Bill Weasley

William Howard Weasley
Nicknames/Aliases: Bill

Occupation: Cursebreaker

Home: Abbey Wood ward in Greenwich, London. (1 story)

Finances: Lower middle class (since 2004)

Household: Fleur Delacour-Weasley (wife); german shepherd, Sekhmet

External
Appearance: Bill is a tall man, 6'3, but slouches and walks in a crooked manner that diminishes his height.. His hair is red with some grey throughout. His face is craggy on one side, with scarring that twists his right lip into a slight grimace. The scarring is offset slightly by the beginnings of expression lines. Appears slightly lost, but this deception is revealed by a sudden keen attention.

What is the first thing people think (or think of) when they see this character? I wonder what he's looking at?

Internal
Political Views: Libertarian. Bill will not discuss the government directly, but any comments he makes about modern magical politics are satirical. Bill believes that the Voldemort regime regulates too many individual freedoms and the Ministry needs to be dissolved and reconstructed featuring a stronger Wizengamot.

Quirks/Habits: Collects riddles. Has adopted a lifestyle which is almost entirely Muggle; will not use magic to clean his home; lives "green."

Strengths: Lives well both in muggle and magical culture. He is an adept amateur at many intellectual magical subjects, but is regarded as a field expert in cursebreaking, Egyptian hieroglyphics, and arithmancy as it applies to wards and cursebreaking. His combative magic is also excellent. Weaknesses: Does not know how to drive. Cannot keep plants, magical or otherwise, alive. Cynical and critical of strangers to his own detriment, but will overlook many faults of his friends/family- also to his detriment. Writes more than he speaks.

Fears: TBD

Philias: TBD

Hobbies/Interests: Contributing broadcasts to underground wireless network. Magical eavesdropping. Used books.

Favourite Belongings:His father's timepiece, wedding ring

Favourite Places: Hogsmeade and Hogwarts, but they are much altered since Harry's death.

Tinworth, Cornwall, where he had an early date with floor.

Egypt. Bill used to fancy moving back to Africa and raising children there.

Secrets: TBD

History
Bill's canon history through HBP is available on the Harry Potter lexicon. Bill was captured by Death Eaters fairly early in the war while working for the Order in France. He was imprisoned for a period of three months before he escaped. He was without a wand and lived in the slums of Paris for several months, speaking to few people, uncertain whether Death Eaters were looking for him. Unable to obtain information about the situation in England or his family, he finally returned to England in late 1999 and found the Burrow empty and the graves of his parents in the back garden. At that point he traveled back to London in attempt to discover what happened to the Order. Unaware that he was tailed from his parents home to the city, he was apprehended by Aurors on Knockturn Alley. Bill was arrested and jailed for a week in Azkaban, but was ultimately released and tagged by the Ministry. Denied a wand, his movements were tracked by Aurors and he was without ability to remove the spell from his person. The Ministry put him under a sort of house arrest, allowing him to live in London only so that he might be supervised. The charm meant that any person who attempted to contact Bill or remove the charm from him would surely be caught also. Determined, then, to keep the Order away from him, he managed to find a house of graduate students of Middlesex college who allowed him to share room with them. He had no papers or wand, so he worked in the library there first as a janitor, then as a junior archivist in an extremely unorthodox move by the head librarian who realised that Bill had an exceptional head for academics. This lasted until early 2004. Then, the Ministry contacted him and offered him a wand and a salaried position at the Ministry as a Cursebreaker because a unique crisis had arisen in Britain. Bill refused and was jailed again for several days. Ultimately, he accepted the position when it was made clear that war criminals (i.e. the Order and his family) were not being pursued as they once had and that the tag charm would be removed from Bill's person. He accepted the position and came back onto the "radar" of the magical world. At this period, he reunited with many of his family members, and also learned that his wife survived the war. They reunited in 2004 briefly, but Bill was forbidden to leave the British Isles and Fleur could not, at that time, leave France. He has worked simultaneously for the Ministry and the Order since his reappearance (though his contact with the latter is very discreet.) Fleur returned to London as of October 2008 where she now lives with Bill.