Summary: Charlie's second year in Hogwarts. He's just become the new Gryffindor seeker.
Disclaimer: Harry Potter and all related characters and Hogwarts belong to the amazingly creative J. K. Rowling and the lucky people at Warner Bros. I owned nothing except a few of original characters.
A/N: Keep in my mind that I made a mistake with Charlie's age. In this story, he's only 7 years older than Ron (ie. that would make Bill 13, Percy 9, Fred & George 7, Ron 5, and Ginny 4). I'm doing this so that I could include some of J. K.'s wonderful characters as Charlie gets older.
6th October
You won't believe this, but Cassandra actually got the chaser position! Can you believe my luck?? I suppose I should try to be civil with her. Anne said that she knows that Cassandra and I don't really get along but she told us specifically to work on that because she'd hate to lose "two players who have great potentials". So I made a 'truce' with Cassandra. We shook hands on it. Seeing the look on her face, you'd think that I had slime on my hands or something. Geez, could she be more suspicious? But I suck it up and said that since we'll be playing on the same team, we probably shouldn't be too eager to jump on each others' backs. I joked that I'd probably break her back if I jumped on it and, you know what, she actually smiled! Hmm, I wonder if she was laughing at me. That joke was sort of lame. Whatever, we probably won't be friends and that's just fine with me.
Our first game this year will be against Ravenclaw. They also got a new seeker and guess what. It's Cassandra's twin sister, Serena. I've never seen her on a broom before but Anne has warned me to watch out for her. Well, I hope that I could beat her. I'd sure hate it if I let the team down on my first game.
Mum sent me a dozen of fudge cookies (my favourite!) as a good luck for my first game. She also sent me a drawing that Ron made. It's so cute. In the picture, I am wearing scarlet robes, riding on my broom while Ron is sitting behind me, on the back of my broom. The whole family is there too, watching in the background. Dad is wearing his green work robes and Mum is holding the twins, who have identical toothless grins (they just lost both of their front teeth last summer), from flying away in their toy broomsticks. Bill is wearing his school robes and has an arm around Percy, both with great big smiles on their faces. The funniest part of the picture is Ginny. One of her hands is waving at me while the other is holding on to, get this, Harry Potter!!! I know this because the boy has a lightning bolt scar on his forehead. Hahaha, mum told me that Ginny has been asking about Harry Potter since I told her that story about how baby Harry defeated the scary dark wizard. What can I say, I'm a gifted story-teller! Well, no one really knows what happens to Harry (though I heard mum and dad talk about how some wizards have spotted him around Surrey), so I had to make up a lot of stuff. I don't think that baby Harry was actually rescued by a dragon after he got rid of you-know-who, but Ginny loves it anyway. Her favourite story is when Harry goes on adventures with his pet unicorn. Hmm, next time I'm in Hogsmeade, I'll check if anyone sold picture books about Harry Potter. That'll keep me as Ginny's favourite brother.
Mum also wrote a short letter about what's been going on in the Burrow since Bill and I left for school. At the bottom of the page, there is a scribble all over what was once the twins' message for me. I think they're telling me to "kick the other team's arses". Mum has spotted that and scrawled all over the word 'arses' and added a message of her own: "Charlie Weasley! Did you teach them that word?!" Hahaha, what do you expect, mum? The twins have very attentive ears; they could have picked it up from Bill or Percy… Well, that and I might have been bored babysitting them once and decided to teach them various names for our body parts. Hey, it was an anatomy lesson!
Oh well, I have to go practice Quidditch now. Let's just hope that Cassandra won't try to kill me today! Someone slipped pepper imps in her food last night and, since she's apparently allergic to pepper, her face started sprouting out really hideous boils. Madame Pomfrey easily fixed it of course, but she still sent me death glares from across the breakfast table this morning. I pulled on my most innocent face and ignored her. I didn't even know that she was allergic, but she was acting like I had 'guilty' stamped across my forehead. Alright, why am I supposed to be nice to her again? Right, Quidditch. OK, be civil, be civil, be civil…
A/N: I'd really appreciate it if people would review. I know that this isn't much and seems to feature very little of J. K.'s characters but I promise that I'll include more as Charlie grows up! I'll probably set the next chapter in Charlie's sixth year so that the twins would already be in their first year. What do you think of that? I don't really like creating lots of original characters coz there's a tendency that they'll be Mary-Sues. Plus, I hate coming up with names!