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[mroliverwood]

Date: November 25th
Time: 'Round Noon
Place: Spinner's End
Characters Involved: Oliver Wood, Wini Wood, Perry Derrick, and any of the other residents
Rating: PG-13 at least, probably.

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[sightlesswolf]

June had never had a pet, growing up. She'd had no idea how rapidly an innocuous little Puffskein could go through food! At the shop the other day she'd gotten what ought to have been plenty to start Winifred off, but in the past two days the little ball of fluff had gone through nearly half of what she'd bought. Maybe it was still growing

[subtle_simmer]

AS might be expected, it took a great deal of effort for Severus to hold his tongue after Wood's tirade. He would have been delighted to enumerate all the examples of Wood's prejudice and bigotry to rub his proverbial nose in his own shite, to prove its stench.

However, these past months of hard-learning, changing long-held habits of solitude to accommodate not one but six other cohabitants, and even briefly more than six, had gradually taught Severus that, indeed, there were times when something was sodding well none of his business. EVEN when that business was occurring under his own roof.

One can only imagine how difficult that lesson must be for someone like Snape, but there you are

[sightlesswolf]

A pay-off? June remembered Oliver saying he had something for Perry, the reason he was coming over that day, but... oh. He'd offered a reward for finding Wini, hadn't he? A large reward. She barely remembered it being mentioned, but as it hadn't yielded any results, she'd forgotten. Certainly she didn't think Perry had expected anything of the sort. As she'd noted before, Perry hadn't been participating in the search out of any concern for Oliver or for Winifred, but he hadn't been in it for money either, and considering his pride she thought she could see what had begun the squabble.

She was just trying to decide whether, having just walked in, she had any business getting involved in this, when Severus's pronoucement distracted her.

"What? But - no!" Obviously yes, he was just leaving, considering he'd practically plowed her over on his way out the door, but she couldn't help reacting with dismay. "Not yet, just a minute; let me just grab Wini's present from my room!" Not as though she couldn't perfectly well bring the

[mroliverwood]

Oliver felt terrible for barreling into June like that. "Sorry," he said quickly, "We're fine, right Win? Yeah, we're alright. Are you okay?" He knelt down to pick up her package and offered it to her as Snape handed Wini back the picture. The girl, while unharmed, was a bit overwhelmed but the quick succession of all these events of being picked up, carried off, bumped into and then dipped upside down while her dad picked up the package, and she pressed her head against her father's chest, not taking the picture and giving a very quiet whine

[sightlesswolf]

"Brilliant, come on," June replied quickly, hoping to head off any more bickering. She wasn't hesitant to have Oliver see her room; there wasn't anything lying about for her to be embarrassed over, after all, since she was careful not to leave anything lying out at all