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PERCY WEASLEY || Harry Potter

The letter from Percy is such a great piece of work—because it IS so obnoxious and deluded and you keep wincing because it’s embarrassing as anything.

But it’s also undoubtedly stemming from the fact that Percy loves Ron dearly, and there’s a consideration to why he does it. He didn’t set out to be obnoxious—for Percy it’s downright sensitive. He specifically writes and sends it so Ron will get it at a time when he can read it in private and without any pressures from anyone else, and the threats Percy speaks about are…real for the most part. He has hold of the wrong end of it, but the problem and threat to Ron’s life and future…exists. There’s a kind of softness—after what has happened that summer—to Percy writing a letter where he titles himself Ron’s brother and actually apologizes for not seeing him more.

Which, btw, the fact that he thinks that’s at all a priority for Ron in this whole affair is perhaps the only delusion in the letter where I can feel NOTHING but empathy for Percy. He feels this responsibility towards Ron, and as much as it is easy for us to think, “he should know Ron is ready to kick him in the teeth for being a jerk”…god, it’s SAD that he really thinks to himself, “I need to make sure Ron knows that I CARE that I haven’t seen him.”

 He’s being an idiot, but he loves his brother. 

There’s also the subtle backtracking of what had seemed like a simple stance before—that Percy was leaving and he wasn’t a part of the family anymore. You can already see him starting to reshuffle what was declared and decided in anger, because NOW…it’s all very situational and he very much hopes that it will be resolved eventually!!! 

And I’m not sure he’s even conscious of that process, but it’s happening.

The conflict between his family and the government is still unnatural to him, and—probably because he needs to for his own emotional security—he assumes that it can be resolved. They’ll figure out and feel bad and he will be happy to reconcile with them! It’s arrogant and an asshole assertion, but it’s also…childish and naive. He hasn’t accepted reality—not just about Voldemort, but about what has happened and what is at stake with him and his family. What the Minister would DO to them given the chance—and there’s nothing Percy could do to stop him. The ignorance is astounding and frustrating, but reading it back knowing what happens…it’s also kind of devastating. Because the learning curve is coming, and it’s approaching at a high velocity. 

I just…I love the way Rowling constructed Percy, I really do. It’s not in vogue to compliment her, but I have to give credit where it’s due: it’s some of my favorite character work in the series. And judging by her little Skeeter quip in that World Cup piece a few years ago, I think it’s very intentional and always was.

 To some people in the Wizarding World, Percy Weasley is a nitpicking beaurocrat, and others will fervently assert that he’s “not that bad when you get to know him.” And WE get to know him—fans do it over and over and over again. And he warms, on a reread. He opens up. He becomes a person you can look at with a kind of fondness and understanding (accompanied by frustration and amusement, to be sure). It’s really…skillful and subtle what she manages. From a character who is himself about as subtle as a brick coming through a window. The writing and craft behind how she writes him is what carries the whole thing off. I love it.

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@percyprotectionnet​ post war au: in which percy attempts to start a festival, and not accidentally get into a relationship with oliver wood

“I am going to shoot myself,” Percy declares. It’s one in the morning, he’s currently drowning under a mound of paperwork, his glasses really need cleaned, almost everyone has already abdicated, and yet almost nothing has been done. “In fact, no, that’s too clean. I’m going to break that stone off the wall there and bludgeon myself to death with it, slowly, while suffering.”

“Might I recommend going to sleep?” Audrey says lightly from across the table; Percy raises his hands to his temples and massages them, putting as much pressure on as possible without hurting himself (though, to be fair, hurting himself would simply be an externalisation of what he’s feeling on the inside).

“I have to finish this,” he insists.

“Look, even if all of us stay here until morning, we’re not going to get it finished tonight. Just go to sleep, because then you’ll feel better and we won’t make any mistakes, and the Daily Prophet won’t kill us,” Lee grumbles; he can’t believe he’s still here at all, and is still questioning why he turned up for this job in the first place. He’s being paid tuppence. “Rita Skeeter is having some kind of vengeful comeback, so we need to avoid the bad publicity, or we’re all going to be having apparent emotional breakdowns by next week. And I might be gay again. And you might start dating Oliver Wood again.”

Percy groans; he’s never going to forget moving in with Oliver immediately post-battle and the ensuing Daily Prophet insistence that they were dating, and just the thought of it makes him get up, pulling on his coat. “Right. Okay. I’m going to get some sleep. I’ll be back tomorrow morning.”

“You say that as if you think I’m going to be here all night,” Lee scoffs; Audrey elbows him under the table.

“Well, I was hoping I would’ve instilled a better work ethic in you by now, Lee,” Percy says softly, “but I suppose that was a vain hope.” He smiles, and with a loud crack, he’s gone.

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“Open your hearts and find your wild.” -Atticus

Between Brothers

@percyprotectionnet creation event: post war

Summary: After the war, things between Percy and the other Weasleys are not exactly right, but for George family is more important than ever.

Words: 1k+

Rating: K

No pairings

(read it  on ff.net or under the cut)

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stars series: Oliver Wood ★  Percy Weasley

At thirty-six - married, climbing the Ministry ladder slowly and honestly, and raising two seven year olds - Percy thought he knew how the next ten years of his life would play out. 

That confidence is shaken in the best possible way one June evening when he’s woken in the middle of the night with Oliver’s fingers poking his ribs and his eyes wide and shining. 

“Perce. Perce. Perce.” 

“What?” Percy mumbles, reaching for his glasses. 

“Do you wanna have another baby?” Oliver asks. And with his husband’s huge brown eyes looking at him that way, and with the way he’s felt about children since holding his brothers in his arms for the first time at the age of two, who is Percy to say no? 

They whisper about it in the dark of that amber July night, and just over a year later, the adoption papers are signed for newborn Kenilworthy Ryan Weasley-Wood, Ken for short, who turns out to be the biggest adventure of Percy’s entire life. 

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Percy Weasley and Oliver Wood in the aftermath of the Battle of Hogwarts.  Because there is not enough Perciver art around.

I commissioned the lovely @sadfishkid to draw this wonderful piece (who I highly encourage you to commission and I’m sure I will commission again).

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