Charlie Weasley always liked dragons
Charlie Weasley always liked dragons. To him, they were the coolest creatures ever. They could fly and breath fire. He'd spend hours pretending to be a dragon or getting Percy or Bill or sometimes little Fred and George would play with him with his little stuffed dragons.
Charlie's dragons were his pride and joy. Every birthday, Christmas or Easter he'd ask for was stuffed dragons. It all started with his first scaly lizard when he was four years old. The dragon, which he'd name Fluffy (this is how Hagrid got the idea to name Fluffy the Three-Headed Dog Fluffy), was now missing an eye and had turned brown from being dropped in the dirt. Charlie refused to allow Molly or Arthur to clean Fluffy. His collection had now expanded to 25 dragons and his mum tried and tried to convince to him to ask him for something for his birthday.
His parents worried about him; he was 9, but had shown no signs of magic at all. One day Molly was sitting and knitting in the living room while the boys played. Percy was upstairs reading, a new skill he had been taught by Bill over the summer. Bill was at school now and Ron and Ginny were taking a rare nap.
That day Charlie was playing with Fred and George; they were running around the room holding the dragons over their heads as if the dragons were flying. Charlie threw his dragon and Molly knew it would fall on the sofa--except this time it didn't, the small, formerly stuffed dragon was actually flying.
Its wings were moving and it was breathing real fire! She rushed Charlie, Fred, and George from the room and faced the dragon. He landed on the chair she had just vacated and coughed up some which lit her abandoned yarn and knitting needles on fire. She quickly used an anti-animation charm on the dragon and cleaned up the area.
In a way, she was relieved. Charlie had done magic, and would go to Hogwarts in two years time, Though Arthur's Christmas jumper was toast.
A/N So this is Charlie. These are short because it's just a series of little oneshots. This will not include Harry though because some are listed in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone.