InsaneJournal

Late October

Journal of Billius Weasley and the goings on within the immediate family thereof,

Charlie has begun taking care of two boys that appear to be around Ron's age. I'm not going to put their names down yet, partly due to the fact that Charlie had a very valid worry as to someone else reading either the letters or this and going looking for the boys. Neither wish to go back to their parental figures anytime soon, and I particularly cannot blame them. Even with Charlie's youth, he'll make a better father figure than the others that had been taking care of them. I can see why my younger brother had a desire to go to the abandoned boy's house to kick the arses of the caregivers when he first heard what happened. He had bruises and sprained bones in places that were covered by the ill-fitting clothing he was wearing. Obviously the man who did this knew better than to have the bruises and cuts/scars show, but what was covered was... disheartening. I personally am amazed that the boy didn't run away before he was abandoned, though it sounds like they threatened him if he did try. There was evidence of older wounds, mostly in the form of scars, but a broken bone in his arm, well it healed mostly correct but it's like the last bit of healing went awry, and he doesn't have as much lifting power in that one. Luckily, it's not his dominant hand, but we may have to get a Healer to rebreak it and let it heal correctly. He has a couple of bitemarks, likely from the cousin he was talking about, but he gave as good as he got with those. Even if it got him punished. He's thin, he's had just enough to keep him healthy, but not enough for a growing boy. And he's had times where the punishments were being kept from food. The kid is also tanned, amazingly enough, though from the rest of the list it wouldn't seem like it. He apparently did a lot of outside chores when it was sunny out, which gave his skin a healthy glow, rather than the pallor he would have had with the rest of the stuff that's happened to him.

The second boy had at the same time a better and worse life than the abandoned one. His family was rich, so he was well off. His parents didn't beat him, or withhold food from him. In fact, on the surface his life was pretty close to perfect. However... his father was very into the Dark Arts, and wanted his son to follow in his footsteps, while his mother (not while in the presence of the father) taught the kid about how America worked, and how he should change Wizarding Britain into something that followed the ideals that that country strove for. So immediately, he was being taught conflicting ideals, and quite honestly, to the boys child mind, his mother's seemed like the most sensible. And he wasn't stupid enough to let his father know because the man would probably use the Dark Arts on him. Recently, his father changed the training to include the boy practicing the teachings on people that the man had brought to the house. The one that made him run away, were the two little girls that his father wanted him to cast the Imperious and Cruciatus on, because they refused to become little more than slaves to the man. His father eventually killed the girls, but not before the boy saw them being tortured in a horrible manner. He has a house elf that's his, and the little thing is helping Charlie. The elf loves the other boy, and it'll probably be in very little time that he's had enough to eat that will fill him out to something closer to a normal boy's size. I'll give a more coherant listing later of what I saw, but this'll at least keep some things straight for me, and probably unlock anything I've missed or forgotten...