Biromantic, asexual Percy Weasely who has a crush on grey-aro, ace Oliver Wood. -R
Birom ace Percy and gray-aro ace Oliver who are great friends despite their many differences.
They have so many more things in common. They both strive for excellence. They both excel at what they love. They both have difficulty communicating with the people they care about. All of these helped them bond early on when they became housemates and roommates at the age of eleven.
Little Percy helped Oliver master his charms, and little Oliver helped Percy not fail his flying lessons. Charlie ruffled Percy’s hair and commented on how he was so happy his little bro had finally found a friend. Percy blushed and stared at the floor.
Percy always kept Oliver awake in Professor Binns’ first period history class after grueling quidditch practices the night before. On weekends Oliver always dragged Percy out of the library to the Great Hall for dinner aka his first meal of the day. (”I will send an owl to your mother, Weasley. So help me–”)
Oliver sat up with Percy every night he couldn’t sleep thinking about the Chamber of Secrets, first due to how his heightened security duties unnerved him even as the increased responsibility pleased him, then due to Penelope Clearwater’s petrification, and afterward because of his sister’s abduction into the chamber itself. Percy cried, and Oliver held him, and two boys who were usually so awkward about physical contact never felt more right or more heartbroken together.
In their final year, even as their lives continued to take diverging courses with futures in professional quidditch and at the Ministry of Magic, Percy couldn’t stop thinking about the boy whose presence had made his seven years at Hogwarts truly happy ones. Percy never missed a Gryffindor quidditch match that year. (He even turned up to watch tryouts and some practices.) He always waited for Oliver outside the locker rooms and–as the very last people leaving the quidditch pitch–they walked back to the castle discussing strategy and what went right or wrong that day.
When Gryffindor won the quidditch cup that year, the euphoria was infectious! The common room party felt just as exciting as the game, especially when they had commentator Lee Jordan recapping every play. Percy partied with Oliver late into the night until curfew when Percy had to shut everything down. The only way Percy could get Oliver to agree to go to bed was by carrying him piggyback up the stairs chanting “Gryffindor wins! Gryffindor wins!”
Percy dumped Oliver on his bed and then collapsed beside him, exhausted. (It’s not every night that scrawny Head Boys carry beefy quidditch captains to their beds.) Percy got up to push Oliver into a “normal” sleeping position, threw the quilt over him and turned to leave, but couldn’t. Oliver kept a firm grip on his sleeve. Percy asked what he wanted. Oliver moved over to the other side of his four-poster while never letting go of his roommate. Percy hesitated, but eventually slipped into the bed. Oliver and Percy cuddled and dozed until Percy had to leave for his late-night rounds patrolling the castle for any sign of escaped convict Sirius Black.
They didn’t talk much about it, but Percy and Oliver happily shared a bed for the rest of that year. They shared a compartment on the train ride home, and they slowly, achingly, tore themselves away from one another on Platform 9 ¾ to reunite with their proud families and to go forward in search of their respective dreams.