There was only so much god awful rubbish an Obliviator had to deal with in a week. This one seemed to want to take hellish to a new and abominable level, however, as not for the first time after a werewolf raid Hugo Weasley found himself repairing the memories of those in a little village in Wales, editing them to the point where there was barely anything left of the night, replacing them all instead with a mundane repetition of nights that were completely normal to the individuals. He hated that in as many ways as he enjoyed it. It seemed ridiculous that there were still werewolves around that were so out of control that he needed to do it. Still, obliviating Muggles kept him in house and home.
He wasn’t going to complain too much.
In an effort to get the scene out of his mind and go and get up to something a little bit different, Hugo went into Diagon Alley in search of something sweet. Thankfully he almost immediately came over the sweetshop and jumped inside, picking up a basket at the door. Then Hugo began to wander few, picking up this and that and all the rest as he skirted through the aisles, determining that if he was going to work overtime to get his paperwork done that night then he was going to do it with some sweets because there was no other away to make incident reports interesting to fill out. Nevertheless, he was looking forward to the extra pay it brought in. It kept him in sweets, that portion of his salary.
However, before he could think of anything else, Hugo found himself bumping into someone, the metallic clatter of the basket hitting the floor rising up to his ears. Hugo winced. He set down his basket hastily and knelt down to gather up the sweets that had fallen from the woman’s basket. With a little bit of speed and precision he’d gathered them up into his palms and had deposited them back into the basket so before long it became clear that nothing had been amiss in the first place – though the glare from the woman by the counter told him they were in trouble all the same.
“Sorry, love,” he made an apologetic face. “I was miles away, I didn’t see you. You alright? Do we need to exchange insurance and phone numbers or something?”