Quick Charlie Question

[author_by_night]

(Sorry, non-HP people, another public Harry Potter post.)

So I was reading some Charlie Weasley fanfic, and I realized that a lot of the time, Charlie is portrayed as either:

- An Adonis.

- A sexaholic.

- Both.

Am I the only one who sort of sees Charlie as a bit like a younger Hagrid with more common sense and less alcoholism?  I mean, I do see his job as being in a very rugged, busy atmosphere where there was more time for lust than actual love, so I'm sure he's not Mr. Committment, but I'm not sure where people get Sexy Dragon-Lovin' Adonis Player from. Bill, I can see, but not Charlie.

How do you see Charlie Weasley?

Comments

[lyras.livejournal.com]

To me, Charlie's the Little Black Dress of the Weasley family: we get so little of him in canon that you can kind of dress him up the way you want. Plus, I think the dragons thing is attractive to a lot of people who wouldn't necessarily go for the rugged type in real life, but who like daydreaming about it once in a while. :) And (while there could easily be plenty of women hanging around the dragon enclosures) it's an easy cliche to have him as sex-starved whenever he's on leave.

In a Charlie/Petunia story I wrote, Charlie turned out to be very down to earth, but also quite self-contained. I developed quite a crush on (my version of) him while writing!