Two years. Who would of thought? "Did she know?" Wood smiled and shook his head. "Unfortunately when you're a few years older than the person you like when she's only 12 and you're 14 things don't seem to go over that well with the younger person." Sydney laughed. "He probably would have had cooties," she explained. Harry laughed. "So, when exactly did you tell her then?"
"It wasn't for a while. I didn't want to scare her off, but it was really hard not to tell her. Every time I saw her I fell more in love." Sydney blushed. Harry was amused at the thought of his cousin being embarrassed. It was really cute. Harry turned and smiled at his cousin. He loved her more than ever.
"So, Wood, what have you been up to, I mean, outside of Hogwarts, what have you found yourself doing?" Harry suddenly felt like he was interviewing his friend and former colleague. Wood laughed. "Well, I've been working with Gringotts some but mainly I've been training with the national Quidditch team. I'll be starting next year with them." "Oh wow, that's so wicked. And you even have something to fall back on then?" Harry asked. Sounding a bit nosey, he really just wanted to know if his cousin would be well taken care of.
"Yes, actually. I have to things. I'm training to be an Auror too." Harry's eyes widened. "Wow, that's great." "Are you asking me all of this because of your cousin?" Oliver asked. Harry looked a little shocked. But he nodded in reluctance. Oliver smiled and put his arm around Sydney. They looked so happy to be with each other. "I really do love her Harry."
"So, what provoked you to actually ask her out?" Harry asked. "Well, actually you'll want to ask Syd about that," Oliver said turning to face her. Mr. Wood had left the four of them to talk. "SO, Sydney, how did this happen?" Harry asked grinning madly. She was a little embarrassed more from the fact that her cousin was asking all these questions than anything else. But she figured she owed him so she fessed up.
"Alright well, you know how I'd been having a rough time and even before anything happened with Sirius and mom and dad, I'd been having those terrible dreams, waking everyone in my dormitory up along with myself. Well I started writing more and more to Oliver about it. He always told me that if I needed someone to talk to that he was here for me, so I figured why not. Well, one day, the first time I told you I was going to help out with Fang at Hagrid's, we met up out on the Quidditch Pitch. We just talked face to face it was nice. We started hanging out more often and eventually, one night, Oliver leaned in for the kill." They all laughed. "Great way of putting it," Wood said amused with the story.