Aster - Hermione Granger/Oliver Wood
for @owl-librarian 349 words Rated T Aster - Being charmed by someone unanticipated
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“Do you come here often?” A voice sounded from behind her.
Hermione spun, realizing belatedly that it likely wasn’t a great idea given her propensity for falling in heels, and proceeding to stumble directly into the speaker’s arms.
Luckily for her, they were strong arms and she didn’t have to worry very much about the fall.
“Oh!” she exclaimed, laughing nervously as she gripped Oliver Wood for balence.
“Sorry! I didn’t mean to startle you, Granger,” he said, smiling widely. “Just trying to be charming. Did it work?”
“Clearly. You swept me off my feet,” she countered.
He laughed. “I did, didn’t I? Didn’t realize I was good at that.” He made sure she was steady on her feet and then reached up to straighten his tie in a very debonair way.
“To answer your question. I see you at every one of these Ministry dos, so what do you think?” she asked.
“We should just start coming together to these things, you know?”
“Together?” she asked.
“Right. We always end up that way. Talking.”
“If you can call small talk over the spider puffs ‘talking’,” she replied.
“Talk is part of small talk, Granger. You’d think somone as clever as you would realize that.” He grinned and she laughed.
“Fair enough.”
“So what do you say?”
“About what?”
“Be my witch for the evening? You can field away all the questions about my divorce with that lovely smile of yours and I can make Ron even more jealous than he already is.”
Hermione looked over her shoulder to see the wizard in question across the room, Lavender on his arm and glaring daggers in her direction. “Merlin’s beard, Ronald,” she chuckled to herself. It would serve him right. “Alright.”
OIiver offered his arm and Hermione took it. “I promise I’m no slouch. Even though I never have a date to these things,” he assured her, tucking her hand into his as it wound around the crook of her elbow and she was surprised by the heat that rose in her cheeks at the gesture.
“I could believe that.”
