WOOD, oliver colin

[OLIVER COLIN WOOD]

Look here, what Do you see? Are You Looking Forward to Get Tangle Up in Me? FULL NAME Oliver Colin Wood AGE & BIRTHDAY Forty-Nine; December 30, 1975 OCCUPATION Gryffindor Alumni/ Retired Puddlemere United Keeper BLOOD STATUS Pureblood FACE CLAIM J. R. Bourne WAND TYPE 8 1/4", Fairy Hair, Birch PATRONUS N/A PETS Dewdrop, a brown barn owl. ABILITIES/ SPECIES None Tell me who you are, I'm sure you're some kind of superstar. Free Style Oliver Colin Wood was born in the late winter to Richard and Elizabeth Wood. His original due date was nearly three weeks before the day he was born which his mother always joked about him having to have pay back for that one. Oliver was an only child and completed doted on by his stay at home mother. Elizabeth was a very supporting parent who couldn’t have been prouder of their son for pretty much everything he did. He was a happy child and a rambunctious one at that. His mother still tells the stories of how he would get into things he was not supposed to be getting into. Richard was also a proud parent. He worked at the Ministry for most of his career changing positions as he got bored of the old one. He liked to move around and was very interested to learn of the many things that the Ministry had to offer him. The happiest moment in Oliver’s childhood that he’s got proper memory of was the day he got his first broomstick. He took to it like a fish took to water, or a bird took to air. Oliver and the broomstick were a perfect match. He loved it. Even though the toy broom only rose a few feet off the ground, he would fly that all around his parents’ home and yard. Many things had been broken from the tail of the broom. Elizabeth and Richard were the proudest they could be over their son’s newfound ability. There were times that they’d gotten mad for him breaking things but always had a chuckle when he’d tell them that he’d replace them when he was a famous quidditch player. And from the small age of five that was his goal, one that the ambitious little lad was going to stick to until he became a professional. Oliver grew up quite the ambitious little tyke. He enjoyed playing with those other children that his mother and father would set him up with, typically children of their friends. As he got older, his mother started giving him his homeschooling lessons but he would have much rather had been out flying on his broom. He got quite stir crazy inside his home. He’d never really paid much attention to the lessons his mother provided for him. He just wasn’t interested in them. Besides you didn’t need school lessons to fly a broom. So all in all Oliver had a pretty normal childhood for any wizarding child. The summer after he turned eleven was the one where he got his Hogwarts letter. And he was incredibly happy about it. His mother took his shopping for the things that he would need for school but at the time of him starting at Hogwarts first years were not allowed brooms and couldn’t join the Quidditch team. He was quite unhappy about it even though he’d known it. He’d gotten an owl that he had named Quill. The owl that he’d have until shortly before his first child was born. Off Oliver went to school and once he was at Hogwarts he’d been sorted into Gryffindor house. For his first year he worked on his studies but was often drawing pictures of what he would have been doing. He went to every Quidditch game and of course supported Gryffindor through all of it. He’d share a dormitory with Percy Weasley through his years at school. It was Oliver’s second year that he got to actually fly. His parents bought him a decent broom and he tried out of the Gryffindor’s house keeper. This was a great year even if the Gryffindor team did not win the Quidditch cup this year. He did take a bludger to the head two minutes into his first game though. All he remembers was waking up a week later in the school’s hospital wing. Oliver continued to try to work towards to winning the Quidditch cup for his entire school career. The last time they had won the cup had been two years before he even arrived to school. So his goal was to be the captain and eventually win the cup for Gryffindor. It was his fourth year that Oliver had become the captain of the Gryffindor team taking over for Charlie Weasley while Charlie was in his seventh year. This year he had believed that he put up a good team but again was unable to obtain the cup. Oliver stayed the captain of the Quidditch team until he would graduate after his seventh year, he’d put his Qudditch first over school but would keep his grades up enough to not get into trouble for having them low. During his firth year, Harry Potter had come to Hogwarts and would become the youngest player in over a hundred years to join a house team. At first Oliver had been a little weary of the idea when McGonagall had brought the first year to him but he’d had a hard time finding a skilled enough seeker to replace Charlie Weasley. McGonagall had reassured him that the way Harry Potter had caught the Remembrall was not even a move that Charlie could have been able to pull off. He agreed that Harry would make a good seeker and would give him a try. But one of the big things he had told McGonagall was that Harry would need a decent broom to be able to play. Oliver had given Harry his first Quidditch lesson in private and had clearly seen that Harry was a natural when it came to being on a broomstick. But his goal was to keep Harry secret until the first match against Slytherin that year. Rumors though fly through Hogwarts and the presence was around the school faster than anything. But they wouldn’t know how good he was until he was on the field. Their first game that season was a great win against Slytherin, despite some mishaps with interference with Harry’s broom. They played well that year. And Harry had tried to quit the house team when he and his friends had lost one hundred and fifty house points due to their actions. Oliver had refused him, they wouldn’t even have a chance at winning the house cup if they couldn’t win the match against Ravenclaw. Oliver being irked was a clear thing as was from the rest of the team. The Ravenclaw match had been the Gryffindor’s house team in three hundred years after Harry Potter was in the hospital wing recovering Oliver had a new plan for his sixth year over the previous summer. Coming closer to the end of his school career he was completely determined to win the Quidditch cup. This school year he’d decided to enact early morning practice sessions and had attempted their first practice the first Saturday back to school but Slytherin had gotten permission to use it instead to train their new seeker, Draco Malfoy. Oliver had not been happy about this. Oliver didn’t get happy about things that interrupted their training. This year the opening of the Chamber of Secrets and attacks on muggleborn students led to the cancellation of the remaining Quidditch matches after Gryffindor had won the match against Slytherin. Alicia Spinnet had also told Oliver during that match to forfeit the match when a rogue bludger chased Harry Potter in a strange way. Maybe it was a good thing that the matches were cancelled. Oliver actually got proper lessons done during his sixth year. Something that he had been in need of. After McGonagall had announced that the school would not be closing after the attacks. Oliver had been quite excited and had instead of shouting about Dumbledore being back or that they had caught the person who was making the attacks, he shouted about how they would be able to play Quidditch once more. And play they did. Seventh year, his final year, they had to win the Quidditch cup this year, he would never have a chance again. He trained the team hard for their first match against Slytherin until the news came out that Slytherin postponed their match because of an injury to Draco Malfoy. Instead during the bad weather they played Hufflepuff. The terrible storm that would destroy Harry Potter’s broom in the Whomping Willow was incredibly bad. Already playing in the bad weather the field had become a draw for the dementors that were guarding the school and overcame Harry where he fell. Cedric Diggory had won that match for Hufflepuff. And Oliver had to reassure Harry that he hadn’t blamed him for not catching the Snitch. But he told him that he need a new broom. He also worried about the dementors appearing on the field again in future games. Oliver had been accused of insensitivity after Harry Potter had received a Firebolt that was feared to have been from Sirius Black so was taken to be checked over for signs of tampering. Oliver had begged McGonagall that it would increase their chances of winning the cup and McGonagall had told him that he’d need to have different priorities and to not put Harry’s safety under their victory. Oliver continued to put the training up for their second match against Ravenclaw. Gryffindor won that game and only Slytherin was left for them. He had to tell Harry to not catch the snitch unless they were ahead by at least sixty points because they need to win by two hundred and ten points. He’d even gone far enough to put a security detail on Harry everywhere he went so that no one could cause Harry harm. That match with Slytherin Oliver took two bludgers to the stomach but Harry had managed to catch the snitch when they were ahead by sixty points despite that Oliver was in quite the pain. But they won the cup and there was no expression that Oliver could have properly said to say how excited he was. They held the cup up and that made a great complete to his final year. He did decently well on his N.E.W.T.s exam, enough to know that he learned the things he knew. His higher marks were those that involved wandwork and he hadn’t taken Potions in his N.E.W.T. years. But he’d done well at the one thing that he wanted to. After he left Hogwarts, Oliver became a reserve keeper for Puddlemere United. He went to the Quidditch world cup when the first attacks by death eaters were done on the camp after the match. And he really began to make a good career for himself. After a few years as a reserve for Puddlemere United he became their keeper and played until he retired at the age of thirty-two. At the age of twenty-three he joined his old classmates and teammates in the Battle of Hogwarts against Voldemort and his Death Eaters. During the lull in their battle he helped Neville Longbottom carry the deceased to the Great Hall. It was after they had won the Battle of Hogwarts that he and Alicia Spinnet began to date. She’d been a couple years behind him in school and now was just a good time to be dating. He was making a good career for himself and was getting to the age that most wizards and witches began to get married and have children. They dated for five years before getting married. Almost upon getting married they found themselves pregnant with the first of four children. Lillian Sansa Wood, Oliver had been so very excited to have a daughter. She was perfect through and through. Oliver couldn’t have been a prouder father. Lillian was born when he was twenty-eight. He’d promised Alicia that he was going to have their children, when they had more than just Lillian, that he would get them all up in the air. It was his oldest that was the one who didn’t like to flying as much as he would have liked. Nevertheless he was still proud of her. Ranger came into their lives a year and a half later. A boy and a girl, Oliver couldn’t have been happier. As an only child he’d always wanted siblings. Now was the time for him to give his children the opportunity for that. Between the time Ranger was born and his next girl Cordelia was born was when Oliver retired from his career. He still helped out in training people when he needed to. It never hurt to get money that way but most of his time was spent helping care for his children. Cordelia was born a couple months after he retired. And then another year and a half later Lucas was born. Most of his children took to a broom like it was second nature. Lillian was his one who did not but it wasn’t as if flying ran through the family. He was really one of the first people in his family to play Quidditch and Alicia was a muggleborn but he knew one thing, she would do well in her life. Oliver was a proud and confident person that each of his children would lead the life that was meant for them, even if they didn’t play Quidditch. Ranger was his first child to show his potential. Oliver remembers giving him the toy broom to learn on. Oliver never lost his interest in the game as he got older. He still had his trophies around the house, Alicia’s as well. They had posters of different players. Oliver loved Quidditch so very much. Cordelia showed her potential as well when she was younger. She was definitely daddy’s little girl. He was proud of her playing Quidditch and when she pushed herself he pushed her as well. He pushed all his children to work hard for what they wanted because they were not going to get it from the couch. Lucas was the baby of the family. Lucas also loved Quidditch. Always great at flying, Lucas was one of his children that he saw taking off a career in Quidditch. Lillian was off to Hogwarts first. She did great at her studies and over the years he became quite proud of her. Once she graduated she went to work at St. Mungo’s as a spell damage healer. Oliver to say the least couldn’t have been prouder. She had the smarts to do it and he was very happy to see her doing what she wanted with her life. Ranger went off to Hogwarts two years after Lillian. And he took after Oliver when it came to studies. Ranger was smart and did well in classes but loved his Quidditch. When Ranger got onto the Hogwarts house team in his third year, Oliver bought him the top of the line broom. A tradition that he’d kept for all his children. Ranger was a keeper and that was one of the things that had made Oliver even prouder. It was something that he just couldn’t help. Ranger was a Gryffindor and Lillian a Ravenclaw. Little did he know then that would be the same path his younger two would follow when they reached school as well. Cordelia went to Hogwarts and like her sister sorted off into Ravenclaw. She was smart at strategies for Quidditch and he knew that she would come to join the Quidditch team for Ravenclaw once he saw her potential. She was a beater. She did great at it. He’d gotten her a broom as well the day that she got on the team. He also bought her a decent beater bat so she would have one that she was comfortable with. When his children were home from school he would help them practice, keeping them on the top of their toes. That was his goal. Lucas had gone off to Hogwarts last. His youngest son had been so very excited to go off to Hogwarts. And he’d heard that Lucas was a talker away. And he’d also joined the Gryffindor house team. But what had happened in the previous year to now had been one that even Oliver had a hard time taking. Lucas fell from his broom and almost hadn’t survived the hit. From there Lucas wasn’t able to get on a broom again from there. Oliver wasn’t going to push him but still hopes that the boy will get back on a broom. This hit had come from the year after Ranger had managed to splinch his leg during his exam for apparition. Ranger had gotten right back up on the broom after he healed up. They’d invested in a prosthetic so he could still walk. It was magically charged and functioned just like a normal leg. He would have no problems with living everyday life. And also most recently Cordelia took a fall as well. She’d managed to hit her head and they sent her off to make sure that all would be okay at St. Mungo’s. Oliver spends most of his life, especially just as his forty-ninth birthday is passing by, with Alicia and spending time supporting his children. Gone are the days when he really helped people with training, now he focuses more so on his children and their careers. His home is always open to friends and family alike. Oliver Wood the Keeper who once was so determined to make his career a good one, now sat at home reading the paper and keeping track of children. Oliver’s life is spent much more quiet and tucked into their home. Still when requests come up he helps out with professional and children Qudditch needs. Sometimes he’ll go out and be a referee. He still keeps his name active throughout the Quidditch world. And he’s proud of what he accomplished, proud of his life, and especially proud of his children. Let's us all just be friend, And together we can start a new trend. ALIAS: Jess AGE: The last time I did an app I wrote 23 now I can write 24 it feels weird. DISCOVERY: I have lived here, furever. CHARACTERS: ALISE ANASTASIA REESE ABDEEN, @asher, BRIAN MARCUS FLINT, CHARLIE GABRIEL VALDEZ, @colton, CRESSIDA THEA PANOS, DAMIEN REED KELITH, DYLAN CERI SAER, @ethan, FINLAY BEAN BUCHANAN, JAY TATE BLETCHLEY, JAYDEN KYAN SCIARRA, JERRICK LUKA TCHAIKOVSKY, JODI CAMERON CLARKE, LORCAN ELIJAH SCAMANDER, MATTHEW ERI BLENKINSOP, @miles, @neville, NOEL GERON PRIDEUX, RAPHAEL ANDRÉ XANTHOPOULOS, @reynord, ROWYN DEVIN MEAGHER, @sawyer, THEODORE ISAAC NOTT, TRISTAN GRAYSON OLLISTON, VIKTOR NIKOLA ROUSSEAU, WALLACE TRISTAN SINCLAIR NOTES: ^.^ Sorry it’s so long. made by paige

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