LIFE STORIES 2: CHARLIE WEASLEY
Life Stories: Charlie Weasley
Charlie Weasley was born on November the fifth 1972. He was the second son to Arthur and Molly Weasley. For two years it was just Bill and Charlie, but then mummy got fat and told them that they’ll have a baby brother or sister.
When Percy was born, Charlie spent a lot of time with one of his mummy’s friends. Her name was Andromeda Tonks; she was a blood traitor just like his mum. Andromeda had a daughter called Nymphadora who could change her appearance at will. He could remember the things they did.
“NYMPHADORA MALLORY TONKS!”
“CHARLES ROMOLOUS WEASLEY!”
“Yes mummy?” the two of them asked sweetly
“Don’t act all innocent on me Charlie I know what you did” Mrs Weasley snapped
“The same goes for you Nymphadora” Mrs Tonks added
“But mummy I don’t know what’s going on” Dora pouted her hair changing from mousy brown to a Weasley red.
“Oh so Percy decided he likes pink ribbons in his hair” Mrs Tonks snapped “now turn your hair back to brown”
“But I hate my hair, and I want to be a Weasley, they actually play Qudditch” Dora said
“Dora’s my twin sister now!” Charlie said jumping up and down “mummy can I keep Dora?”
“Charlie!” Mrs Weasley snapped.
“Charlie sweetie, Dora is my daughter so she lives here, now why don’t you two play upstairs” Mrs Tonks said
Over the years Charlie and Dora became inseparable, best friends forever. Dora was an only child but she loved going to the burrow to play with Charlie’s brothers. The pair taught Fred and George every prank they played on Percy. (They didn’t realise the consequences) they taught Ron how to play chess, Percy how to fly and Ginny how to fight.
Then it was time to go to Hogwarts. They sat next to each other on the train; they shared the same boat and held each others hand through the sorting. It was then they got separated.
“Tonks Nymphadora”
“HUFFLEPUFF!”
“No,” Charlie groaned Dora’s hair turned bright canary yellow as she walked to the Hufflepuff table. He of course was sorted in Gryffindor.
Charlie was a good student; he did well in all his subjects and followed all the rules. Dora however was a troublemaker. It didn’t help that she was acting out. It didn’t help that people were bulling her. It was an ongoing cycle, someone will say or do something to her, she’ll cry, then do something like set the bed curtains on fire, get a detention, get a howler and it will start all over again.
Charlie blamed it on the howler. If Andromeda didn’t scream Nymphadora about a hundred times no one will say anything.
“Charlie, hey CHARLIE!” Dora shouted waving her arms
“Dora, please don’t-”
“Don’t what? Don’t wave my arms about? Don’t talk to you?” she snapped
“No, I-”
“You’re embarrassed” she whispered true to her words Charlie was turning red as a tomato. “Well then, if you’re embarrassed then what kind of friend are you?” as her anger grew the redder her hair and eyes got.
“Dora please-”
“DON’T DORA ME CHARLIE! IF THAT’S HOW YOU FEEL THEN YOU’RE NO LONGER MY FRIEND!” she screamed. She the immediately ran towards her common room.
The next two years were slightly hellish for Charlie. All the Weasleys were on Dora’s side. Mrs Weasley still made Dora brightly coloured jumpers; Charlie saw the magenta and fuchsia stripy one during second year. Bill told Charlie all the times Dora got caught do something. She got steadily worse over the two years, fighting, failing to hand in her homework and many many more situations. Charlie became a seeker for the Qudditch team in second year.
It wasn’t till fourth year, when Charlie and Dora talked together. It was a Qudditch match between Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff. Charlie only went to check out the competion.
“And the Hufflepuff team, Shacklebolt, Smith, Warren, Fisher, Morris, Anderson aaaaaaaaaaaand Tonks!” the commentator bellowed
Charlie’s head snapped up to see the only girl on the team; it was quite hard to find her because her hair was in black spikes.
After two long hours she caught the snitch. Charlie went to the party in the Hufflepuff common room. He didn’t find her there. He wandered round the corridors for a bit, when he found her in the north tower smoking.
“You shouldn’t do that, McGonagall will give you one hell of a detention” he said.
“Like you care” she snorted
“I do care Dora-
“Don’t call me that! It’s Tonks now. Dora grew up” she hissed stubbing her cigarette out.
“To me you’ll be Dora, my best friend who wears bright colours” Charlie said
She laughed harshly, her hair lengthened, and changed into a dirty blond colour, her eyes flashed blue and her chest grew out.
“Is this what you want Charlie? After all Nymphadora is a stripper name” she said.
“No! I don’t want that!” he said
She smiled “so what do you want? I can be anything you want me to be” at that point she had stood up and sauntered seductively towards him “after all that’s all I’m worth”
“No you’re worth a lot more than that” he snarled getting frustrated
“Then why didn’t you want me around in first year?” she asked tears forming in her eyes.
“Because I had a huge crush on you and didn’t know how to handle it” WAIT! Did that actually come out of his mouth? But to his surprise she went a pleasant shade of pink, hair included.
They were friends till half way through seventh year. It was Christmas, and the seventh years had a huge party in the room of requirements. Tonks went all festive, green hair with matching tights, and a short red dress. They were rather drunk and ended up in a broom closet with each other. Charlie was in heaven he landed rather horribly when Snape caught them.
They kept the relationship till graduation. Tonks was the one that wanted to break up, said they were going down different paths. He never told her that he was planning to propose to her, never gave her the small engagement ring.
So he played with dragons, got involved with girls, got burnt and barely saw his family. He didn’t see Tonks till the summer of 97. He was planning on fighting for the war. Seeing Tonks was the bonus. Seeing Tonks married nearly killed him.
The months in England steadily got worse. Voldemorts rise to power and Tonks’s pregnancy. When Remus disappeared for a few days Charlie stayed and comforted her, he was hoping that Remus wouldn’t return. But he did.
He wasn’t named godfather to baby Teddy like Tonks hinted. He never managed to win her back; she was just so madly in love with the old werewolf to notice him. The final battle came. Percy was reunited and Fred was lost. Charlie felt numb, and then he saw Tonks’s body. Her hair was bright pink, she wore her brightly coloured Weasley jumper and a pair of jeans under her dark blue robes and her hand was tightly clasped in her dead husband’s hand. Charlie cried.
He never got over her. Never found a girl perfect enough. He couldn’t stand the idea of finding someone new. For years he stayed in Romania. Then he was asked to take over the transfiguration post. Then he was forced to watch Tonks’s son marry his niece.
He loved teaching. He stayed at Hogwarts a teacher, head of Gryffindor house. And then Neville Longbottom made him deputy headmaster. Charlie died while trying to safe a first year that fell in the lake. He got caught in some seaweed, and died.
When he did die, he swore he could hear her.
“Charlie! Charlie lets go flying, let’s play with your brothers and sister, don’t call me Dora it’s Tonks”
Authors note: a bit short. This is the second in a new series. The series is entwined with soul twins in some cases; others are just a bit of fun. The third one will either be Emmeline Vance or Dennis Creevey.
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