A Different Weasley - Big brother Ron gets a letter from little brother Charlie. He panics.

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Bill's younger brother shows up in a whirlwind of flailing, incoherent shouting and with limbs trembling even as the Auror dragged him to a secluded area before hastily erecting a privacy bubble. "I thought you didn't have time off to visit until-" he starts to say.

Ron flails a bit more and now Bill can see his brother was holding a letter, "THAT'S NOT IMPORTANT RIGHT NOW!"

"Did you just leave?" Bill sputters because his brother loved his job, for him to leave when he was on duty to visit - though… "Did you just Apparate to Egypt!?"

The letter was waved in his face, "NOT IMPORTANT!" Ron bellows at him, "DRAGON! AT! HOGWARTS! CHARLIE!"

"Let me see if I got this right," he says, voice forcibly clam because one of them has to and clearly it wasn't going to be his brother. "Charlie wrote to you about a dragon at Hogwarts-" Ron nodded rapidly and Bill guessed, because it was Charlie and it wasn't the first time something like this had happened - it had probably been too much to hope that this particular habit wouldn't pop up at Hogwarts. "-that he's hiding from the teachers and now he wants our help to 'free' it into it's natural habitat?"

Ron manages to keep from yelling though his words come out as loud and chocked, "How? Dragon! How?!"

"…I have no idea." Bill admitted, earning a kind of groaning shriek of dismay.

He was taught to deal with fearsome goblins, horrible curses and lethal traps - not dragons.

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A/N: This is actually part of a series on AO3, titled The Affairs of Wizards, and I thought it'd be kind of silly to just post a bunch of different drabbles as different stories so I kept them all as one story. The longer, non-drabble parts of the series will be their own stories.

If anyone's curious, I am counting a drabble as anywhere from 100 words to 3500 words.