A/N Helluuu!

This is not important, just scroll through me complaining about my life.

Another slow update, sorry. I am crazy busy with exam preparations and school board meeting and planning the graduation party at the beach NEXT MONTH! OMG I just realised that I've only got about a month left till graduation!

(it's not proper graduation with the hats and the robes and all that jazz, but still, it is 10 years of school, before you choose a more specific direction (media, arts, carpenter, nurse, ect.))

Then I'm moving to Belgium for three more years of school, before I go to university... (School will never be over :( Graduation just gives you false hopes)

Well, so I am also the kind of person who doesn't know ow to say 'NO', so I've got too many responsibilities.

"Hannah, can you come as a student representative to the school board meeting?"

"Could you help me study mathematics, I don't get Pythagoras?"

"Hannah, could you write another cheesy-boy-band-mocking song for us?"

I just nod my head like a lunatic and now I have squeezed in FF writing between ten past midnight and twenty five past. (Between my Spanish revision and FF reading)

NOW IT'S INTERESTING!

I'd just like to say thank you to everyone that had to wait so long and that without FF, I would have died of lack of "ME" time ("Shut up, Victoria, I'm reading fanfiction, Call Melisa with your boyfriend troubles or talk to me during lunch, it's after midnight!")

Music inspiration (feelings, not lyrics)

My Chemical Romance (3)

The Pretty Reckless

Kaizers Orchestra / watch?v=YNozTHSQHo

and Sucker Punch soundtrack.

THIS IS WHERE THE CHAPTER STARTS

Disclaimer: I own Sofia, not Harry...

Charlie Weasley was a womaniser. He wasn't ashamed of it, as long as his mother never found out.

He would get a new girlfriend about every other week. They simply adored his British accent, dragon tattoos and loved to hear the stories about his scars. He was handsome and funny, but he had one major flaw, he was afraid of commitment. To be sure that he would never become committed (or as he called it; bound to some hag by goblin made chains, bored to death by the nagging and kept from seeing his beloved dragons...) he would terminate his relationships after two weeks, and mostly date girls that could never be "the one". His mother would often complain about him not settling down, finding a girl and come home. He had enough sense not to tell her that he had already found a girl... And another, and another, and another... When You-Know-Who came back, Charlie grew anxious for his family back home. His womanising was put on hold for a year, until Dumbledore died. He figured, if Dumbledore could die, so could he. So he wanted to live his life to the fullest with lots of dragons and girls. He only ever bothered to remember one.

At the start of august, after a long, failed, day of recruiting wizards to their side, Charlie went to a pub in the village, intending to get a girl for the week. He looked for single girls sitting alone, they often used him as a rebound-guy, he didn't mind, it just made it easier when they broke up with him. He spied a pretty platinum blond sitting by herself, looking miserable. He put on his most charming smile and walked towards her. "I wouldn't do that if I were you..." He halted and turned to see another blond (though her hair was natural) sitting by the bar. "Sorry?" "I wouldn't shag the blond. She just found out that all her friends are married except her and is dying for a commitment." Charlie took an automatic step away from the blond commitment. "S'what I thought." He hesitated before sitting down at the bar next to her and mumbling his muggle edition of the nagging hag fear. She looked bemused at him. "Okay, well I promise not to tie you up in chains, as long as you don't try to chat me up. I've seen you in this bar before, picking up a new girl each week, you womaniser," she laughed and elbowed him (PAINFULLY) "so I figure you might need a friend. Name's Sofia, what's yours?"
"Charlie."
"Nice to meet you Charlie." She stood up and walked over to the door, dragging him with her, and told him they were going bowling, whatever in Merlin's name that was...

It was about eight months later and Sofia was visiting Charlie for the first time. Her first shock was that he lived almost three hours away from the bar they met in, the second was the fact that she almost turned back five time, because she thought she was going to be a bridesmaid in her sisters wedding, she had three brothers, and not a sister. But the biggest shock must've been when a shining silver horse burst into his livingroom and started talking. "Charlie, we are fighting at Hogwarts, Harry's here, so get your dragon loving arse out of Romania and help us." Charlie jumped up, pulled out a wooden stick from his back pocket and aimed at the window "Expecto Partonum, I'm coming firecracker!" And a shining, silver dragon, the size of an elephant, came out of his stick and squeezed out of his window. "So sorry, Sofia, I've got to go. Just stay here, I'll explain later, unless I die..." Then he took her in his arms and kissed her. The kiss stopped almost before it started. He turned on the spot and with a 'pop' he had disappeared, leaving her alone in his apartment. "Before you what?"

Charlie made it to Hogshead, where he helped Bill get the reinforcements into the castle. "If this doesn't end soon, you go get the Horntail, yeah?" Ginny shouted at him before she dived into a duel with Bellatrix, quickly accompanied by Luna and Hermione. Everything from there was a whirl of multicoloured lights flashing everywhere. In the end there were only friends surrounding him, staring over his shoulder at his mother duelling Bellatrix. "NOT MY DAUGHTER YOU BITCH!" Then the bitch died, and then Harry was there (didn't he die?), and then Voldemort was dead. It all happened at once. Charlie spent a few hours with his family, staring at Fred's face, not quite comprehending that he could be dead.
"I have to go." He turned and walked out of the Great Hall. "Where are you going?" Ginny stood a few feet behind him. "I have to tell Sofia I'm alive!"
"WHO?"

After using an hour to get through the portkey office and then apparated home, he stood outside his door for almost ten minutes. He had kissed Sofia, only hours ago... He had never kissed her before. Yes he knew he was attracted to her, she was a female with a pulse after all, but he had never showed his interest to her in other than stopping his womanising. 'Screw this' he thought, 'I faced death eaters, why should I be afraid of Sofia?' He opened the door to see a multicoloured tsunami coming towards him. "WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN!" Sofia looked furious, she raced forward and tackled him to the ground, holding his wrists and pressing her knee into his back. "And WHAT ON EARTH was the silver 'thingy'?" she leaped off him and ran to the sofa, where she picked up some photo frames, she was back and waited as he sat up, only to thrust the pictures in his stomach, making him fall backwards. "These are moving photographs, MOVING!" she hit his stomach. "Ouch!"
" 'I'll explain later, unless I die?' and then poof you're gone! Do you have any idea how worried I've been?" She hit him again, before she sat on his stomach to keep him from escaping. "Explain."
Charlie braced himself. Sofia was likely to hit him again for saying there was magic in the world. "I'm a wizard. I grew up in a wizarding family in England, I went to a school of magic, I work with dragons and tonight I went to fight the most evil wizard of all time's followers and a few hours ago he died! He died! Voldemort died. Harry killed him, my little brothers best friend defeated lord bloody Voldemort! My family is no longer in danger!" Charlie felt his face getting moist. Sofia released him and sat him up against the door, holding around him while he cried on her shoulder, howling "he died," over and over. "If he died, then why aren't you happy?" Sofia asked. Charlie was surprised that she believed him, and not slapped him for lying to her, like she normally would. "F-Fred died..." He picked up one of the frames from the floor next to him and pointed at the newspaper clipping from the time he was in Egypt with the family. Fred was there, laughing with George, as always.
"Your brother?" Charlie nodded and straightened up. "Look, I'm sorry for kissing you. If you didn't like it, I won't do it again, but I thought I was going to- well." He looked at the picture again where Percy was busy chasing after Fred who had stolen his Headboy badge.
"It's okay, just don't do it again... I like you it's just that, well. It's not you, it's me. And I am not just saying that! Well... you know the blond in the pub where we met?" He nodded. "She was desperate for a commitment, so I broke it off with her." He looked at her blankly. "I'm gay, Charlie, sorry." She laughed and patted his head before she stood up, dragging him with her. "You look dead on your feet, get some sleep, I found a bottle of dreamless sleep potion that you can take. Does it really work..." She trailed off as she went out to get the bottle. Charlie changed into his pyjamas, all the Weasley boys had gotten these pyjamas for Christmas, a few years ago. Their Mum had charmed them so that they would always fit you. Charlie remembered Ginny throwing a fit when all the boys got blue pyjamas and she got a pink dress, so Fred had given her his set, and worn her dress all Christmas. Charlie was 11 at the time, but he still remembers it as clear as it was yesterday. He tried not to think about Fred and snuggled under the covers instead. Sofia gave him half a glass of potion before she lay down beside him to him. "Just 'cause I can't be your girlfriend," she whispered, "doesn't mean I'm leaving. You can tell me all about magic tomorrow, I'll still be here. Always" It was four weeks since the big 'coming-out-day'. Charlie was coming for a surprise visit to the Burrow to introduce Sofia and see how George was doing. Sofia held her breath as he apparated them to the apparition spot next to his fathers shed. It was almost midnight and the inhabitants at the Burrow were sleeping. Hi held up his finger to his lips so that Sofia wouldn't wake them up by talking. He opened the kitchen door and saw a sight he would never forget. Ginny was propped up on the kitchen counter, holding on to Harry for dear life and snogging the daylights out of him. There was pastry everywhere and a home-made bread on the windowsill. "What the hell do you think your doing?" Charlie shouted at the pair that was pulling apart. Sofia pulled on his sleeve and put her finger to her lips, eyebrows raised, reminding him to be quiet. "Hey, Charlie, how's the dragons?" Said Ginny casually before she put her arms around Harry's neck again, demanding his attention. Harry obliged and soon they were snogging, but not as wildly as before. Charlie growled and charged at Harry, that womanising git, and they both crashed to the floor where Charlie pinned Harry to the ground. "Don't touch Ginny, I don't want you to hurt her, so go sleep with someone else, Ginny deserves someone proper, not some womanising-"
"Charlie!" Ginny shouted and tried to drag him off Harry, but Charlie was big and strong and wouldn't budge. "You bloody idiot! Leave Harry alone, or Merlin help me I will curse you to Jupiter and back, under-age restriction be damned!" she screamed at him.
Charlie then felt something hit his side and he rolled off Harry. Sofia had him pinned again.
"You know Charlie," she said calmly. "just because you can't treat women properly, doesn't mean that Harry can't." Charlie thought about it. Sofia was right. Charlie had seen Harry snog his little firecracker and lost it, thinking he did not want Ginny to be treated like he treated his girlfriends.
"Sorry." Charlie mumbled to Harry. Harry nodded but Ginny just threatened that if she was 17, she would batboogey his dragon loving arse... "I just lost it for a moment... Sofia, could you?" Sofia let him up and turned to the couple covered in pastry. "Did we wake anyone?"
"No, Harry cast silencing charms around the kitchen when we had a food fight." There was an awkward silence "So what do you think about my sister Sofia?" Charlie asked, but before Sofia could answer, Ginny exclaimed "You're THE Sofia! The one Charlie told me about!"
Sofia raised her eyebrow at Charlie. "I didn't tell her anything horrible about you!" He raised his arms in defence. Ginny murmured something that sounded like 'whipped'.
"Hello, I'm Harry, Nice to meet you." He extended his hand before he took out his wand and cleaned the messy kitchen up with a few cleaning spells. Charlie watched how Ginny and Harry silently communicated for a few minutes. "How long have the two of you been together?" Charlie asked.
"Well, if you count the time we were separated because this noble git-"
"didn't want Riddle use you as bait, like he did when you were 11-" Harry defended.
"I'd say about a year, since the last match against Ravenclaw." They smiled at each other. "Well," said Ginny, walking towards the staircase. "Harry and I are off to bed after you so rudely interrupted our already limited time together. And no, Charlie, not the same bed." She added when Charlie was about to comment. "George's room is unoccupied," Harry said before he walked up after Ginny. Charlie heard them kiss and say goodnight before Ginny's door shut and Harry continued walking up to the attic.
"Well, that went well..." said Sofia. "You were right, Ginny is a feisty little firecracker, shame she's got a boyfriend. I definitely wouldn't mind if she wanted to womanise me!"

AN

I think it's a sad that Charlie doesn't get a family. So I made him one, small, one. Sofia is my twist on getting Charlie a 'family' in Romania that doesn't change canon. Sofia is like Hermione is to Harry, a sister, but not the overly girlie (not saying Hermione is) type that will 'chain him up and keep him from his lovely dragons.' She's one of the boys, and doesn't go out to be the defender of morals like other women, tells him when he needs telling. If I was writing an epilogue about Charlie and Sofia, they would be living together and be eternal bachelors. Him telling her about the magical world and her telling him about the muggle world. This chapter probably has a lot of spelling mistakes, so if you see them, please tell me, I don't mind you telling me in a rude way, I still want to know!