i wanted to practice some character design last week while i was doing some work! it's been a while since i craved to draw every single female character of the game and here it is :D! hope i didnt forget anyone
i also added some hcs like ravenclaw!rowan and hufflepuff!skye (they share the respective house of my mcs)
dont ask me for a male one i dont feel confident enough to draw male bodies 😭
I try draw all the friends characters is more than 30 so I can’t tag them all sorry Dobby, Hagrid and my big brother.
I still can’t believe this game can actually survive 5 years woヾ(●゜▽゜●)♡thank you HPHM for bringing Merula into my life.
2018/04/26 is also the first time I meet Merula.
And this year 2023/04/26 I also became a Twitch Partner When I drew this! It's just like Merula giving me a gift for our anniversary ヽ(o´∀`)ﾉ♪♬ Next year we'll be celebrating two things in one day!
Don't worry I'm still here loving Merula, I will post more drawings soon when I finish my Vtuber debut stuff." orz
I actually draw some little comic & ask on stream but just didn’t finish the translation yet. TuT too much things need to do.
BTW all my viewer know how much I love Merula ｡:.ﾟヽ(*´∀`)ﾉﾟ.:｡I feel happy that more people know our best witch ＼＼\\٩( 'ω' )و //／／hehehe
Feel free to come to visit me on twitch! Not really good at English but I will try my best to talk with you! ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
A/N: for @hphm-ship-week’s prompt “First Kiss”, here is Charlie’s.
Warnings: references to canon character death and mentions of loss/grief.
Though she wouldn’t have admitted it to anyone, Alanza’s first impression of Hogwarts had left her rather disappointed.
It wasn’t that the castle and grounds weren’t beautiful — they were, in their own way — but everything was rather devoid of colour, especially compared to the lush greens and rich golden hues of Castelobruxo. At Hogwarts, everything was muted, from the grey stone to the even greyer skies, from the crisp white snow to the inky depths of the Black Lake.
Tonight, however, on the evening of the Valentine’s Day Ball, the castle had bloomed. The Great Hall, along with its usual floating candles and ceiling that looked like the night sky, had been filled with paper hearts in every shade of pink and red imaginable, from the palest pastel to the deepest crimson, and each of the sash windows had been lined with roses. Even the students were brighter, dressed in their colourful dress robes and blushing as they were complimented or asked to dance by their dates.
Alanza herself had not been invited on the dancefloor yet, even though she did have a date. Charlie had yet to ask her if she wanted to dance. She was not sure why, exactly. Surely, dancing was the whole point of a ball?
But, maybe he did not like dancing, or he was just too shy to ask her — after all, she had been the one who had asked him to be her date, not the other way around. Or, maybe, he only liked her as a friend.
That would be disappointing if it were true. In the month Alanza had been at Hogwarts, she had developed an Erumpet-sized crush on Charlie. He was kind, and didn’t stare at her like the other boys did. She liked his friendly-looking face and his vivid red hair. He liked animals, and she had heard that he was a really good Quidditch player. Yes, this was the boy for her. If only she could be the girl for him.
She cast a look sideways at him as they stood to the side of the Great Hall, near the dance floor. He caught her eye and smiled, but said nothing. She tried not to sigh. After all, she should have been happy to just be Charlie’s friend. It wasn’t like she was having much luck making friends with anyone else. She had hoped that, by now, she would be firm friends with the girls in her dormitory, but it was still very awkward between them. Often they seemed upset, perhaps with her, though she didn’t know why that would be. Even when they weren’t upset, Penny and Tonks rarely had time for her, they were so busy revising for Potions, and though Chiara from the room opposite was very nice, she barely spoke to anyone, and as for Artemis…
Well, if the other girls seemed upset with Alanza, Artemis seemed to really hate her.
Alanza’s eyes drifted once more to the dancefloor. The other girls were right in the centre of it, dancing with that Ravenclaw girl Tonks was friends with. They all looked happier tonight than Alanza had seen them in all the weeks she had been at Hogwarts. Perhaps because she wasn’t with them.
A wave of loneliness crashed over Alanza, and she took a sip of her Butterbeer to hide the look of sadness on her face. Still, she must have not hidden it well enough, because Charlie turned to her looking confused and worried.
“You alright?” he asked her, voice raised over the sound of the music.
“Hm? Oh, yes,” Alanza lied. “I am having a very nice time.” She waved her hand vaguely at the room. “Everything here tonight is looking beautiful, I think.”
She was hoping that Charlie might tell her that she, too, looked beautiful tonight. He might have done, but before he could say anything at all, they were interrupted by a not-wholly welcome third party.
“Talking about looking beautiful,” said Diego Caplan, who had appeared out of nowhere to stand beside Alanza. “That dress really suits you, you know.”
The compliment might have come from the wrong person, but it was still a compliment. Alanza smiled. “Thank you.”
“A dress like that was made for dancing in. Want to go up there with me and I can help you show it off?”
“That is very kind of you.” Alanza glanced at Charlie. He was silent, his eyes fixed on the dancefloor, but she could have sworn that she had caught him shaking his head. “But, no. Charlie is my date.”
She smiled at her date, and he at her. He looked a little surprised, and grateful, too.
“Of course. No worries.” Diego’s smile wasn’t as friendly as Charlie’s. “I hope you two have fun.” He leaned across to talk to Charlie. “You really should get out there, mate. I mean, if they can get up and have a good time tonight there’s no excuse for the rest of us.”
As he nodded his head in the direction of the dancefloor, Alanza followed the direction of his gaze. He was looking directly at the girls from her dormitory. She wanted to ask him what he meant — why wouldn’t Penny and the other girls be having fun? — but Diego wasn’t done talking.
“Though, judging by that outfit,” he added, “Hexley’s planning on having a really good time tonight. It’s funny how some girls just go completely off the rails when—”
“Funny isn’t really the word I’d use, Diego,” Charlie cut in. His tone was abrupt, more so than Alanza had known it could be.
“Hey, I’m just saying…”
“The thing is, mate, I don’t actually care what you have to say.” Charlie shrugged his shoulders, which had grown suddenly tense. “Most of the time I just wonder when the hell you’ll shut up and stop being such a slimy git.” He turned to Alanza and told her, “I’m going outside.”
Alanza blinked. “Oh. Oh, okay.”
“You can come with me if you like.”
It wasn’t obvious whether Charlie was inviting her to join him because he really wanted her to come with him or if he was just being polite. It didn’t feel like he wanted her to come with him, but he wasn’t speaking in a very polite way, either. He seemed really angry for some reason. She had never seen him look angry before, and for some reason, she quite liked it.
Charlie was not tall, his legs were not long, but he strode out of the Great Hall with such speed that it took some effort on Alanza’s part to keep up with him in her heels. When they got to the courtyard outside, he placed his balled-up fists to his head and took one very deep and very loud breath. As he exhaled, he ran his hands backwards, fingers raking through his hair. Alanza frowned.
“Charlie, are you—”
“I’m alright,” he said. He shook his head and offered her a forced smile. “Sorry. I just had to get some fresh air, that’s all.”
The air was not so much fresh as it was freezing. Alanza had been warned that it would be cold at Hogwarts, but nothing could have prepared her for the biting chill of the British winter breezes. She shivered in her dress, and Charlie’s eyebrows furrowed.
“You don’t have to stay out here with me.”
Alanza took a step backwards. “You want me to leave you alone?”
“That’s not what… You’re cold,” said Charlie. “I don’t want you to think you have to stay out here just because I am. You can go back in, I’ll only be a minute.”
He seemed to genuinely care about her being cold. That was sweet, Alanza thought.
“The cold is not so bad if it is only for a minute,” she told him. “I will stay with you, if you do not mind.”
“Not at all.”
They sat side-by-side on a low wall under an archway, Charlie stock still, Alanza shivering. The cold was bad. Each second seemed to last an age, and Alanza could have sworn that not just one but several minutes had passed without them returning inside to the warmth of the Great Hall. After what felt like almost twenty minutes, but was probably only around twenty seconds, Charlie removed his jacket and placed it over her shoulders.
“Here. I’m used to this weather,” he said. He paused before adding, “Don’t you hate feeling angry at people? I hope you didn’t think it was you I was annoyed with.”
Alanza hadn’t thought that, not really, but it was nice to know. Especially seeing as…
“I think most people here are annoyed with me,” she admitted to Charlie.
“Really? Why?”
”I don’t know. I think I might have done something wrong.” Alanza sighed. “I think that is why I don’t have any friends here.”
“That’s not true,” said Charlie. Alanza raised her eyebrows at him. “Um, we’re friends. And Penny and that, they’re your friends, too, right? Penny said she was really looking forward to you all getting ready together earlier.”
Maybe he was just trying to cheer her up. But Penny was nice, and she had been the one to suggest them all getting ready together. Penny might have been busy a lot, but she did always try to make Alanza feel welcome. Tonks, too. Maybe they weren’t as annoyed with Alanza as she thought. But they weren’t the only ones in that dormitory.
“Charlie,” she said, “you are friends with Artemis, aren’t you? Good friends?”
“Yeah, really good friends. She…” Charlie blinked. “I think she’s probably my best friend.”
“Has she said to you why she hates me so much?”
“She doesn’t hate you.”
“She doesn’t like me.”
“Well, no.” Alanza hadn’t expected Charlie to be quite so honest. “But, if it’s any consolation, I don’t think she likes anyone at the moment.” He shrugged. “She’s in a bad place.”
“Why?” Her curiosity piqued, Alanza sat up straighter.
“I can’t really say.”
“Because it is my fault?”
She could have guessed before he shook his head that it probably wasn’t her fault, but at least her question got Charlie talking a bit more.
“Look, I can’t tell you anything that she wouldn’t want me to tell you because she’s my friend, and I don’t know everything myself, but… Well, basically, Artemis lost someone really close to her recently. If she hadn’t, then I don’t think she would be half as unfriendly as she has been. Normally, she’s not like that, not really. Normally, I think she’d really like you. And you’d like her, too.”
Alanza wasn’t sure how much she believed those last couple of sentences. She let out a low hum, and though Charlie almost laughed, he looked almost as tense as he had before leaving the Great Hall.
“I’m serious,” he said. “Trust me, she’s not herself right now. I’m pretty worried about her. Really worried, actually. And Diego saying stupid things like that doesn’t help.” He sighed and scratched the back of his head. “But, like I said, I don’t like getting angry. It’s not my… I just want my friend back, honestly.”
Charlie fell quiet once more. Alanza stared at him. He really did have such a kind face. She leaned towards him and smiled.
“I think it is nice, that you care so much about your friends,” she told him. “I really like that about you.”
“Really? Right. Thanks.”
He had stopped looking down at the floor and was looking at her now. Since she had leaned in, they were a lot closer than they had been, their faces were only centimetres from each other.
“I, er…” Charlie frowned and moved backwards. Alanza was disappointed, for a moment, but then he said her name. “Alanza?”
His voice was hopeful and nervous, and so was she.
“Yes?”
“I was just wondering, would it be alright for me to kiss you?”
Alanza laughed out loud, she was so relieved. As Charlie’s face fell, she realised that her laughter had been misconstrued. For a moment, she thought she should apologise, but actions always did speak louder than words. So, she leaned in and kissed him. It took a second for him to respond, but when he did, it was everything she had hoped for, if maybe just a little clumsier.
“So, yeah. I guess it’s alright, then,” Charlie said, once they had broken apart. Alanza laughed again, but this time, so did he.
“This has been more than a minute,” she told him. She picked up his hand and stood up. “Let’s go inside and dance. I am very cold.”
But, that was not true. As they walked back towards the door of the castle hand-in-hand, Alanza felt warmer than she had in weeks.
Ok, Charlie looks pretty great. Probably my favourite design next to Talbott. Also, at first, I thought that his necklace is the dragon scale we found in the “Egg Hunt SQ” in Y5. After all, we learnt from Fred and George in Y6 that Charlie still talks about it. Now that I look at it closely, it seems to be simply a dragon head, but I’m gonna assume Charlie made the necklace out of the scale anyway because you can’t stop me (and we know he’s a soft boy).
Alanza looks quite lovely, but I have to ask: what the hell is she even doing here? Like… Jam City, you lost your chance to properly use her character. Just let the poor girl out of this purgatory already!
And finally…
I suppose I don’t really have to say it, but once I unlock it, I’m never taking it off. (I probably will, but you know what I mean.)
