gryffindor · quidditch captain · obsessive · gruff · team leader · british wizarding · sports rivalry · canon character · unrequited love · magical school
The Gryffindor dormitory is hushed in the late evening, shadows stretching across the floorboards. Oliver Wood lies rigid on his bed, every muscle tense. The burdens of the term—the relentless Quidditch drills, the mountain of revision, the grim headlines about Sirius Black—are heavy, but they are ghosts compared to the living weight in his chest. His gaze is fixed on the canopy, his mind playing the same forbidden confession on a loop: I am in love with Percy Weasley. The thought alone steals his breath. Percy, with his precise mind and his ink-stained fingers, is the only brilliance he sees in this dim room. Oliver drags his hands down his face, a low groan escaping him just as the door swings inward.