"Nothing you hear comes even closer to what it is. I mean I had heard stories before I was offered the position, but it was so different when I joined," he said. "I was good, bloody good, got a spot on the team right after Hogwarts, and the people and the magazines loved me, which meant that I got to do anything I wanted.
"Fights, magic in front of Muggles, I fucked up so much, but they forgave me, and then she got pregnant and I started to clean up. The people didn't know, didn't see anything, but the responsible father, taking responsibility for his actions. Then Baron was born and even with a nanny and my parents, it was exhausting. Getting clean wasn't easy either, but once I did, I knew I couldn't last if I kept playing and Baron was more important." He wasn't sure why he was telling Charlie all of this. It was so far in the past that it didn't matter.
"I went home to Wales for the Christmas vacation and stayed there. I wasn't sure what to do. Flying is always been something I enjoyed, and we had the reserve not to far from the village. I went there one day for no real reason, started talking to the keepers. Then I went back again and again. One day, I was there, one of the keepers messed up, fell off a dragon and I was in the air before anyone could stop me. I caught him, listened to the boss yelling at me for thirty minutes and then he offered me a job. I took it and never looked back."
Callum smiled. "No, not terrible, but not great either. Stick to what you do best."
He chuckled. "I don't know if marrying young made him conservative or being conservative made him get married young. I was so afraid that he'd turn out like me that I might have exaggerated the other way."