Author's note: This is a long story that will tie in with several one-shots I've already written. A couple of lines, I've expanded from my older fics and reworked here. However, no background knowledge is required for this one-it can be read independently. With that, and a few relevant lyrics, here we go!

She never seemed to notice
That this silly schoolboy crush
Wasn't just pretend

Once you'd gone there was never
Never an honest word

We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice
You have a choice

Charlie Weasley went off to study dragons.

The Charlie Weasley, best Seeker of his day, best Quidditch player of his day overall really, went off to Romania, to study dragons.

Katie remembers that year, how Oliver Wood saw her whizzing around on a school broom between classes, how he stammered to Hooch, that since she was twelve, maybe that'd make her old enough, how Snape had laughed that her little school broom would grow wings and fly to the Forbidden Forest of its own accord before he'd let a first year play, how McGonagall had smiled and told Wood that he didn't need to worry about lacking confidence, how he discovered Alicia Spinnet at literally the eleventh hour before the game began, how they were flattened anyway. How she still decided she wanted to play Quidditch as soon as she could.

"Charlie Weasley," she feels compelled to point out. "the Charlie Weasley, best Seeker of his day—"

"Best Quidditch player of his day overall, really," Lee Jordan contributes from a couch.

"Right, that, went off to Romania, to study dragons."

There's a brief pause.

"I don't like dragons, really," says Alicia. "They breathe fire and all."

"I know, I know. But...Alicia, broomstick-crafting, really? Angelina, don't think I don't know what you're thinking about. If Charlie Weasley can find something besides Quidditch to do, surely you can."

"Oh, and what are you going into?" Angelina retorts. "Bell-ringing?"

"Musica universalis is an interesting field of magical research," she retorts, "and besides, I've got another year before career advice meetings."