On one summer evening, Charlie Hawthorne found himself among the tired-looking commuters within a subway car that was headed for Tottenham Court Station.
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Lonely men and women loitered on the passing platforms, while the conductor spoke over the intercom, "In a few moments, we will be arriving at the Central Line after departing from the Charing Cross branch of the Northern line. I must ask you to remain seated until the train comes to a complete stop."
Charlie only half-listened. His mind was too preoccupied on the excitement that swelled up inside of him. Today would be the day where he'd finally see Hermione for the first time in over a month. Sure, they had written letters to one another constantly, but it wasn't the same as seeing one another in person.
The brown eyed boy had spent majority of his summer at 12 Grimmauld Place, you see. Charlie had kept busy with helping renovate the hidden house as it would naturally be the new headquarters for the upcoming revamped Order of the Phoenix, a secret society formed to oppose the work of Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters.
Albus Dumbledore had been hard at work recruiting and bringing back old members, so much so, that the young boy had barely seen his grandfather around much.
When it came to his friends, Charlie, as harsh as it may have seemed, had only reached out to Hermione and Ron. Out of Dumbledore's request for keeping Harry Potter uninformed of anything regarding the Dark Lord, Charlie, Hermione, and Ron had only spoken briefly to theIr friend, out of fear of revealing something that they shouldn't — this would probably make Harry quite upset...
Nonetheless, earlier in the month, it was time for the new Order to reconvene at 12 Grimmauld Place for their first official meeting back. The Weasley's had arrived about three weeks after Charlie, and had been staying with him, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Nymphadora Tonks, and Alastor Moody ever since.
As for his father, Charlie made sure to keep true to his vow of silence about Fenwick being a Death Eater. However, when it was time for his grandfather to bring the old members of the Order back, Charlie subtly hinted that alerting his father about reforming the organization against Voldemort wasn't exactly the smartest idea. Luckily, Dumbledore didn't require any further convincing as he himself, wasn't planning on inviting Fenwick back into his secret society — with Julia gone, he didn't have the obligation to anymore.
Regardless, Fenwick still remained adamant on keeping tabs on his son more than ever before. He required daily check-ins from Charlie that would consist of a multitude of questions regarding the suspicious silence from Dumbledore, or reasons as to why his son was often away from the castle. Charlie was capable of coming up with very believable lies that would throw his father off the scent of the secret society rising — the less he knew, the better — and when it came to telling his father where he was, the brown eyed boy always said he was with the Weasley's —
