thoughtfox72:

so today is the day of the incomparable CHARLIE WEASLEY what a boy. it’s a huge shame we never saw him in the films, and out of all the weasley kids we probably see him the least in the books but that doesn’t make him any less awesome. here’s what we got:

 – i feel like we learn everything we need to know about charlie in PS. his baby brother writes to him in his first year at hogwarts like what’s up charlie can you smuggle an illegal dragon out of a highly protected castle for me and charlie’s just like sure, no problem. hope your studies are going well. i’ll sort the dragon. love charlie.

– what. not only does charlie not tell the ministry, the school, their parents or their other siblings (or at least, not percy fred or george – I feel like he might have told bill. later. much later), which ron trusts him not to do without a second thought, but he also flawlessly plans and executes having his friends smuggle a dragon out of hogwarts because his brother asked him to. you can’t tell me that isn’t a pretty tricky business. no brother will ever be this cool.

– he is a quidditch LEGEND. this kid could have played for ENGLAND if he wanted to. judging by the only professional match we see in the books, that must mean he can play to a pretty fierce standard (although granted we know england are not as good as ireland or bulgaria. but maybe they would have been if they had charlie weasley).

– why doesn’t he play for england? literally every wizard kid’s dream? because he LOVES DRAGONS. he loves them that much. when we actually meet him he’s got burn scars from these fiery shits. is he bothered? of course not.

– at the world cup he is super into the quidditch but not so much that he can’t pull back and reassure ginny when she’s worried about the players. and then everything goes sideways and he is right there with his bros, sleeves rolled up, ready to destroy some muggle haters.  

– he’s trusted by dumbledore to represent the order and its interests internationally. we don’t hear of anyone else doing this and it involves some serious trust – that’s dumbledore trusting charlie to vet wizards in another country and bring them into the order on his own judgement. but he still drops everything when he hears about the battle at hogwarts and comes all the way from ROMANIA to join the battle and still makes it in time to kill death eaters.

(also hogwarts mystery charlie is a treat. that’s all i can think of to describe him)