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CHARLIE WEASLEY formally resigns from his job at Stornoway Reserve when it becomes clear that his hope he will ever recover to the physical standard necessary for dragonkeepers is never going to come true. He has a few rough years adapting to his disability -- becoming disabled enough to have to give up dragonkeeping was his Boggart all through the war years -- and he'll always have some bad days here and there for the rest of his life, even once he's mostly adapted to his lingering limitations. His relationship with Deirdre and Emmett doesn't survive those rough years, but after six months or so for everybody to forgive each other for the awful things they said, they manage to go back to being friends.
He and Tonks do indeed never get married, but live out the rest of their lives in love and cheerful scandal at Grimmauld Place (with the occasional girlfriend, boyfriend, and one-night-stand dropping in as well), raising their kids and anyone else's who wander by and don't duck fast enough. Six months after Charlie resigns from the Reserve, the Goblins inform him that he has been appointed Albion's Ambassador to the Goblin Nation whether he likes it or not, and he's wildly successful in the role and in integrating Human and Goblin culture.
Charlie's ambassadorial role and his and Tonks' tendency to open their doors to anyone who wants a cuppa and a conversation means that Grimmauld Place becomes a locus of cultural exchange, particularly once he and Tonks start fostering Goblin children who want to spend time in the wizarding world. For years to come, a visit to Grimmauld means you're likely to run into any one of a number of powerful people, sitting around the kitchen table and having a conversation about anything and everything. (When Charlie is having a particularly bad day and needs to blow off some steam, Tonks tells him to go open the soundproof glass case and curtain around Mrs Black's portrait and taunt her about what the Ancestral Home of Black is being used for.)
Adam grows up culturally part-Goblin -- the year before he goes to Hogwarts, he's the first Human child to be fostered by the Goblins, although in his case, it was more that he wanted more time with his Goblin best friend. When he does attend Hogwarts, he is the first Weasley in generations to be sorted into Slytherin, which bothers precisely no-one. Charlie and Tonks keep their promise to never tell him about the circumstances of his conception, and the only after-effects he ever experiences are an unerring sense of where he is in the world (and where everyone around him is), a complete inability to ever get lost, and an unusual sensitivity to ley-magic.
Charlie's project to get people to share their memories of Sirius and Remus so that Bea and Adam can remember their other parents expands almost immediately to collecting memories of everyone in the Order who died during the war, and from there, to collecting general oral histories of the war years. The books he writes, collecting those stories and interspersing them with quotes (with permission!) from the Order Only locked journal entries and various PMs people provide him, wind up being one of the primary sources historians use for their analysis of the Voldemort Interregnum for a long time to come.
He and Tonks do indeed never get married, but live out the rest of their lives in love and cheerful scandal at Grimmauld Place (with the occasional girlfriend, boyfriend, and one-night-stand dropping in as well), raising their kids and anyone else's who wander by and don't duck fast enough. Six months after Charlie resigns from the Reserve, the Goblins inform him that he has been appointed Albion's Ambassador to the Goblin Nation whether he likes it or not, and he's wildly successful in the role and in integrating Human and Goblin culture.
Charlie's ambassadorial role and his and Tonks' tendency to open their doors to anyone who wants a cuppa and a conversation means that Grimmauld Place becomes a locus of cultural exchange, particularly once he and Tonks start fostering Goblin children who want to spend time in the wizarding world. For years to come, a visit to Grimmauld means you're likely to run into any one of a number of powerful people, sitting around the kitchen table and having a conversation about anything and everything. (When Charlie is having a particularly bad day and needs to blow off some steam, Tonks tells him to go open the soundproof glass case and curtain around Mrs Black's portrait and taunt her about what the Ancestral Home of Black is being used for.)
Adam grows up culturally part-Goblin -- the year before he goes to Hogwarts, he's the first Human child to be fostered by the Goblins, although in his case, it was more that he wanted more time with his Goblin best friend. When he does attend Hogwarts, he is the first Weasley in generations to be sorted into Slytherin, which bothers precisely no-one. Charlie and Tonks keep their promise to never tell him about the circumstances of his conception, and the only after-effects he ever experiences are an unerring sense of where he is in the world (and where everyone around him is), a complete inability to ever get lost, and an unusual sensitivity to ley-magic.
Charlie's project to get people to share their memories of Sirius and Remus so that Bea and Adam can remember their other parents expands almost immediately to collecting memories of everyone in the Order who died during the war, and from there, to collecting general oral histories of the war years. The books he writes, collecting those stories and interspersing them with quotes (with permission!) from the Order Only locked journal entries and various PMs people provide him, wind up being one of the primary sources historians use for their analysis of the Voldemort Interregnum for a long time to come.
