Re: Charlie/Hermione
"You asked how he was, Baron affects that." Charlie tried to reason, it had made sense when he'd said it - though maybe Hermione was right. This was not the time to be having this kind of self realization.
"How long?" Charlie asked, he wasn't considering it of course because there was no way Charlie could handle this kind of a job. But it could take years to settle this and Charlie wasn't getting stuck in something like this for that long.
He frowned when Hermione smiled at him, like she was just looking out for his best interests, but as she continued Charlie opened his mouth to respond and stopped. He was probably gaping at her but he thought that was probably the proper response when your sister-in-law was trying to extort you. "You are an evil woman, has anyone told you that? I cannot believe you're resorting to extortion to make me do this."