you know which weasley doesnāt get enough love? charlie. so because I want to write without actually writing, here are some of my charlie headcanons
charlie is queer ā he doesnāt label himself any further than that, he just says queer.
in his early-to-mid-30ās he gets injured while heās working with one of the dragons. badly. think, unable to be fixed by any of the healers heās gone to.
so as much as it kills him, he has to āretireā (but he promises heāll be back to working with dragons some day, this injury wonāt stop him)
but he doesnāt see the point in staying in romania so he moves back to the uk. heās only in his parentsā house for a few days before he canāt stand it anymore
molly, though he loves her more than anyone else, is driving him crazy with her constant lurking and babying. he tells ron about it and ron offers his spare room
charlie gratefully accepts. he and ron have always been super close. ron, who is more like their mother than anyone thinks, actually enjoys taking care of charlie, but he doesnāt hover like their mother did
the longer charlie is back, the more lonely he starts to feel. all of his siblings have partners or spouses, and they even have kids. he starts to feel behind, like he wasted his time focusing on his work instead of his personal life.
shortly after charlie moves in, ron has a bunch of his friends from hogwarts over (his boyfriend, justin, harry, hermione, luna, neville)
neville and charlie immediately hit it off (it helps that theyāre the only two single ones, but, you know)
neville makes charlie a potion to help with his pain out of the plants in the hogwarts greenhouses (it turns out neville is actually good at brewing potions when snape isnāt around)
soon neville starts coming over when ron isnāt home ā sometimes he brings charlie potions, sometimes he comes with packages of the best food from hogwarts (ron is definitely jealous of that)
charlie hasnāt had a crush on someone in years (not since hogwarts, really) and it kind of scares him, especially since neville is rons age
theyāre āfriendsā for months, and when charlie is feeling good enough to go out into the real world, neville is the one that takes him out.
they go to a pub that charlie doesnāt remember the name of, but itās definitely not a muggle pub because everyone seems to know neville. they sit down in a corner booth and neville goes to get them drinks. while heās gone, charlie decides that heās going to tell neville tonight
he isnāt even sure if neville likes guys and it might ruin their friendship, but charlie has to tell him.
throughout the night, charlie keeps trying to think of a way to bring it up, but he doesnāt know how. heās waiting for an easy opening, a seamless transition into the subject but he canāt find one
thereās a lull in their conversation and charlie thinks that this is his moment but before he can start forming the sentence in his mind, neville speaks up
and tells charlie that he likes him
as more than just a friend
charlie is shocked and he laughs a little. neville looks a bit hurt but charlie quickly explains that he was going to tell neville the same thing
the next morning, ron isnāt surprised to see neville coming out of charlieās room