"She was a baby when I got her, if that counts," Charlie laughed, "but a Welsh Green hatched not too long ago, last month anyway. I've asked them to keep me informed about how both the mum and the baby are doing. It takes a lot of energy on the mother's part to make the egg and the commitment of incubation in order for it to hatch—" Charlie but himself off. He had been grinning without realising it as he talked about the dragon: an old Welsh Green they did not think was capable of laying. "I swear, Flint," he continued after giving Marcus an apologetic look, "someone can be thinking about a dragon and I'll give them a dragon's personal life story for twenty minutes."
Deciding that maybe they should stick with a common subject, Charlie shifted his weight a bit as he continued to walk around the Quidditch shop. "I have some burn scars, naturally. They're quite shiny, actually." Charlie held out his right arm, "it goes up a bit further since I wasn't wearing long sleeves," he said: a shiny burn extended from the top of his arm to a few inches above his elbow. "I've got other burns, though, a couple on my legs and a small on both my back and chest. When they tell you not to tend to the dragons without your shirt on, they mean it," he said with a smirk.
"And the students are all right," he said, looking out the window. "I'm not the only professor here, and it looks like a lot of them are heading back to the castle." Looking at broom kits, Charlie shrugged, "if they want to kill each other that badly, Flint, they can do it at the castle. There are more places to hide." Charlie liked that he and Marcus were able to relax around each other. Charlie had been tense in school when it came to Quidditch, being Captain, and being a Prefect for three years (plus, he had the twins to look after).
"You should fly with a dragon sometime," Charlie added offhandedly. "It teaches you a lot about fear on a broom, mainly that bludgers should be the least of your worries or not something to worry about at all. Since you're a chaser, that's a plus, really. Of course, I doubt you'll be in a match worrying that all of a sudden a Horntail is going to show up and set your broom on fire."