Just to begin, I don't own any of the characters. Please leave comments (I need guidance).
Also, I mixed the original characters with their remade selves and it's kind of an AU because the kids are teenagers (except Charlie) because I didn't want to write a romantic pairing with ten and eleven year-olds and everyone is American.
Augustus Gloop was overjoyed to have found the first golden ticket. The news crew had showed up to his father's little butcher shop in downtown Pittsburgh and he was so excited and overwhelmed by all the positive attention. As soon as the interview had ended however, he knew he didn't want it to air on TV. Augustus had fallen back on that German accent that he tried so hard to suppress. He was actually American, but his parents had come from Germany, and he had been seven years old before he went to public school and learned English.
Augustus had never made any friends in school, and in fact, the children had always been quite mean to him. No one wanted to be friends with the quiet chubby kid who ate sauerkraut for lunch. To make bad worse, when he had first started school, his father's shop wasn't as successful as it grew to be, and the Gloop family couldn't buy clothes to keep up with Augustus's growing body. At first kids just ignored him but as he grew older they began to laugh at and taunt him. He would cry and hide from his attackers, and he would try to tell his parents, but they couldn't do much to help. All they could do was tell him that they loved him and try to make him feel better by cooking his favorite German dishes. By middle school, the kids didn't just tease him, they shoved him and hit him and threw books at him. He still cried but not in public.
Now a junior in high school, the kids seemed to have grown bored of harassing him, but no one was kind and he still got the odd shove or malicious giggle every once in a while. He tried not to be in the spotlight, to provoke the bullying, but winning the golden ticket had made him so excited. He knew now that he had been unwise, letting his guard down (on national television of all places!), and that he would pay the price. He still had about a month before his trip to the mysterious factory, and many months of school after that.
Finally, after three weeks of searching, Veruca's father had gotten her a golden ticket. She was happy, so much so that she hugged her father as if she were still a little girl and didn't ask for anything else for five whole days.
She'd done it! Violet has won a golden ticket. For a while she wasn't sure she would (because the contest was based more on luck that skill), but she hoped and prayed and just kept opening candy bars, and finally she had done it! (Her mother must be so proud of her.)
Mike never wanted a golden ticket; he just didn't get the appeal. But his father did. Oh boy, did his father want a golden ticket. It was all he could talk about. So finally, Mike decided to help him out by deciphering the code used to distribute the tickets, because he really did love his father.
Charlie never could have dreamed that he would actually have found a golden ticket. His family was poor and he only ever bought two Wonka Bars, but here he was, the final ticket winner. At just nine years old, he was by far the youngest kid going to the factory but he didn't worry because he knew his grandpa would be right by his side the whole time.