used for getting objects to fly towards you. As the original Summoning Charm was meant only for non-living things, the The Secret Crush Revealer must be used carefully. It is a rather new version and only works if the persons perfect match is less than 100 meters away. It is important to understand that the charm only reveals ones current perfect match, not the "secret crush" as it's name says. It isn't a good way to find ones lifelong companion as it only measures the present needs, hopes, wishes and such. It is anyway a fun charm for just about any parties with singles (with married people the charm might end up causing divorces) as the results usually are quite good - at least for the time.
The charm does not require a wand if you have done wandless magic before. It is percormed by thinking the last time one felt lonely and saying the spell "revelus accio secretus companius perfectus". All words must be pronounced correctly.
The Secret Crush Revealer was first developed in Sweden by Longwick Hordleton who worked for The Ministery of --- "
Skipping the theory part Oliver thought that he definetly should learn this one, you never knew when such spell would be useful. Remembering that the library was almost deserted, he decided to test it. It wouldn't work, of course, because all the girls he could think as a possible 'perfect match' had left the school for Christmas. So he murmured the spell and thought about last night when he had been feeling lonely and writing a long poem. Almost at once he felt an exiting cheerful and warm feeling going through him from head to toe. And a slight cool breeze swept through the library.
Hermione and Cedric lifted their heads from their massive essays and turned to look at the door to see if the breeze had came from outside. But the door was closed firmly. Even Percy stopped his endless search between the shelves and looked at the windows. But they were shut. What was going on?
The breath seemed to circle around Percy and suddenly it snatched him up floating in the air. Percy yelped surprised when the wind blew him gently but fast through the corridors between the bookshelves and then dropped him right on top of someone.
"Ouch! What the hell...?", Percy said stumbling back up.
"I was just going to ask the same from you!", growled Wood.
"I didn't do anything! Somebody did magic or something!", Percy said and looked at Wood accusingly.
"Well, I did, but it couldn't be my charm...", Oliver said, "it couldn't have even worked at all."
"What do you mean? Why would you conjure a charm that doesn't work?", Percy asked looking all puzzled.
"It does work, just that it shouldn't have done anything here...", Wood tried to explain "I just tried it so I could use it when it could work... it was on that book", he pointed at the Magic For Every Party-book laying open on the floor.
"What kind of charm is it, anyway?", Percy asked and picked up the book. "A Secret Crush Revealer?"
"Well, yeah... I thought it would be a fun charm at parties or something...", explained Wood a bit embarrassed but smiling.
Percy read the text quickly and then announced his opinion "It's rubbish. I bet it does a few sparks and throws the closest person around on you. I guess that's what it did now. I suggest that you wouldn't use it anymore in the library. I need to read and study and so do you. We have our exams coming, Wood."
"Yeah, well, you're probably right about this being rubbish, but I guess it'll be great fun for the next Gryffindor House Cap victory fest, anyway", Woody said making Percy sneer.
"Well, I won't be coming to that party. I prefer to keep my feet firmly on the ground, even around you, unlike your huge fan clubs", the said Prefect and Head Boy told the Quiddich Captain, gave the Magic For Every Party back to him and started walking back towards the Potions section.
"Sure, what ever", Oliver said, not offended at all being used to Percys nasty way of speaking. He putted the book to the shelve and walked away to find something that might in fact be useful for the NEWTS exams. Probably he should learn the Summoning Charm better if even its developed forms worked that badly for him. Well, he hadn't thought it would work at all... but it certainly hadn't brought his perfect match to him either. Or had it? The text had said that the result usually was quite unexpected. But this was a bit too weird result...
Hermione had observed this whole situation behind one shelve. The moment she had heard Percys yelp she had walked behind the nearest shelve to Oliver and Percy and had seen and heard everything. Now when the both boys had gone she went to the said shelve and took the Magic For Every Party from it. She scanned through the contents for The Secret Crush Revealer Charm and read the text.
"Oh, my... so, this is why we have been failing... who would have known", she said quietly aloud after she had read the whole text (also the boring theory part) and walked to the librarians desk to borrow the book. The others would certainly like to have a look at it after they'd return.
A/N: Okay, this Part IV end was just booooring, but I'm sorry and I promise that in the next chapter (which will probably be just part V as it's going to be a bit longer then the previous ones) we'll get some action. But hey, they already talked! And Oliver smiled at Percy! (Hurray to that... he seems to smile a lot anyway.)
And I hope I got most of my grammar and spelling errors away now. I still don't have a beta reader, although I know exactly WHO I'm going to force to do that job for me, but I used an online spell checker called I hope it helped at least a bit.
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